«DWe are money from Chinese farmers to buy the things that these Chinese farmers produce. This is not a recipe for economic prosperity, nor for low prices, and it is not a recipe for good US jobs » The vice president at Fox News said on April 3, setting the ground for the “bomb” of the next day in the name of protecting US workers.
Vance did not accidentally use the term “Peasants” talking about the Chinese, as he can also be translated as “villagers”, even as “slaves”. On the one hand, he attempted to underestimate the situation of the Chinese economy and on the other to encourage American workers and farmers who voted for Trump and is one of the first to bear the immediate consequences of the trade war.
Confusion and ignorance
Responding to the imposition of up to 145% on Chinese products by Trump, Beijing raised its own tariffs to 125% for US goods.
Although early in the real economy and in the pockets of Americans, the vast majority of them (57% versus 39%) are opposed to duties and see more precision in a wide range of consumer goods.
According to a poll ended last Sunday and published in the middle of the week, 73% of Americans believe that the prices of products they buy on a daily basis will rise.
Only 4% think prices will fall, while the remaining 23% do not expect any change or did not respond to the reuters/ipsos. However, one in two respondents agreed with Trump’s argument that other countries are exploiting the US and that in the short term it is worthwhile to make America stronger in the future.
Also, three out of four (76%) said that new duties should be imposed on countries exploiting the system, not all.
But if the wrong answers given by the Americans to the same poll to the basic question of what duties and who are burdened. Most (46%) responded wrongly that ‘Duties are the taxes paid by the country that exports goods’, while only 32% responded correctly and 21% that they do not know.
The percentage of incorrect answers is 72% launched when it comes to Fox News channel viewers, who are primarily Trump’s voters. In other words, almost one in two Americans and most of Trump’s supporters responded to the duties with the wrong perception of what it was.
The confusion of duties could benefit Trump in the short term as he is back and forth in the context of a “harsh negotiation” with opponents and friends in order to, he says, to “make America great again”.
But the result will be seen in the middle of the ancient American in the coming months (who voted for the economy), that is, where the prices of fuel, food, essentials, electricity will be.
With the policy of “whip (duties) and carrots”, promising, among other things, bureaucratic, environmental “obstacles”, and even facilities for the construction of their own energy units (since the electricity grid is in many areas problematic). It will take months, if not years, to build the factories and find the Americans there.
‘Toxic’ Musk
Meanwhile, the results of cuts and redundancies made to the US State with the saw of the “Special Presidential Adviser” and head of the “ministry” of government effectiveness are already visible. Ilon Mask.
Although there is still no formal, overall picture of the number of redundant, civil servants who lost their jobs in the first two months of the second presidency of Trump (February – March 2025) are estimated at more than 280,000 in 27 services.
Due to mass redundancies of civil servants, the total number of Americans who lost their jobs in the first quarter of the year touched half a million, that is, the highest numbers than the era of the Coronovirus Pandemic.
These numbers do not include “side losses” of business workers who do jobs with the federal public. Vice President Vance took distances from Musk, referring to the need to quickly correct some mistakes because “many good people are working in the State”.
Having lifted a great deal of popular anger for the government’s actions, billionaire businessman Ilon Musk is preparing to leave the informal ministerial shield, but maintained a privileged relationship with President Trump. The White House described “rubbish” as a conflict reports with Trump and Musk’s return to his business.
(where his chosen one for the State Supreme Court was defeated by liberal Susan Crawford), quarrels and heavy talks with ministers, accusations that it serves personal interests, the presidential adviser and friend is facing an informal boycott of his companies by consumers who were outraged by Nazi greetings and overall policy.
Mass demonstrations
Demonstrations in 1,200 American cities last Saturday, involving more than two million people, according to the organizers, were the first event of mass anger and reaction to Trump Presidency. Not only was dismissed or dismissed on the streets, but part of the society that reacts to the frontal attack on liberal America.
Without having recovered from the electoral defeat, the Democratic Party bets on popular discontent to regain control of the House of Representatives in the interim elections in November 2026. The left wing of the Democrats, under the Bernie Sanders. But for now, the biggest threat to Trump is himself.
