President Shitshow’s First 100 Days; Day 57

March 19, 2025 12:44 pm EDT Tiff Editorial (Open Thread) Comments Off on President Shitshow’s First 100 Days; Day 57

It’s Wednesday…

President Shitshow’s public schedule for…

Wednesday, March 19 2025
9:00 AM
In-Town Pool Call Time
The White House 
In-Town Pool
11:00 AM
The President receives his Intelligence Briefing
Oval Office
 Closed Press
1:00 PM
Press Briefing by the White House Press Secretary
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 
On Camera

Tariffs are Coming…

Unless something changes over the next fourteen days, President Shitshow’s 25 percent tariffs on autos from Canada and Mexico are coming; I know I don’t need to say it, but that means a car in America that comes from Canada and Mexico will cost the US consumer 25 percent more than it costs today.

From the article:

Holding out for a bargain on your next car purchase or a major repair? Don’t, experts say.

President Donald Trump’s 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum took hold last week, and the monthlong reprieve he offered U.S. automakers from his 25% tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada ends April 2, threatening to drive up costs for vehicles and auto parts in coming weeks.

“There is no way you’re going to see a better discount if you wait three months,” said Ivan Drury, director of insights at Edmunds. “That’s guaranteed.”

[snip]

Many drivers are already stressed about potential car purchases. The share of consumers who expect to be rejected for auto loans hit 33.5% in the latest New York Federal Reserve survey, the highest in its 12-year history. People in the market for new North American-built vehicles could also face an availability crunch, experts say. A recent forecast from S&P Global Mobility predicted regional production could drop by as much as 20,000 units per day within a week of the Canada and Mexico tariffs’ taking effect.

NBC News. 03/18/2025.

Here is the part that stuck out to me:

There’s not much U.S. consumers can do to mitigate the ripple effects, industry analysts said, given the broad-based nature of the tariffs and the chill they threaten to create among automakers. But it will help to know where your vehicle is made and which components are imported versus manufactured stateside, Drury said. He suggested consumers keep on hand the American Automobile Labeling Act report, a document the Transportation Department publishes annually that lists every vehicle model along with the origins of its composition.

“It should give somewhat of a guidance, because you cannot assume the badge on the hood matches your expectation [of] where it’s made,” Drury said. “There’s no vehicle where every single component is manufactured from the ground up in the United States.”

NBC News. 03/18/2025.

I saw this tweet before I saw the NBC News tweet…

From the article:

“I am concerned about manufacturing as a whole this year because people can’t afford to buy groceries, so people aren’t going to buy a $70,000 car,” said a local UAW leader. “I am telling my people to start saving their money. Dealers are down 50% on sales and inventory is stacking up. I think manufacturing as a whole this year will be down.”

This union leader, like the others who will speak in this article, asked to not be named because they are not authorized to speak publicly on such sensitive topics as politics, tariffs and the economy.

[snip]

The UAW leader doesn’t need a study to tell him what he sees when he regularly walks the factory floor. His members are worried. They approach him with fears that a shift will be eliminated, which would mean layoffs. He said he reassures his members that tariffs can redirect manufacturing to the United States, which would be a good thing.

But he’s also realistic. To build a new factory takes billions of dollars and several years. In fact, Ford CEO Jim Farley told investors last month that even though carmakers are seeing “a lot of cost and a lot of chaos” from Trump’s tariff threats, Ford will not be building new plants in the United States any time soon.

Right now, labor costs amount to about 4% of the price of a vehicle, but adding more U.S. labor to production could raise that by 2%, this union leader said. The added costs, whether it be higher-priced U.S. labor or added tariffs, could mean higher new car prices at a time when affordability is already a problem for many consumers.

[snip]

Other global tremors add to the anxiety stateside. On Monday, Volkswagen announced it would cut 7,500 jobs at its luxury brand Audi in Germany by 2029 because of “immense challenges” as Germany’s auto industry deals with slowing demand for electric vehicles and rising Chinese competition, according to Reuters.

Moody’s analysts said the cuts reflect the broader challenges facing the global auto industry.

“This move underscores the pressure traditional automakers face from the need for significant investments in electrification and the rapid rise of Chinese auto manufacturers, which are taking increasing amounts of global market share,” said Michael Brisson, auto economist at Moody’s Analytics, in an email. “Additionally, with potential tariffs looming from the U.S. in the coming months, automakers are bracing for further market uncertainties.”

Detroit Free Press. 03/19/2025.

I had hoped we’d be able to purchase a new car this year. That’s unlikely to happen, still possible if inventory stacks and doesn’t move as we head into the end of the year.

I’m not wishing for a recession, but signs are pointing toward a recession.

sigh.

Welcome to Trade Wars 2.0.

Happening in the Courts…

Yesterday, President Shitshow posted this on “Lies Social”.

I wrote this yesterday; This judge and other judges are not saying that these people are entitled to be, deserve to be, or will remain–here, they are saying that the administration has to follow the law.

No Judge has argued that an admin, this one included, can’t deport people. They are saying there is a process in place to protect rights of all people in the US., that means this admin, and other admins must follow the process to remove “murderers, and other criminals” from the country.

Speaking of the flights sent to El Salvador…

Here are the Judge’s questions…

Show more =’s a link to the motion to stay the March 18th order.

Chief Judge James Boasberg has given the DOJ another day…

In other deportation news…

Pg. 5 of the courts order:

The CONCLUSION pg. 32., in part:

This attitude is how come we can’t have nice things…

Show more =’s It’s very gracious of us to give him anything. And we can give him a free ride back to wherever he’d like to go.”

Narrator: Sigh.

Racking up more court loses, yesterday a Judge has halted a ban on transgender person(s) in the military.

The ruling is 79 pages long.

This is the heart of the problem for President Shitshow (I recommend that you read the first 5 pages, because regardless on your personal feels on the subject the issue is once again, the admin’s inability to present reasonable arguments before the court.)

They basically want to ban transgender people because they want too. Not because the transgender person is not worthy of service.

I’m sharing pages 4, 5, and 6 (in part) below; spoiler alert:

It’s truly a problem when you can’t defend your policy, especially using a study that’s 8 years old, and two more studies that support the opposition.

Even though I’m late with the post and should stop now, people keep presenting me with more stupidity to share…

The other day, I shared this other stupidity in a comment section…

We are being run by idiots.

This is an open thread

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