President Shit’s First 100 Days: Day 100…

May 1, 2025 12:08 pm EDT Tiff Editorial (Open Thread) Comments Off on President Shit’s First 100 Days: Day 100…
Bubble wrap. Photo by Moja.

It’s Thursday…

The article made it to day 100!

President Shitshow’s public schedule for…

Thursday, May 1 2025
8:00 AM
In-Town Pool Call Time
In-Town Pool
8:30 AM
Press Briefing by the White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt and Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller on Restoring Common Sense
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 
On Camera
11:00 AM
The President participates in a National Day of Prayer Event
Rose Garden 
Pre-Credentialed Media
12:00 PM
The President receives his Intelligence Briefing
Oval Office 
Closed Press
2:00 PM
The President participates in a Swearing-In Ceremony for the Ambassador to the Italian Republic
Oval Office 
Closed Press
3:55 PM
Out-of-Town Pool Call Time
Out-of-Town Pool
5:00 PM
The President departs The White House en route Joint Base Andrews
South Lawn 
Open Press
5:10 PM
The President arrives Joint Base Andrews
Joint Base Andrews Out-of-Town Travel Pool
5:20 PMThe President departs Joint Base Andrews en route Tuscaloosa National AirportJoint Base Andrews Out-of-Town Travel Pool
7:15 PM
The President arrives Tuscaloosa National Airport
Pre-Credentialed Media
7:25 PM
The President departs Tuscaloosa National Airport en route the Coleman Coliseum at the University of Alabama
Out-of-Town Travel Pool
7:35 PM
The President arrives the Coleman Coliseum at the University of Alabama
Out-of-Town Travel Pool
8:00 PM
The President delivers remarks at the University of Alabama Commencement
Pre-Credentialed Media
8:55 PM
The President departs the Coleman Coliseum at the University of Alabama en route Tuscaloosa National Airport
Out-of-Town Travel Pool
9:05 PMThe President arrives Tuscaloosa National AirportOut-of-Town Travel Pool
9:15 PM
The President departs Tuscaloosa National Airport en route Palm Beach International Airport
Out-of-Town Travel Pool
10:50 PM
The President arrives Palm Beach International Airport
Palm Beach International Airport 
Pre-Credentialed Media
11:00 PM
The President departs Palm Beach International Airport en route Mar-a-Lago
Palm Beach International Airport 
Out-of-Town Travel Pool
11:15 PM
The President arrives Mar-a-Lago
Mar-a-Lago Out-of-Town Travel Pool

To continue the first 100 days celebration week, Nazi Stephen Miller and Press barbie yelled at the press; I think it was the new media mixed with old media…

He told us that “children” will now be taught to “love America”…

Show more =’s So as we close the Dept of Education and provide funding to states, we’re going to make sure these funds are not being used to promote communist ideology.”

Blender friend and founder Lenny Ghoul once told me, “forced patriotism =’s fascism.

He was right than and he is right now.

A reporter asks about GM saying they can’t promise they won’t raise the prices on autos as a result of President Shit’s tariffs…

WSJ (gift link) said this morning:

General Motors GM 1.90%increase; green up pointing triangle cut its outlook for 2025 to account for a $4 billion to $5 billion dent in profits from automotive tariffs, despite President Trump’s decision to walk back some of the levies.

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The decision, which Trump issued in a pair of proclamations Tuesday as he traveled to Michigan for a rally, means that automakers paying Trump’s automotive tariffs won’t also be charged for other duties, such as those on steel and aluminum or those imposed on Canada and Mexico due to the fentanyl trade. The move would be retroactive, meaning that automakers could be reimbursed for such tariffs paid since some tariffs on Canada and Mexico went into effect in early March.

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The 25% tariff on finished foreign-made cars went into effect last month. Trump’s tariffs on China, however, will continue applying on top of auto and parts tariffs.

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The auto sector is among the U.S. industries most vulnerable to Trump’s trade war. About half of new vehicles sold in the U.S. are imported and thousands of parts that go into American-made vehicles are also made outside the country in places such as Mexico, Canada, Korea and China.

For GM, one of the U.S.’s biggest importers of vehicles, the tariffs are expected to have an outsize impact, adding to the challenges facing longtime Chief Executive Mary Barra.

WSJ (gift link). 05/01/2025.

Before his rally on Tuesday, President Shitshow who understands the economy zero, issued a pair of proclamations in the hopes to soften the blow to the auto industry.

No worries small businesses you’re getting a large tax cut; the largest in history, so you will survive the tariffs war of 2025…

Show more =’s MILLER: The relief for small businesses is gonna come in the form of the largest tax cut in history.

These are from my bookmarks this morning…

The article isn’t exactly paywalled; you have to give them your email address to read it for free. You get 3 free articles.

When Dan Turner of Turner Hydraulics ordered a custom product for a U.S. steel mill from a Chinese manufacturer back in January, he was expecting to pay a 25 percent tariff on the $49,000 product when it arrived this spring at a port in the United States.

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Just days after the custom product shipped, Trump announced China would face minimum tariffs of 145 percent, but the rate can vary by product. Turner is now expecting to pay significantly more than a 145 percent tariff when the item, currently somewhere on a container ship in the ocean, arrives. 

“So we are having to pay an $84,000 tariff on a $49,000 item,” Turner told The Dispatch in an interview. “We’re just hoping either the ship sinks or somebody comes to their senses before it hits the dock.”

Trump insists that tariffs are “going to make our country very rich,” and White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed last month “tariffs are a tax cut for the American people.” But Turner’s story and others like it exemplify the reality that tariffs are indeed a tax paid by Americans—businesses and consumers alike. “It’s going to take away from our resources. We’re going to borrow money from the bank, and that’s not what our business plan was for this year. We were planning for growth,” Turner said.

