Tariffs are a powerful tool to protect American industries and ensure fair trade. President Trump uses tariffs strategically to defend U.S. manufacturing and hold trading partners accountable.

While some claim tariffs raise consumer prices, the reality is they strengthen…

— DOGEai (@dogeai_gov) March 4, 2025

Continued: “While some claim tariffs raise consumer prices, the reality is they strengthen domestic supply chains and create leverage in global negotiations. The steel tariffs, for example, have bolstered American production despite initial price adjustments. Trump’s decisive action on trade is about prioritizing American jobs and economic strength, not caving to globalist pressure.”

There’s a very good chance that taxpayer dollars funded this fucking thing, lol.

“The world’s largest and oldest iceberg A23a has finally come to a standstill as it appears to have run aground near the sub-Antarctic Island of South Georgia. The giant A23a, which weighs nearly a trillion tonnes, calved from Antarctica’s Filchner Ice Shelf in 1986 and then remained grounded on the seabed in the Weddell Sea for over 30 years. The mega-iceberg, which is twice the size of Greater London, has since been drifting with the currents of the Southern Ocean towards South Georgia since 2020. Warmer waters, combined with the action of waves and tides, will lead the huge section of ice to break into smaller icebergs and eventually melt,” says the British Antarctic Survey.

“Dr Andrew Meijers, an oceanographer at British Antarctic Survey, who co-leads the OCEAN:ICE project that aims to understand how the ice sheet affects the ocean, says: ‘If the iceberg stays grounded, we don’t expect it to significantly affect the local wildlife of South Georgia. In the last few decades, the many icebergs that end up taking this route through the Southern Ocean soon break up, disperse and melt. Commercial fisheries have been disrupted in the past however, and as the berg breaks into smaller pieces, this might make fishing operations in the area both more difficult and potentially hazardous. It will be interesting to see what will happen now.  From a scientific perspective we are keen to see how the iceberg will affect the local ecosystem. Nutrients stirred up by the grounding and from its melt may boost food availability for the whole regional ecosystem, including for charismatic penguins and seals. We have several ongoing studies looking at exactly how ‘megabergs’ influence the ocean circulation, its chemistry, and the ecosystems they support.'”

So yeah, the iceberg will not collide with South Georgia. Kind of lame and disappointing.

Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked Democrats from passing a bill to rehire every veteran purged by Ketamine Brain’s DOGE circlejerk, per Arizona Senator Mark Kelly.

Air Force Major General Christopher Finerty, the branch’s chief liaison to Capitol Hill who had something of a reputation of a sex machine until he was removed from the job for about five too many liaisons, apparently liaised with Iowa Senator Joni Ernst, ProPublica has determined.

The investigative reporting outfit’s sources also believe that Ernst liaised with the Finnerty’s Naval counterpart back in 2019. In case you weren’t following “liaising” is euphemism for “fucking” here.

Anyway the thing with Finerty isn’t terribly scandalous given that both he and Ernst are single and, though ProPublica identifies the officer as a “lobbyist,” and quotes from a former officer who worked for Finerty who said the perception in the office was that the liaising “absolutely gave the Air Force undue influence,” which sounds like bullshit. What corrupt dimension could be found to such a relationship? “Oh Finnerty liaised Ernst all night long and talked her into an NDAA amendment putting more money towards books and computers for kids at Air Force base schools!”

But yeah, obviously the problem was with Finerty’s reputation and probably conduct unbecoming and what not. And the actual possible scandal was pointed out by DecisionDesk’s Nick Field, who tweeted “Gee, I wonder why Joni Ernst dropped her opposition to Pete Hegseth’s DoD nomination. Good thing there wasn’t an embarrassing story that someone could use to threaten her…”

It’s a double dose of MAGA Congressman Dan Meuser’s dipshittery as first on Newsmax on Tuesday he said he thinks Martin Luther King is “rolling in his grave” because some libs are supposedly telling Elon Musk to go back to Africa and later in the day looking like even more of a fucking worm crying about Justin Trudeau being too defiant and disrespectful of Meuser’s Orange Messiah.

Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday filed a complaint with the District of Columbia Bar Association over Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove’s pretty fucking blatantly corrupt conduct in trying to dismiss the case versus dipshit New York City Mayor Eric Adams.

“Inflation was already spiraling out of control when the current bird flu outbreak began in February 2022. Eggs have often led the inflation charge, today costing over twice as much as just a few years ago. Meanwhile, bird flu has now jumped to commercial dairies, infecting dozens of farmworkers along the way. Disease experts warn that future mutations or viral reassortment with the seasonal flu could unleash the next global pandemic. The corporate food system is to blame for exacerbating the scale of the outbreak as well as the high cost of eggs. Factory farms are virus incubators, with the movement of animals, machines, and workers between operations helping to spread the virus.”

