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May 9, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump’s Supposed U.K. Trade Deal Gets Trashed by Surprising Person
Even the far-right knows Donald Trump’s deal is garbage.
May 9, 2025
Malcolm Ferguson
Trump Gives China Major Tariffs Concession Before Talks Even Begin
Donald Trump is so desperate to get a trade deal with China that he’s already backing down.
May 8, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Vance Just Made Trump’s Dolls Comment Even Weirder
JD Vance took Donald Trump’s comments to an even more nonsensical place.
May 8, 2025
Timothy Noah
The Big Winner of Trump’s Much-Hyped Trade Deal Is ... Not the U.S.
It’s a great day to be an Anglophile. But the global economy is still on the verge of a ruinous trade war.
May 8, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump Exposes Own Idiocy With Comment About Looming Shortages
Donald Trump had a mind-blowing defense for the pending supply shortages.
May 8, 2025
Malcolm Ferguson
Trump Admits He’s Wildly Exaggerating Benefits of U.K. Trade Deal
Trump’s trade deal with the United Kingdom isn’t even official yet.
May 8, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump Melts Down Over Federal Reserve’s Five-Alarm Warning on Economy
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell warned that there was a high risk of stagflation.
May 7, 2025
Marin Scotten
Ford Hikes Car Prices Thanks to Trump’s Reckless Tariffs
Consumers are already seeing the costs of Trump’s trade war.
May 7, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump Treasury Sec. Says Kids Need to Suck it up for Greater Good
Scott Bessent defended Donald Trump’s doll comments, saying it would be for the greater good.
May 7, 2025
Greg Sargent
Trump’s Rants About Young Girls’ Dolls Just Got Weirder and Darker
Who actually wants to work at a Barbie doll factory in America, anyway?
May 6, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump Accidentally Admits He Hasn’t Made Any Trade Deals
Donald Trump has continually insisted that deals over his tariffs are coming.
May 6, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Canada PM Gives Trump Middle Finger on Wild In-Person Statehood Pitch
Donald Trump pitched statehood to the man who was just elected by campaigning on rejecting statehood.
May 6, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump Trashes Canada Just Minutes Before Prime Minister Visits
Donald Trump continues to insist that Canada needs the United States.
May 6, 2025
Malcolm Ferguson
Trump Treasury Secretary Crashes When Asked Easy Question on Tariffs
Scott Bessent glitched as he tried to answer a question about the real costs of tariffs.
May 5, 2025
Kate Aronoff
The Democrats Could Learn a Lot From Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum
The wildly popular president of Mexico is advancing industrial policies that resemble Joe Biden’s, but they’re premised on a totally different theory of politics.
May 5, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Here’s Where Trump Got His Idiotic Idea to Tariff Foreign Movies
Someone close to Donald Trump planted the idea in his head that the United States should tariff foreign movies (whatever that means).
May 5, 2025
David S. Abraham
How the United States Lost the Rare Earth Materials War to China
Chinese dominance in this critical sector of the economy did not happen by accident—it was a policy choice.
May 1, 2025
Hafiz Rashid
Even Trump Officials Are Hoarding Supplies Thanks to His Tariffs
People connected to Trump are afraid of the consequences of his trade wars.
May 1, 2025
Malcolm Ferguson
GM Pours Cold Water Over Trump’s Tariff Claims With New Prediction
General Motors predicts Trump’s tariffs will cost billions.
May 1, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Stephen Miller Crashes Out Defending Trump’s Weird Dolls Comment
Donald Trump told parents to offset tariff-induced cost increases by not buying so many toys for their kids.
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