Originally posted by: Mark
David, does Fox News and Forbes work for you?
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-says-those-against-tariffs-serving-hostile-foreign-interests-full-benefit-yet-seen
https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2025/11/24/trump-claims-tariff-income-will-skyrocket-soon-as-pre-tariff-stockpiles-are-running-thin/
The Fox links stated - President Donald Trump suggested that the "full benefit" of tariffs has not yet been realized because their impact has been blunted by stockpiles of goods amassed to avoid paying the tariffs— but he suggested that those stockpiles are dwindling and the full force of his tariffs will soon take hold. "Despite the massive amount of money being made by the United States of America, Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, as a direct result of Tariffs being charged to other countries, the full benefit of the Tariffs has not yet been calculated in that many of the buyers of goods and products, in order to avoid paying the Tariffs in the short term, ‘STOCK UP’ by purchasing far more inventory than they can use," Trump declared in a Monday morning Truth Social post. "That heavy inventory purchase is now, however, wearing thin, and soon Tariffs will be paid on everything they apply to, without avoidance, and the amounts payable to the USA will SKYROCKET, over and above the already historic levels of dollars received," --All of which will be true. But I don't see the link to Truth Social to which you said be was "bragging" - that was not bragging, it was just stating facts. Your spin -"Bragging in the Christmas season about how your policies are going to cause prices to climb even higher isn't a winning political strategy. I guess Republicans are going to run on, we think things are too cheap, so we want you to pay even more for everything." -- saying is isn't a winning strategy is asinine. It is not a "strategy" is is/was a statement of facts.