Trump Goes After Toy Maker Mattel

Newsweek reports Donald Trump Threatens To Stop Barbie Dolls Being Sold in US

President Donald Trump has threatened to place a 100 percent tariff on Barbie maker Mattel, after the company’s CEO said it would continue to manufacture outside the U.S. but would be reducing its reliance on Chinese imports.

“I’ve heard [Mattel] said: ‘Well we’re going to go counter, we’re going to try going someplace else,’ ” Trump said in the Oval Office on Thursday. “That’s OK, let him go, and we’ll put a 100 percent tariff on his toys, and he won’t sell one toy in the United States, and that’s their biggest market.”

Better Off With No Barbies

Also consider Girls Need to Be Told Having Fewer Dolls a Good Thing.

During a Cabinet meeting last week, the president acknowledged that the ongoing trade dispute with China could see fewer toys on store shelves.

“You know, somebody said, ‘Oh, the shelves are going to be open,’” Trump said. “Well, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls, you know? And maybe the two dolls will cost a couple of bucks more than they would normally.”

The toy industry in particular, given its outsize reliance on Chinese imports, has expressed concern that should the tariffs remain in place, shoppers could face significantly higher costs and product shortages as far off as Christmas.

During a Cabinet meeting last week, the president acknowledged that the ongoing trade dispute with China could see fewer toys on store shelves.

“You know, somebody said, ‘Oh, the shelves are going to be open,’” Trump said. “Well, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls, you know? And maybe the two dolls will cost a couple of bucks more than they would normally.”

Watch Bessent Struggle With a Simple Question

That is beyond pathetic.

Please play the video. Bessent is shockingly stupid in his reply.

He knows the answer but instead lies for Trump stumbling over his words, totally unprepared for the obvious question.

Movies, a National Security Issue

Please note Movies Are Now a National Security Threat, 100 Percent Tariffs Announced

Just when you thought national security threats could not get any stupider … Trump says Hollywood ‘dying’; orders 100% tariff on non-US movies to save it.

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Also note Consumers Face End of De Minimis Tariff Exemptions on $800 Packages

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Hooray!? 40% to 100% Higher Prices

Who wants that? (Exclusions for cultist parrots who cannot think).

The idea we are going to bring shoe or clothes manufacturing back to the US (or that we would like the price result if we did) is of course ludicrous.

Irony of the Year

Yesterday, Trump posted on Truth Social “CLOSED MARKETS DON’T WORK ANYMORE!!!”

For discussion of the irony of the year, please see 80 Percent Tariff on China ‘Seems Right’ Says Trump, But It’s Nearly as Stupid

An 80 percent tariff is nearly as stupid as a 145 percent tariff because most trade with China would still stop. Trade might stop at 50 percent.

And it is US consumers who pay that tariff, not China.

After ranting about “closed markets” yesterday, today Trump insists Barbie dolls be made in the US.

You can’t make this up.

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