Trump announces 25% tariffs on foreign-made cars
Posted By: Dreadnought, 3/26/2025 5:45:51 PM
President Trump on Wednesday said he will put a 25% tariff on automobiles imported into the U.S., escalating his administration's use of aggressive trade measures in an effort to boost domestic manufacturers. After White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the tariffs would be detailed at a 4 p.m. EST by Mr. Trump, Wall Street shuddered, with the S&P 500 tumbling by 1.2% in late afternoon trading. Because tariffs are taxes on imports that are largely passed onto U.S. consumers, they can cause households to cut back on spending and dampen economic growth, according to experts.
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I think a lot of people are fond of "Star Trek" in its many iterations over the years.
But it's hard to top the original version.
So, when William Shatner became the oldest person to go into space in 2021, at 90 years old, with Blue Origin, it was an incredibly cool thing. While others were playing around with the weightlessness in the short flight, Shatner was captivated by the sight of space, and seemed very touched. Someone asked him recently about Elon Musk and going to Mars. Shatner then got a lot of attention by saying that the future is bright, and he believes Musk "represents the future."
During an interview aired on Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” DOGE’s Elon Musk said that the department tries to keep Congress “as informed as possible” on what it’s doing “But the law does say that money needs to be spent correctly. It should not be spent fraudulently or wastefully. It’s not contrary to Congress to avoid waste and fraud. It is consistent with the law and consistent with Congress.”
Host Bret Baier asked, [relevant exchange begins around 5:00] “[T]he process still involves Congress, right, at some level?”
Musk answered, “We try to keep Congress as informed as possible. But the law does say that money
After launching investigations into the diversity, equity and inclusion policies and practices of Comcast and Verizon, the Federal Communications Commission is setting its sights on Disney next.
FCC chairman Brendan Carr told Punchbowl News he’s putting the “finishing touches” on a letter to the ABC parent company. He declined to reveal which specific DEI initiatives he was concerned with, but said the letter would outline similar concerns raised with Comcast and Verizon and “whether they’re engaged in any of this sort of DEI discrimination that could run afoul of our EEO rules or potentially our public interest standard.”
“We’re going to get to the bottom of everything that is ongoing
Want to get Academia's attention? A president has three options, all within his executive authority:
Cut off grants and other federal research monies
Aggressive use of Title VI, VII, and IX investigations to ensure proper compliance
Sever income streams from abroad via visa management
You could add "tax endowments" to that list, but that would require Congress to act. As Donald Trump is demonstrating, a president can use the three steps above to make universities and colleges know he's serious about cleaning up campus unrest, especially that fomented by terrorist organizations abroad. According to Axios' Marc Caputo, Trump has already begun planning Step 3:
The Trump administration is discussing plans
Megyn Kelly, Riley Gaines Celebrate Trump’s
Comments About Women And Trans-Identifying Men 5 replies
Comments About Women And Trans-Identifying Men 5 replies
Megyn Kelly and more celebrated President Donald Trump’s comments about how transgenders can never be women, no matter what they do.
Speaking at the Women’s History Month event in the East Room of the White House, Trump pointed to the Executive Order he signed that the United States will only recognize two genders.
“For four long years, we had an administration that tried to abolish the very concept of womanhood and replace it with radical gender ideology … Under the Trump administration, we’re ending the Marxist war on women,” Trump said. “No matter how many surgeries you have, or chemicals you inject,
Despite the unrelenting attacks on President Trump--or, perhaps, among Republicans BECAUSE of those attacks from the Pravda Media and the Democrats--President Trump's approval rating is bouncing back.
According to YouGov, the swing has been pretty dramatic--a 7-point swing in approval since their last poll.//snip//There IS one group that is getting increasingly angry and desperate, and that is left-wing Democrats who are watching both their financial lifeline and their electoral prospects crumble. They are angry, mobilized, and ready to do anything to stop the bleeding and inflict damage on the Republican Party in general and Trump in particular.
A really heartrending article in Bloomberg this afternoon caught my attention.
My goodness - a cri de coeur of such plaintive appeal and bereavement that I had to think twice about sharing it with you, tender-hearted friends, knowing what it might do to your gentle selves.
But here's the headline anyway, as I know you're made of sterner stuff than your average bear and can handle the cruelties of the world.
Years of Climate Action Demolished in Days: A Timeline
Sad, no?