He looked into canceling the order and returning the product to China, but concluded that would cost the company $10,000 more than simply paying the tariff. “It’s not like we ordered a container load of sunglasses, and we can just add $1 on each set of sunglasses. This was completely paid for by both parties before it ever shipped,” he said. The particular product Turner ordered from China is a hydraulic accumulator that can store energy: In case of a power outage, Turner said, a hydraulic accumulator allows steel-mill workers to manually tilt a kettle of molten steel so the kettle isn’t destroyed by the solidifying steel inside.

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Turner, who voted for Trump in the crucial battleground state of Pennsylvania last November, said his view of the president has soured. “You could say I support President Trump because I voted [for him], but I would say that I’ve always kind of questioned how much strategy he uses versus bravado,” he said. “And I think this whole tariff thing has answered that question.” Turner isn’t alone: Polling shows that majorities of Americans oppose Trump’s tariff policies, and a Gallup poll released this week found that 89 percent of Americans thought tariffs would increase prices.

The Dispatch. 05/01/2025.

Mary Gordon told The Dispatch her message to “Trump” is this: Asked if there was one message she could send to Trump and his economic advisers, Gordon told The Dispatch: “If you’re a billionaire, you can probably weather this really easily. Those of us who are down in the trenches that are making sure their employees have a paycheck every week are really going to be suffering.”

While some people anxiously watch the stock market for signs of a recession, others look for more subtle cues that the economy is in trouble.

One of them is Catherine De Noire, a manager of a legal brothel, a Ph.D. candidate in organizational psychology and an influencer. When business at her brothel unexpectedly dips, De Noire takes it as a sign that the economy is in trouble.

Although De Noire is based in Europe, she believes that economic upheaval in the United States “triggers huge uncertainty” across the pond because of America’s global influence. De Noire first noticed a decline in business right after Donald Trump was elected in November 2024, as Americans and the rest of the world anticipated upheaval.

Strippers in the U.S. are also feeling the pinch. Dancer and influencer Vulgar Vanity said that when she first started dancing in 2022, she could earn six figures just by dancing during a handful of big events in Austin, such as the Formula 1 Grand Prix and South by Southwest music festival. This year is different.

“I didn’t even bother working South by Southwest because the first Friday night I attempted to work, I walked into a completely empty club and didn’t make any money at all,” she said.

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Legal brothels in the U.S. are seeing a similar trend, according to Andrew Lokenauth, a data analyst and founder of BeFluentInFinance.com. He explains that revenue at legal brothels in Nevada is down roughly 20% since last quarter. “My research shows this correlates strongly with discretionary spending trends,” indicating a recession is likely.

Huff Post. 05/01/2025.

U.S. fireworks wholesalers and distributors say they’ve been canceling shipments from China for this year’s July Fourth holiday. Some are also halting manufacturing in China of fireworks for next year’s celebrations of the 250th anniversary of America’s independence. Trump’s April 2 tariff rollout, which he dubbed “Liberation Day,” raised the effective import tax rate on nearly all Chinese goods to 145%, even after he walked back much of the other sweeping duties days later.

“There’s definitely a lot of urgency here for our industry, and it’s a very, very serious situation,” said Michael Ingram, CEO of Fireworks Over America, a Missouri-based distributor. “It would be a shame to have the skies go dark on the Fourth of July.”

Trump’s China tariffs have caused retailers across industries to halt shipments. Seasonal products, like toys for Christmas or costumes for Halloween, are at particular risk because of the limited window of time companies have to produce and import them.

The president dismissed concerns about the falloff, saying at a Cabinet meeting Wednesday that ships “are loaded up with stuff, much of which — not all of it, but much of which — we don’t need.” 

“Somebody said, ‘Oh, the shelves are going to be bare.’ Well, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30, you know?” he said. “And maybe the two dolls will cost a couple of bucks more than they would normally.”

Ingram said his company managed to get most of its July Fourth fireworks into the United States before the tariffs. But he halted shipment of 120,000 cases still in China that wouldn’t have arrived in time. Some of those supplies were meant for a veterans group planning to use proceeds from the sale of the fireworks to fund its suicide prevention programs, he said.

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“There are certainly companies that are smaller that might only order one or two containers for the season, and that product is coming in right now at 145% tariff, and they are in real trouble,” Ingram said.

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“You just can’t stay in business like that — no one can,” said Greg Hebert, owner of Houston-based Adventure Fireworks.

He said two bulk orders placed with his Chinese supplier arrived last month, narrowly escaping thousands of dollars in tariff charges. That cleared the way for the fireworks displays his corporate clients placed for this summer’s celebration. But the tariffs have stifled growth plans for his company, which Hebert founded after the pandemic.

“Now we’re having to wait, because we can’t afford a container ship of consumer fireworks right now,” he said.

NBC News. 05/01/2025.

But sure, the tax cut that most small businesses don’t qualify for is really going to help them out after they are closed down…

President Shitshow on “dolls”…

I’m ending Nazi Miller’s idiocy with this and no comment!

Breaking News…

Mike Waltz of #SignalGate is out according to lots of sources…

A few hours earlier…

I mean paid sex workers are on their knees less than that guy…

In more breaking news…

I haven’t got to read the ruling yet.

And that’s a wrap on the first 100/101 depending on calendar source of the President Shitshow’s thread. I’m off tomorrow to celebrate this milestone at Disneyland…

So, you know, the noon post will roll on; we will just be calling it something or somethings else starting tomorrow!

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