Contrasting convicted felon President Trump’s Truth Social posts from Saturday, when he lost his shit at Walmart and demanded they “EAT THE TARIFFS” after their leadership announced that they’ll be raising prices, and one from last year when he lost his shit over Kamala Harris pledging to prevent price gouging, the Wall Street Journal’s op-ed team on Sunday decided to tempt his wrath again by writing “Mr Trump’s flip-flop on price controls is a rebuttal of his own previous tariff claims. For months he’s said that foreign producers pay the full cost of tariffs. But now he’s admitting that Walmart, an American retailer, will have to eat some of the costs or pass them on to Americans.”
“Despite his business background,” the Journal continued and just need to stop there and hope that they’re trolling backhandedly because lol, what fucking “business background”? He got hit with a half a billion judgment for fraudulent valuation practices and that was AFTER what, seven bankruptcies? He was, is, and will always be a fucking two-bit con artist. Anyway… “Despite his business background, Mr Trump doesn’t know much about retail. Walmart’s net profit margin is below 3 percent, so it doesn’t have much room to absorb the higher costs caused by tariffs. Retail competition is intense, and Walmart’s longtime comparative advantage has been lower prices.”
“Mr President is telling a company how to run its business, along with a vague, implicit threat of retribution. Marxist? How would Mr Trump react if Congress told him how much his family could charge for a Mar-a-Lago fee? Mr Trump is trying to duck the political fallout for his misguided tariff policy by blaming everyone else. Americans are too smart to fall for it,” the Journal concluded their brief screed and they proooooooooooooobably could have left off the last sentence there.
At least maybe take a wait-and-see approach on that. Could go either way. Like 50-50 on how it’ll shake out. Less uncertain is whether the fat fuck’s gonna respond on Truth Social. That’s pretty likely to happen at some point in the next few hours. Not a lock, but a safe enough bet.