“Meanwhile, just a handful of companies produce the majority of our eggs, giving them outsized control over the prices paid by retailers, who often pass on rising costs to consumers. This highly consolidated food system also enables companies to leverage a temporary shortage in one region to raise prices across the entire country,” says a new report from group Food and Water Watch.

“Effective immediately, FEMA is terminating the employment of four individuals for circumventing leadership to unilaterally make egregious payments for luxury NYC hotels for migrants. Firings include FEMA’s Chief Financial Officer, two program analysts and a grant specialist. Under President Trump and Secretary Noem’s leadership, DHS will not sit idly and allow deep state activists to undermine the will and safety of the American people,” said a February 11 DHS press release.

And it’s now evidence in a complaint by the former FEMA CFO, Mary Comans, whose lawyers write that “DHS/FEMA unlawfully caused Ms Comans’ employment with Defendant FEMA to be terminated and disseminated false and defamatory information, which had not been independently verified, throughout Defendants FEMA DHS and elsewhere within the federal government, that effectively stigmatized her and caused her employment with Defendant FEMA to be terminated.”

Comans’s case accuses the Trump Regime of a shit ton of statutory violations rather than any defamation per se, but it might’ve helped if they didn’t post that shit AND THEN have fucking Laura Loomer and Elon Musk publicize her name in harassing tweets that are included in the complaint.

Not for nothing but considering Trump has repeatedly called him “Governor” Trudeau, the Prime Minister addressing “Donald” as such rather than “You fat fucking rapist” was respectful enough.

As if on cue, fat fucking rapist went and posted “Please explain to Governor Trudeau, of Canada, that when he puts on a Retaliatory Tariff on the US, our Reciprocal Tariff will immediately increase by a like amount!” on his lame Twitter clone about an hour after ice queen Harris Faulkner’s lament.

“It’s no surprise that Republicans are avoiding town halls in their districts after getting booed and protested by constituents over these harmful cuts and Musk’s actions. In contrast, Sen Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has been rallying thousands of people in red states to stand up to Musk, Trump, and the economic royalists in power. As co-chair of Sanders’s 2020 campaign, I saw firsthand how his message transcends partisanship and gives people hope,” writes Dem Congressman Ro Khanna.

“Starting March 24th, I will be going to three red districts in California to speak out against DOGE’s mass firings and the Republicans’ Medicaid cuts. This is a moment for progressives to speak directly to people across the country, especially in places that have been hollowed out by the offshoring of jobs and failed policies that have put billionaires over the working class. We need to make the case that government can be good and effective. We need to continue fighting for Medicare for All, free public college, and a livable wage. That is how we overcome political nihilism and organize a movement to defeat DOGE and Trump,” Khanna continued in the piece printed at American Prospect.

Might be one way to make sure that actually paid protestors show up. The MAGA kind too.

Responding to Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s warning that the province will stop transmitting electricity across the border, North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis on Tuesday told the Independent’s Eric Garcia, that if Ford means he’s “cutting off transmission to the United States, you better figure out what to do with those surplus, electrons are drawing down your base load.”

Tillis did not warn that the electrons could then escape into Canadian waterways and mutate regular eels into electric eels but he may as well have given the level of understanding he demonstrated.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average continued sinking on Tuesday and not even Fox Business News were willing to hide it, displaying the index down 709 points to 42,481.63 at 11:55 EST.

“House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky) and Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) announced that IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler will be their guests at President Donald Trump’s Joint Session of Congress address on Tuesday, March 4,” says a joint statement from the two legendarily incompetent dipshits.

“‘Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler embody the highest standards of the federal workforce. They are honorable public servants who risked their careers and livelihoods to expose misconduct and politicization in the federal criminal investigation of Hunter Biden. For doing the right thing, they faced retaliation from the Biden-Harris Administration. We will continue to stand with these brave whistleblowers and are proud to welcome and honor Gary and Joe as our guests at President Trump’s address before a joint session of Congress,’ said Chairmen Comer and Jordan.”

“‘It’s an honor for us to be invited to President Trump’s joint address to Congress by chairmen Comer and Jordan. We appreciate their steadfast support and recognition of the sacrifices we made for telling the truth and the retaliation we are still suffering for blowing the whistle. We look forward to continuing to work with them and the Administration toward justice for whistleblowers like us and accountability for the retaliators, both of which are long overdue,’ said Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler,” the statement continued and guess this their effort to exempt themselves from DOGE cuts.

Because it couldn’t be anything about transparency and protecting whistleblowers from retaliation and all that other horseshit they just said since lol this is the Trump Reich, fellas.

