'We're All Dead': GOP Senator Reacts To Trump Tariffs

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Source: Huff Post

Apr 3, 2025, 02:55 PM EDT


Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) wasn’t concerned enough about President Donald Trump’s steep international tariffs to vote against them Wednesday — like some of his GOP colleagues — but did scold staunch supporters of the policy with a dire warning to multiple outlets. “In the long run, we’re all dead,” he told CNN’s Manu Raju on Capitol Hill for “The Lead with Jake Tapper” on Wednesday. “Short run matters, too. Nobody knows what the impact of these tariffs is going to be on the economy.”

Trump dubbed April 2 “Liberation Day” and announced a sweeping 10% baseline tariff on all imports to the U.S., with levies on dozens of countries set even higher. He repeated his false claim Wednesday that foreign nations, rather than Americans, will shoulder the costs.

Only four Republican senators Wednesday — Rand Paul (Ky.), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and Susan Collins (Maine) — joined Democrats in voting against the emergency powers Trump is using to impose a 25% tariff against Canada. Kennedy did not, but reiterated his concerns in a Newsmax interview later that day.

“What the president is saying is, if you want to sell stuff to Americans, move your business to America and hire Americans and contribute to our economy, don’t just sell stuff,” he told anchor Rob Schmitt. “In the long run, he’s right. But in the long run, we’re all dead.”

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These dumbasses think that a manufacturing plant can "instantly" appear in a few months or a year. It may take them a year or two just to plan/design something like that, then start costing it out and getting the contracts together. So you are looking maybe 3 - 5 years if you are lucky.

And this -

“What the president is saying is, if you want to sell stuff to Americans, move your business to America and hire Americans and contribute to our economy, don’t just sell stuff,”

That's NOT in any part of the GOP business mantra that emphasizes "free trade". You people brainwashed everyone into demanding and implementing "free trade", and people warned you about all the "outsourcing" and "offshoring", but you people ignored that because "cheap labor" enhanced the "bottom line" (and profits).