Trump basically admits his tariffs are raising grocery prices

The Trump administration is preparing to exempt certain food items from President Donald Trump's idiotic and possibly illegal tariffs, The New York Times reported on Thursday, with administration officials telling the Times that the exemptions are an effort to lower grocery prices.

Exempting certain items from Trump's moronic tariffs in an effort to lower costs for American consumers is an admission that tariffs do, in fact, raise prices—as economists, Democrats, and really anyone with a brain has been saying for months.

“The Trump Administration is preparing tariff rollbacks that essentially concede that so many of their tariffs are a tax on consumers raising their basic, everyday prices—tariffs that never made sense or had anything to do with manufacturing or national security,” Gene S