Trump's been in a mood, and the Green weenies are feeling assaulted by the speed at which 47 moved when he hit the Oval
Nearly two weeks ago a federal judge in California, William Alsup, ordered the Trump administration to rehire thousands of probationary government workers who had been fired in February as part of a government downsizing effort. That ruling applied to six agencies: Veterans Affairs, Defense, Energy, Interior, Agriculture and Treasury.
Later the same night a second judge in Maryland ordered the rehiring of even more probationary employees at a different collection of agencies.
The agencies covered by U.S. District Judge James Bredar’s sweeping order, issued Thursday night, include the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Labor, State, Transportation and Treasury,
Does the Protection Racket Media need a "reality check"? So said Harry Enten, CNN's estimable polling analyst, yesterday after looking at the most recent polling. The media still covers Donald Trump by assuming his unpopularity, even after winning both the Electoral College and the national popular vote in November.
Not only is Trump at his most popular these days, Enten says, Americans feel better about the country's direction than they have in years. And Democrats hoping to score a rebuke against Trump in the 2026 midterms might need a reality check of their own:
President Trump on Wednesday said he will put a 25% tariff on automobiles imported into the U.S., escalating his administration's use of aggressive trade measures in an effort to boost domestic manufacturers.
After White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the tariffs would be detailed at a 4 p.m. EST by Mr. Trump, Wall Street shuddered, with the S&P 500 tumbling by 1.2% in late afternoon trading. Because tariffs are taxes on imports that are largely passed onto U.S. consumers, they can cause households to cut back on spending and dampen economic growth, according to experts.
Supreme Court Upholds Biden Regulation
Subjecting ‘Ghost Guns’ to Same Rules
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Subjecting ‘Ghost Guns’ to Same Rules
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The Supreme Court upheld the Biden administration’s regulations on “ghost guns” Wednesday, finding that guns assembled using at-home kits are subject to the same rules as traditional firearms, including requirements that they carry a serial number and that purchasers undergo a federal background check before buying them.
The justices ruled 7-2 in Garland v. VanDerStok to preserve rules imposed by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms in 2022 to combat what the government called an explosion of “ghost gun” usage in criminal activity. Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented.
There's been a flurry of executive orders today (Tuesday), some already raising the ire of the Left and so-called watchdog groups who don't want their grifts to go away. Looking at you, Stacey Abrams. This Executive Order, Modernizing Payments To and From America’s Bank Account, appears to be passing under the radar; or maybe everyone is just too weary to care.
Here's the skinny:
Effective September 30, 2025, the federal government will no longer issue paper checks for any disbursements, including Social Security and other benefits, vendor payments, or IRS refunds. All agencies and executive departments must transition to a form of electronic funds transfer to make and receive payments.
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As Robert F. Kennedy Jr. settles into his role as President Donald Trump’s health secretary, one major promise he’s made is still on table - banning pharmaceutical ads.
Kennedy has been a longtime critic of the promotion of drugs on TV, and others high up in Trump’s cabinet and advisorship have agreed in recent months.
Drug advertising on TV
The backstory:
Up until the mid-1980s, pharmaceutical companies gave information about their products only to doctors and pharmacists. Later that decade, some drug companies began giving the general public more direct access to the information, according to the FDA, leading to the advertising that we see on TV today.
The CIA claimed to have confirmed the existence of the Ark of the Covenant by way of remote viewing — aka extra sensory perception or ESP — alleging the mysterious and sacred object is guarded by “entities” with an “unknown” power, a recently resurfaced declassified document claims.
In a remote viewing session on Dec. 5, 1988, remote viewer #32 was tasked with identifying a target that, unbeknownst to them, ended up being the storied Ark of the Covenant, according to document, which was declassified on Aug. 8, 2000, and has been circulating on social media.
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, says hundreds of illegal aliens “should have been afforded the right” to deny that they are associated with the Tren de Aragua or MS-13 gangs before they were deported from the United States by President Donald Trump’s administration.
As Breitbart News reported, Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act to begin deporting hundreds of illegal alien gang members with Tren de Aragua and the MS-13 gangs, both of which are now designated as terrorist organizations.
Judge James Boasberg held a hearing on Thursday afternoon in the lawsuit filed against Trump Administration officials for their use of the double-encrypted app Signal.
As previously reported, the left-wing watchdog group American Oversight filed a lawsuit against John Ratcliffe, Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard, and others, claiming their use of the Signal app violates the Presidential Records Act.
American Oversight boasts about its ‘activist litigation’ targeting Republican interests, especially the Trump Administration.
Now they’re suing Trump officials for using Signal to communicate about ‘military actions.’