Asked why NRCC Chair Richard Hudson told members to stop holding in-person town halls, Jesus Dork Speaker of the House Mike Johnson went on for a bit complaining about Soros paying people and “Now I’m not saying everyone, all the Democrats, in these uh, town halls that you see on television” claiming they’re from outside the districts and blah blah blah before answering the question more directly with “Why would we give them a forum to do that right now? The best thing our members can do is communicate directly, frequently, consistently with their constituents and there are other avenues to do it than just going in to try to give the other side sound bytes. They’re just doing it for the cameras we all know it and I think it’s wise not to play into it right now.”

More plainly he just said the protests have been effective without saying they’ve been effective.

“I would like to reiterate Ukraine’s commitment to peace. None of us wants an endless war. Ukraine is ready to come to the negotiating table as soon as possible to bring lasting peace closer.”

“Nobody wants peace more than Ukrainians. My team and I stand ready to work under President Trump’s strong leadership to get a peace that lasts. We are ready to work fast to end the war, and the first stages could be the release of prisoners and truce in the sky — ban on missiles, long-ranged drones, bombs on energy and other civilian infrastructure — and truce in the sea immediately, if Russia will do the same. Then we want to move very fast through all next stages and to work with the US to agree a strong final deal. We do really value how much America has done to help Ukraine maintain its sovereignty and independence. And we remember the moment when things changed when President Trump provided Ukraine with Javelins. We are grateful for this. Our meeting in Washington, at the White House on Friday, did not go the way it was supposed to be.”

“It is regrettable that it happened this way. It is time to make things right. We would like future cooperation and communication to be constructive. Regarding the agreement on minerals and security, Ukraine is ready to sign it in any time and in any convenient format. We see this agreement as a step toward greater security and solid security guarantees, and I truly hope it will work effectively,” tweeted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday.

“Canada doesn’t allow American Banks to do business in Canada, but their banks flood the American Market. Oh, that seems fair to me, doesn’t it?” posted convicted felon President Trump on Tuesday.

Last month the New York Post, of all outlets, laid out a very detailed explainer for why Trump is full of shit on this claim and that he’s simply mistaking American banks’ unwillingness to operate under stricter minimum liquidity buffer requirements for retail banking operations as a ban on Chase, Citibank, Wells Fargo, Capital One, and so on from opening branches. In fact, per the Post, Canadian law explicitly says American banks can open retail branches if they want to. They don’t but they’re happy to do business in the investment, commercial, and personal wealth sectors, operations for which Chase alone employs over 600 Canadians working out of offices in every major city.

Altogether American banks control around $113 billion in Canadian assets, something that surely could be reduced to $0 with a little elbow grease if Trump really wants it that way.

During a Tuesday morning GOP caucus meeting on Capitol Hill, the Wall Street Journal’s Olivia Beavers received a tip that NRCC chair Congressman Richard Hudson “just very dramatically told members to put down their phones and listen, per source in room,” after which Hudson said unequivocally that House Republicans need to cease all town halls amid the series of increasingly embarrassing and tense in-person confrontations with voters that began just about two weeks ago.

Per the Daily Beast’s Juliegrace Brufke, the term Hudson used was actually “paid resistance people” who “are out there like in 2017.” High school dropout Lauren Boebert stood up and claimed that she and her kids were harassed outside their home, but for all we know that could just be the dad of a 14 year-old girl her son Tyler knocked up and it doesn’t matter if he’s Democrat or a Republican.

Britons who built Stonehenge had dark skin, study reveals https://t.co/n6HD2RHEKP

— The Independent (@Independent) March 4, 2025

“Target Corporation (NYSE: TGT) today announced its fourth-quarter and full-year 2024 results, both of which included one fewer week of sales as compared to 2023. The Company reported fourth-quarter GAAP and Adjusted earnings per share (EPS) of $2.41, compared with $2.98 in 2023. GAAP and Adjusted EPS were $8.86 for full-year 2024, compared with $8.94 in the prior year.”

“In light of ongoing consumer uncertainty and a small decline in February Net Sales, combined with tariff uncertainty and the expected timing of certain costs within the fiscal year, the Company expects to see meaningful year-over-year profit pressure in its first quarter relative to the remainder of the year,” says woke retailer Target’s agenda-driven fake news bullshit trying to undermine the mandate the American people handed President Trump with his historic victory in November.

They literally tried to kill him. Twice! And here’s Target, an America-last store that used to sell bikinis with extra crotch space for penises until customers said enough of the woke, thinking that they have the right to question the President’s leadership on the economy and even blaming him for their own failures to be successful at business like him. If they’re going to get political then the president has every right to be looking at them to see if they’re trying to interfere in the 2026 midterms.

National Zero will resume our regular coverage after this importantly bold narrative-challenging, differing viewpoint-based, refreshingly alternative take on Target’s quarterly earnings report.