The Pathetic Legacy Media is Caught Lying Yet again About Trump’s New Tariffs

The failing and corrupt liberal press just doesn’t get what is happening in the media today. While these pathetic individuals were able to largely control the narrative in the 1990s and before then when the media was far more centralized, the strategy of trying to manipulate people with false stories no longer works. There are many different online and other sources for the country to get reliable information today, the left’s strategy of trying to manufacture the consent of the people for a failed agenda by puhsing narratives and reporting fake stories and false narratives is over.

There is no issue the Democrats and the party’s left-wing allies in the media have lied more about since Trump’s second term began than the President’s smart and targeted use of what are largely reciprocal tariffs. The 47th President is tried of Europe and much of the world ripping the US off, he is simply asking for fair and equal trade agreements. Since Trump came into power, the failing legacy media has constantly lied and tried to suggest these tariffs are inflationary, a tax, and that prices will likely skyrocket. These are all obvious and clear lies.

Trump used tariffs in his first term and there was nearly no inflation. From 2017 to 2021 the average rate of price increases was a very low 2.6 percent. Biden also refused to take any of the tariffs Trump imposed on China off even when inflation skyrocketed during the former President’s failed term as President. The hypocritical and pathetic legacy media said absolutely nothing about Biden’s decision to leave tariffs on even while prices were rising significantly in large part because of the reckless spending by his corrupt administration. The left’s claim that these individuals are concerned tariffs will be a tax on middle and low-income individuals is equally nonsensical, since these individuals all support raising taxation levels on businesses and individuals, even with prices still high. The fact that no a single Democrat or leading media figure on the left thought eliminating the tariffs Trump put in place and Biden maintained was a good idea even when inflation was out of control shows these individuals have zero credibility to now suggest that the President’s new reciprocal tariffs would be inflationary.

The reality is that Trump’s tariffs will not raise prices significantly for multiple reasons. First, many companies do not rely on the markets being impacted by the President’s tariffs, so if the businesses that are affected try to increase prices consumers will have plenty of cheaper choices. Second, the whole purpose of these tariffs is a leverage play by Trump to negotiate new and better trade agreements on behalf of the country. The President is not using these measures as a long-term strategy, he’s focused on forcing countries to come to the negotiating table. A good example is Canada. The US imports a number of goods from Canada that mostly is done to subsidize our northern neighbor, American industry is easily capable to replacing this production. Also, one of the main purposes of Trump’s economic policy is also to incentivize companies to increase investments in the US over the long term so America can again begin to grow manufacturing and rebuild the middle class. The recent decision by the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company to invest $100 billion in the United States shows Trump’s policies are again effective.

While certainly, there will likely be some modest and short-term price increases in a couple of industries heavily reliant on countries and markets impacted by Trump’s new tariffs, there is no logical reason to believe there will be any significant or prolonged increase in prices. The President has made clear that he is tired of the US getting ripped off, the long-term benefits from renegotiating these trade agreements will far outweigh some of the potential and minimal near-term consequences of Trump’s actions. The left and the failing legacy media keep trying to gaslight and lie about Trump’s policies across the board, but the President continues to deliver for the American people, and the result here should be not be any different in this case.