This past week's commentaries
Hope you’re having a great weekend.
Below are some of my commentaries from this past week if you need to catch up on a chaotic week 2 of Trump’s presidency:
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Hope you’re having a great weekend.
Below are some of my commentaries from this past week if you need to catch up on a chaotic week 2 of Trump’s presidency:
Following is a quote from an AP article (The Daily Gazette, 2/2, p. A10): “Trump promised to end the fighting (in Ukraine) within six months of taking office.”
This is a lie of omission, a failure to point out Trump’s campaign promise. Here is the truth about what Trump promised during the campaign. It is evidence that the AP is in Trump’s pocket:
"As the war in Ukraine approaches its fourth year, there is a collective feeling of exhaustion across the country.
A lot of people are asking: when will it end?
While campaigning last year, US President Donald Trump repeatedly declared he would end the war ‘in one day.’
‘I know [Ukrainian President Volodomyr] Zelenskyy well. I know [Russian President Vladimir] Putin well. I would get that ended in a period of 24 hours,’ he said in an interview with British broadcaster GB News last May.
‘One hundred percent, it would be easy. That deal would be easy.’” https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-29/what-trump-presidency-could-mean-for-ukraine-war-putin-zelenskyy/104822998
The Trade Expansion Act of 1962 gives the president the ability to raise tariffs on imports that pose a threat to national security without the approval of Congress after an investigation by the Department of Commerce. Threats to national security include “fostering U.S. dependence on unreliable or unsafe imports” or “fundamentally threatening the ability of U.S. domestic industries to satisfy national security needs.”
Trump’s tariffs are going into effect this Tuesday. Did the Commerce Department investigate whether or not Trump’s tariffs were necessary according to the standards of the 1962 law? If not, why hasn’t this been reported on?
I believe Trump is doing what he promised, moving towards replacing income tax revenue with tariffs, regressive taxes that burden the less well off far more than the wealthy.