I knew the demented bastage was going to do more but what he's done is beyond the pale. A new slate of tariffs to replace the ones that expired, 10 to 12.5% on over 60 of our "top trading partners" and covers 99.4% of US imports they are using a 1974 rule called Section 301 that relates to "forced labor" and declared after a months long investigation, this is the result. Note, analysts have already called out that several of the allegations Trump and Bessent have called out are completely untrue, they are just saying all these countries use forced labor. Meanwhile he continues to deal with Qatar and Saudi Arabia both of whom DO used forced labor.
When we were in Siquijor this year one of the people working for Lucys mom is a Filipina who had previously worked in Saudi Arabia as an in house worker. She's 32 now so this was hin her late 20's to early 30's. When she got to SA they took her in, and then immediately took her passport and told her how much they had spent to fly her in and that she had to pay that off before she could get her passport back. At some point while there a friend of the family she worked for had felt so sorry for her they helped get her passport and give it back to her and then helped get her a flight out of SA. She literally left in the middle of the night, she's since come to find out this happens fairly often in Saudi Arabia. This is the country Trump is dealin with because they gave his company a deal for 2 properties and gave him a ton of money.
He is an absolute POS, worst human being in my lifetime. 2025 his dumb tariffs cost the average household about 1700, this year it's estimated to be over 2500 with 3 different tariffs having been used, the EEPA ones until ruled illegal, then the ones that just expired, now the new ones.