By John Q. Hosedrinker 
During a press conference, President Trump appeared unaware that the deadline for tariff negotiations had been extended to August, stumbling when asked about the original July 9th deadline. While fielding questions, Trump stated that “tariffs are going to be the tariffs,” but Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick corrected him, clarifying that tariffs would go into effect on August 1st. This extension comes despite the White House’s initial promise of completing “90 deals in 90 days” by the July deadline. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell indicated that the central bank would likely have lowered interest rates if Trump had not announced his tariff plan.
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Old Man Trump Massively Fumbles Basic Question About His Own Tariffs
It’s quite something, isn’t it? You’ve got the former President, a man who built a significant part of his political brand on trade and, specifically, on tariffs, completely whiffing on a straightforward question about them. A reporter simply asked about the effective dates of these tariffs, a seemingly elementary query, and the response was… well, it was something.
The initial reaction was a simple, “What are you talking about?” followed by a repetition of the question. The answer? A rambling stream of consciousness that somehow involved dates but failed to clearly address the core inquiry. Instead, we got the now-infamous phrase, “They’re gonna be tariffs. Tariffs are gonna be the tariffs.” It’s almost comical in its incoherence. Forget concrete dates or details; the answer was a word salad, a linguistic shrug of the shoulders that did absolutely nothing to clarify anything.
Thankfully, or perhaps ironically, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick had to step in to provide the actual answer. This highlights a critical point: the man at the center of it all, the one who made tariffs a cornerstone of his political identity, couldn’t actually provide the basic information. This isn’t about policy disagreements or different economic viewpoints; this is about a demonstrable failure to understand the very specifics of a policy he championed. It is a classic example of cognitive decline.
The fact that this incident occurred is quite telling. One can’t help but wonder if this would be a major scandal if it was anyone else. The level of criticism would be at maximum, and demands of enacting the 25th amendment would be everywhere. The silence, or at best muted reaction, from certain quarters is a stark reminder of how political biases can influence the perception of such incidents.
Moreover, this event raises legitimate questions about the former president’s fitness for office, and it goes hand in hand with concerns about the potential return of such a person to a leadership position. The inability to answer a simple question about a core policy platform suggests a level of detachment or cognitive decline that should be cause for serious consideration. “Tariffs are gonna be the tariffs” might be a good soundbite, but it’s a terrible response when you’re the one who implemented the tariffs in the first place.
This failure also opens the door to larger questions about the team around him. Who is really setting the policies? Are the supposed leaders being undermined by those around them, for their own purposes? This all brings us to the role of interest payments in far right politics. As the debt continues to rise, the only cuts become in the non-defense spending that such factions hate the most.
The media is complicit in the fascist takeover, not a blip. This man is declining HARD. He’ll be a vegetable within a year, at this rate. The truth is that the former president is not coordinated, he can’t do more than one thing at a time, and he can’t form a coherent sentence. Instead, this person is making easy money and having people fellate his ego, while the bosses use him as a public face.
Perhaps it is not a surprise that this person can’t answer a basic question. How can anyone possibly understand business beyond bully tactics is beyond me. The reality is that Trump is still an idiot, and doesn’t know what he’s doing. This is highly deserved.
Looking at the wider picture, this stumble underscores a broader point about the current political landscape. There are discussions about whether the media is giving fair attention to the mental acuity of all sides, or if a double standard exists. All we know for sure is that a basic fumble that anyone else would get crucified for is met with yawns.
The entire situation is indicative of a wider problem of who is pulling the strings. You know how he keeps saying Biden was just rubberstamping decisions the people around him made? You know how every Trump accusation turns out to be a confession? The answer is that the tariffs are the tariffs.