According to Jeffrey Goldberg, National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio,
An ATV-riding Texan was a massive problem to Tesla owners when he allegedly rammed his 4-wheeler into multiple cars during an unprovoked hit-and-run spree on Tuesday.
Demarqeyun Marquize Cox was arrested after one of his alleged attacks was recorded by the Tesla he purposely ran into, police in Texarkana, Texas announced.
The 33-year-old allegedly spotted the electric vehicle sitting in the parking lot of a Golden Palace Chinese buffet while its owner having lunch inside the restaurant.
KTBS
Cox loaded back and rammed head-on into the side of the red Tesla, according to video obtained by KTBS.
The 5-foot-2, 449-pound driver left noticeable damage to the front driver-side door,
A popular manufacturer of coolers and insulated drinkware is facing criticism and calls for a boycott after it canceled a conservative women’s group’s order for mugs featuring their logo, which it had no problem fulfilling last year.
The nonprofit Clare Boothe Luce Center for Conservative Women was disappointed when YETI refused to fulfill the order for the group which describes itself as “an all-women organization that specializes in the conservative outreach, education, and mentorship of young women.”
In a series of posts to X, the CBL explained that their order for the green mugs bearing their name and a Statue of Liberty logo was rejected by the company,
Ontario Premier Doug Ford Vows to “inflict
as much pain as possible on the American people” 13 replies
as much pain as possible on the American people” 13 replies
President Donald Trump talks about placing tariffs on Canadian goods. Ontario Premier Doug Ford talks about “inflicting as much pain as possible on the American people.” See the difference? Tell me again how the term “snowmexicans” is insulting. (snip\ Doug Ford doesn’t quite understand that tariffs on steel, aluminum and auto imports are not part of the “reciprocity” tariff regime. They are an entirely different category classified under national security directives to ensure American industrial capacity.
(snip) Doug Ford might want to consider the end of this continuum that finds the word “embargo”(snip)Perhaps President Trump would consider elevating the conversation to “reciprocity” in the banking
Seven establishment Republican senators opted to anonymously attack Vice President JD Vance, earning critiques from the likes of Donald Trump Jr., who concluded that these are the same “cowardly neocons” and “genuine p*ssies” who have “constantly trashed” his father, President Donald Trump, over the years.
These establishment senators voiced their frustrations “privately” to the Jewish Insider. According to the outlet, they pointed to the remarks Vance made in the leaked Signal group chat via The Atlantic, taking issue with the vice president’s “suggestion … that the Houthis are more of a problem for Europe than the United States and his voicing of doubt that it was
Despite the unrelenting attacks on President Trump--or, perhaps, among Republicans BECAUSE of those attacks from the Pravda Media and the Democrats--President Trump's approval rating is bouncing back.
According to YouGov, the swing has been pretty dramatic--a 7-point swing in approval since their last poll.//snip//There IS one group that is getting increasingly angry and desperate, and that is left-wing Democrats who are watching both their financial lifeline and their electoral prospects crumble. They are angry, mobilized, and ready to do anything to stop the bleeding and inflict damage on the Republican Party in general and Trump in particular.
A DHS official was placed on leave and may have their security clearance revoked for ‘accidentally’ adding a reporter to an email chain about an upcoming ICE raids in greater Denver area.
According to NBC News, a DHS worker included a Washington-based reporter in an email chain detailing an upcoming ICE raids back in January.
The email did not include classified material, however, the information was still considered sensitive because it detailed time, location and target of raids.
The DHS worker called the reporter and told them that they were ‘accidentally’ added to the email. The reporter promised to disclose any information. The raids were conducted without incident, NBC News reported.
Republican senators are debuting a measure on Thursday to abolish the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), which they say has "intruded into the privacy and personal space" of Americans.
Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, is leading the bill alongside Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala.
"The TSA has not only intruded into the privacy and personal space of most Americans, it has also repeatedly failed tests to find weapons and explosives. Our bill privatizes security functions at American airports under the eye of an Office of Aviation Security Oversight, bringing this bureaucratic behemoth to a welcome end. American families can travel safely without feeling the hands of an army of federal employees,"
A third German shepherd owned by former President Joe Biden attacked security and landscaping staff while he was vice president, the Secret Service has revealed.
“Champ” was so threatening that agents and outdoor staff were warned to stay away from the second family’s yard when the dog was out, and, failing that, they were advised to yell the dog’s name as he charged because he sometimes stopped when called.
What’s more, the attacks became so regular that the family would shut off the automatic doggie door of the residence in the U.S. Naval Observatory facility when security was on the spacious grounds.
The new reports of attacks were released by Judicial Watch today