Cover up

Watching Trump administration lackeys do backflips on television frustrates Lawrence O'Donnell. No one is more articulate or blunt about the president's monumental stupidity and here he tries once again to explain why tariffs are going to drive the US economy into the ground.

When Amazon's Jeff Bezos thought he might separately show the added tariff amount to the consumer, the administration panicked and told him to stop realizing that despite their electorate being sufficiently spellbound by their cult programming, they would finally realize that China doesn't pay tariffs on the goods they export. Nazi Barbie Leavitt was shortly thereafter on a presser trying to confuse people once again and blaming Bezos for even considering such a thing. 

The Amazon chief having already sold his soul dutifully complied.

There are already slowdowns at American port of entries as tariff amounts are being calculated and applied but soon there will be decreased shipments as companies cancel orders because their business model no longer works at those higher prices. As Lawrence states here, some smaller companies are already consulting bankruptcy lawyers in anticipation of what could happen to their businesses.

I am no longer surprised by stupidity at such high levels but watching a bloated and impossibly more orange faced Trump incoherently slur his way through an interview about China "eating" the tariffs, I ask myself how his overall approval rating can still be as high as 39%.

Maybe when store shelves start to empty? God only knows...