Tuesday, April 01, 2025

lunatic tariff announcement day

Trump has declared tomorrow to be “Liberation Day,” the day he announces, and apparently imposes, sweeping tariffs on the rest of the world. Aside from Trump and his circle of true believers, almost everyone thinks the policy will be a total disaster.

But why did he pick April second for his big tariff day? He seems to like to announce new tariffs at the beginning of the month, why not today? I’m guessing the only reason is he doesn’t want his bone-headed widely unpopular tariffs to be portrayed by the media as an April Fools joke. April 2nd will be Liberation Day only because Trump is so thin-skinned he can’t handle his main, arguably only, economic policy to be called the joke that it is.