Trump announces tariffs: Get ready to pay a lot more for everything

Trump voters supposedly wanted prices to come down – egg prices, somehow, became a flash point in our 2024 election.

The world sure is weird.

Good luck finding eggs at the grocery store with the Trump administration pretending that the avian-flu outbreak went away with the push of a button deleting the page on it on the USDA website.

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And now thanks to tariffs on Canada and Mexico that your guy is putting in place tonight at midnight ET, get ready yourself ready to pay a lot more for things like, oh, for example, fruits, vegetables, gas, electricity, new and used cars.

“Virginians want costs to go down, not up. But President Trump’s plans to impose broad-based tariffs would raise the price of everyday goods and hurt our economy,” said U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., who is trying the legislative route to fighting the latest Trump 2.0 nonsense.

Of course that approach isn’t going to work, not with Republicans holding slim, but there, majorities in the House and Senate, and Trump there with his Sharpie to issue a veto at the rim if the ball happens to get into the paint.

Twenty-five percent tariffs on goods from Canada and Mexico are in our near-future. That, plus the 10 percent tariff on goods from China, means higher prices on 40 percent of everything we buy.

Gas, for instance: analysts are suggesting a 50-cents-per-gallon increase in the near-term.

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• Gas prices are higher: But, but, but, Trump said everything was going to be lower

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It also means, since we can expect retaliatory tariffs in short order, that our exports in agriculture, computer chips and auto parts will take a big hit.

If this stupid trade war that Trump is starting for no good reason doesn’t end quickly, inflation, which is supposedly why White voters wanted the Democrats out – not DEI, trans kids getting gender-affirming care, the freedom to do a Nazi salute if that’s what your heart desires – is going to go through the roof.

“Trump ran on a promise to lower the cost of living — across-the-board tariffs on our allies are just going to make the problem worse. When these go into effect, a lot of things you buy are going to get way more expensive,” U.S. Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., said.

Which, I know, is perfectly OK with you – inflation is only an issue when a Democrat is president.

We’re in on the secret, that it wasn’t really about prices being high.