Donald Trump and White House officials walked back a Friday announcement that there would be tariff exemptions on imported electronics.

In a Truth Social post on Sunday, Trump directly denied the tariff exemption announcement.

“This is really mind-boggling. If this was serious industrial policy, the main thing you want is certainty: ‘Here’s the tariff, it will be in place for the indefinite future, and you should plan accordingly,’” Dean Baker, an economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, a left-leaning think tank, said, according to The Washington Post. “Here, it’s basically: ‘Come back next week and see what we’ve got.’ That’s no way to run an economy.”

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    2 days ago

    The US was never a democracy to begin with. It was a government designed to benefit one very particular small but powerful minority.

    It’s just that now it’s come out of the closet.

    It’s strange that it would happen now, at a point when literally every job can be automated(or will be automatable within the next 5-10 years).