🧨 The Price of Performance: Trump’s Tariff War Is an Attack on the American Public

Let’s stop pretending this is about economics.

What we’re watching unfold isn’t trade policy—it’s political performance art. And like most of Trump’s stunts, it’s loud, reckless, and designed to hurt the very people it claims to protect.

This new wave of tariffs? It’s not about jobs. It’s not about China. It’s not about “winning.”

It’s about control—of the narrative, of the headlines, and ultimately, of the people who will bear the brunt of its consequences: working-class Americans.

💰 Tariffs Are Taxes—And We’re the Ones Paying

Trump wants to call this “economic liberation.”

But let’s be clear: this is a tax on everyday life.

When he slaps a 60% tariff on Chinese goods, it doesn’t hit billionaires.

It hits the single mom buying school supplies.

It hits the retired couple trying to afford their meds.

It hits families already drowning in inflation who now get to pay even more for everything from groceries to car repairs.

And the kicker? He’s pitching it as patriotism.

As if struggling to afford baby formula is a small price to pay for “America First.”

Let’s not confuse branding with strategy. This isn’t a plan—it’s a performance.

🏭 Manufacturing a Myth: The Lie of the Revived Factory

Trump keeps promising a return to the golden age of American manufacturing.

But the truth?

These tariffs aren’t bringing back factories—they’re bankrupting small businesses that rely on imports.

They’re squeezing farmers whose equipment just got way more expensive.

They’re wrecking supply chains that never fully recovered from the pandemic.

And while CEOs scramble to figure out what they can afford to keep producing, Trump’s base is fed soundbites.

Not solutions. Not support. Just slogans.

🎭 The Spectacle Is the Strategy

This has never been about helping the economy.

It’s about feeding a narrative: that Trump is the only one “fighting for America,” and everyone else is the enemy.

It’s the same story, over and over:

Manufacture a crisis, declare yourself the savior, then blame the fallout on immigrants, Democrats, China—anyone but the man in the mirror.

Meanwhile, he’s turning trade policy into a cultural wedge issue.

If you’re against tariffs, you’re “anti-American.”

If you question the logic, you’re “soft.”

It’s not just economic malpractice—it’s psychological warfare.

He wants people to feel punished and proud at the same time.

That’s the game.

And too many are falling for it.

📉 We Deserve More Than Slogans

What this country needs isn’t more posturing—it’s protection.

From predatory markets.

From inflation that hits poor families hardest.

From leaders who gamble with livelihoods to boost their polling numbers.

We need an economic strategy rooted in reality, not revenge.

We need to stop mistaking noise for leadership.

Because Trump’s tariffs aren’t about building anything—They’re about breaking faith.

Breaking trust.

Breaking the fragile economic threads that too many Americans are barely hanging onto.

⚠️ The Warning Is Loud. Is Anyone Listening?

If we let this stand—this version of politics where cruelty is rebranded as strength—we’re not just losing money.

We’re losing the plot.

We’re watching a man throw grenades into the economy so he can stand in the smoke and pose like a hero.

But this isn’t a movie. There’s no post-credits scene where everything magically gets fixed.

There’s just us—struggling to afford groceries, wondering why our jobs just got harder, and trying to make sense of a system that keeps handing us the bill for someone else’s ego.

This isn’t leadership. It’s vandalism.
And the longer we call it anything else, the more damage it does.