Trump Is Living In A Fantasy World That Reality Can’t Penetrate

Donald Trump claimed during his Meet The Press interview that other countries are absorbing the cost of the tariffs and that businesses are NOT passing the costs along to consumers. However, a new survey of businesses shows that more than three-quarters say that they are passing the costs onto consumers. Trump is living in a fantasy world where everything he does is perfect and smart, but reality is telling us something very different, as Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

As part of his interview from this past weekend on Meet the Press, and I promise after this, I'm not talking about that interview anymore, but it was significant. So we have to discuss parts of it. But as part of the interview, Donald Trump proudly proclaimed to meet the press, uh, moderator Kristin Walker, that other countries are absorbing the costs of the tariffs. Now, that is exactly what he said. These countries that he has put tariffs on are, quote, absorbing the costs of the tariffs. They are not, he added being passed on to American consumers. Now, that is obviously a lie. Anybody that has shopped for literally anything in the last couple weeks knows your prices have gone up. It doesn't matter if you're shopping in person at the grocery store, if you've gone to Walmart, or if you're going to Target, or if you're shopping on Amazon or anything in between, including shopping at local, small businesses.

Prices are going up. Businesses have admitted we are raising prices. If we haven't already, we're gonna be doing it in the next week or two. It is happening across the country, across industries. It is happening, but Trump insists it's absolutely not happening. That's, that's make believe this man is so dangerously delusional with his mental illness that he is now trying to suck us all into his alternative reality. Telling us in explicit terms, ignore the evidence that you see with your eyes. Ignore what you are actually experiencing every day, because that's not real. He's telling us what is real. However, are the fantasies that I am selling to you when I put 145% tariff on goods from China, China pays that 145%. It's not the companies that import the goods. That's just crazy. People talk, but he is trying to suck us into his delusions. And for the record, in case maybe you haven't experienced price increases in your shopping, which good for you. That's awesome. Let me go ahead and tell you what the businesses are saying. There's a new survey, uh, survey, excuse me, this week from Apollo Global Management. And in this survey of businesses, the vast majority of them said that we are passing cost increases through to consumers.

That that's their response to the tariffs. They said, we're passing cost increases through to the consumers. So they're admitting it. They're saying like, yeah, prices

Have gone up for us and therefore prices are going up for consumers. It's what we do, it's what we're gonna keep doing. Trump claims the tariffs. Well, one of the reasons he says the tariffs are in place is to bring back manufacturing to the United States. Well, in this Apollo survey, only 11 companies, not 11%, only 11 companies said they're gonna bring their manufacturing back to the US 11. So nothing that Trump has said about the trade war that he launched is true. None. Nothing that he has said is happening is actually happening in, in fact, literally everything Trump has said about the trade war, the opposite is happening. He says, these countries are making deals. No, they're clearly not. He says, these countries are absorbing the costs. No, they're obviously not. Consumers know it, and the businesses importing the goods know it, and they're being very open and upfront about the fact that we are gonna make consumers pay the difference. So anything Trump tells you about as trade war is a lie, but it's not just a lie to cover up his failures and his stupidity. It's lies that are designed to suck you into that alternative reality so that you can deny the evidence you see around you and go live in a fantasy land with Donald Trump as the dictator.