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| Trump's tariffs on China to rise to 104% overnight, White
| House says
| ... <https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/08/trumps-china-tariffs-104-percent/82995666007/>
Time to start smuggling iPhones from Canada.
Lots of good "fishing" on Lake Superior.
Trump's bragging "I know what I'm going", thinking he'll drive American businesses back to America.
More likely they'll make mewling noises (pledges) about building new
plants in America, and wait out Trump's term in office until a less insane president is in power.
Remember how, in his first term, Trump got conned by Foxconn?
https://wisconsinindependent.com/infrastructure/trump-promise-manufacturing-miracle-failed-foxconn/
On May 9, President Joe Biden traveled to Racine, Wisconsin to announce a
plan by Microsoft to build a $3.3 billion data center. The White House said
that it expects the project to result in 2,300 unionized construction jobs
and 2,000 permanent jobs in the area.
The site selected by Microsoft is the same site where, in 2017,
then-President Donald Trump announced a $10 billion investment by Foxconn
for a manufacturing facility. By 2021, Foxconn abandoned most of its plans
and never delivered on promise to bring 13,000 new jobs.In his remarks
at the ceremony, Biden chided Trump for his failure to deliver during
his time in office.
“He and his administration promised a $10 billion investment by Foxconn to
build a new manufacturing complex and create 13,000 new jobs. In fact, he
came here with your senator, Ron Johnson, literally holding a golden
shovel, promising to build the ‘eighth wonder of the world,” Biden said.
“Look what happened. They dug a hole with those golden shovels, and then
they fell into it.”
The failure of the Foxconn facility is part of an overall downward trend in
manufacturing that occurred under Trump’s administration.
In 2020, Trump said that his policies had led to a “manufacturing miracle,”
but according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the United
States lost nearly 200,000 jobs on his watch. By comparison, over 700,000
manufacturing jobs have been added since Biden took office in 2021.
Biden! :-D
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