So here’s the ‘deal’ for tariffs.

England gets to incur 10% on all goods imported to America, because we’ve been ripped off for so long and cheated and it should be 19.7%, based on the refusal to accept chlorinated chickens and toxic Texas beef and the fact that they impose a 20% tax on all American imports. They call it V. A. T. But whatever you call it, it’s there to persecute Americans. Oh, they charge it on British goods too? Whatever. It’s punitive, it stops Londoners buying our fabulous range of cars. Unfairly. Makes them uncompetitive. You can buy an English car, like a Toyota, for £20,000 and it is totally wonderful. Whereas an equivalent Chevy will cost £25,000, whilst looking like shit, handling like an oil tanker on stormy seas, struggling up any hill and containing more plastic than the recycle centre. That’s not “re-cip-ro-cal”.

For Charna, I’m being very considerate by charging those fuckers 34%. They charge us 67%!!!! Well, as calculated by some very clever people I use over near Harvard. Not ‘in’ Harvard, but pretty close. And these guys are bright, I can tell ya’, and they told me that factoring in rice and the inflated cost of chop-sticks in Charnatown, its 67%. And we’re only charging them half. To be re-cip-ro-cal. Re-cip-ro-cal.

Vietnam gets hit with 46%. I hate those fuckers and they made us spend all that money in a war back in Kennedy’s day, so it’s payback time. And Cambodia too! They get 49% because… because I can, I want to, and who’s gonna stop me?

This will make the world a fairer place to do business. I get that the reality of it is that these are taxes on Americans for buying overseas shit. They’ll pay it. The government gets it and we become great again. Rich again. Other than the guy who just bought a Range Rover, he’ll be much poorer, but he ain’t my problem. If you want zero tax on cars, build ‘em here!!! I told Giorgia Meloni, you wanna build Ferraris in Wyoming?, they won’t pay a tariff.

And all those doom-mongers out there in the Democrat and communist press, they’ll see that these moves will make everyone’s lives better. Everyone’s. In the whole world. Except possibly, the retired, the working, the living, some of the dead, those who hold shares, pensions, savings, those who were broke before and anyone going to Morecombe on their holidays. But this will MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!!!!

Happy reciprocal Thursday

D.J.T. xxxx