Trump Never Cared about Reducing Prices
Trump's tariffs show that he never cared about reducing prices or the cost of living.

Donald Trump has no interest in pushing down the price of goods. While much of his presidential campaign was focused on the idea that he would bring down the price of goods, his administration’s policies show he will do anything but that. With his recent decision to enact tariffs against Mexico, Canada, and China, President Trump demonstrated that he was never serious about reducing the price of goods.
Tariffs Raise Prices
President Trump, in his infinite wisdom, decided that he not only needed to attack trans soldiers but that he needed to enact tariffs against some of the largest trade partners of the United States. On Saturday, Trump announced that the United States would implement tariffs against Mexico, Canada, and China. According to the Washington Post, goods from Mexico and Canada will be subject to a 25 percent tax. Mind you, the countries exporting the goods will not pay that tax. Rather, the companies that import the goods will pay the tax, inevitably raising prices. They, in turn, will pass the cost onto consumers. Period.
The justification for this policy faux pas was that the tariffs were intended to address these countries’ alleged failure to stop criminals and drug peddlers from entering the United States. On Friday, the President explained, “We’ve suffered with millions of criminals coming into our country, criminals, people from jails, from all over the world. They come through Mexico, and they come through Canada, too…”
This is nonsense, to be clear. There is no evidence that immigrants of any status are coming into the country from prisons or mental asylums en masse. Trump’s campaign also struggled to provide any evidence to support their claim, and other advocates for lowering immigration have struggled to find evidence. In the simplest of terms, there is no evidence of a massive, intentional wave of criminals.
Not that tariffs would assist if any of this were true in the first place.
What is more important here isn’t that Trump is lying—that much is obvious. More significant is that these decisions reflect the President's complete and total misunderstanding of how his economic policies will work.
It Was Never About Prices
Forgive me for this one moment of confusion, but if he doesn’t understand who he’s taxing, how can he possibly be the business-savvy President his campaign tried to portray him as? The fact remains that American people bought into a lie that Trump would help deal with prices and the cost of living and that his prejudical statements, such as the idea that Kamala Harris isn’t Black, were just a sideshow.
That wasn’t true then, and it isn’t true now. His prejudice and arrogance are the only things that Trump has. He will not improve American lives. Trump will not appoint well-established people into positions of power. He will do whatever he wants, and we will all pay the price.