President Trump said Monday that tariff revenues will soon “skyrocket,” arguing that retailers who previously stockpiled inventory to avoid the levies are running low on supplies and will have to bring in new goods under the tariff regime soon.

Trump’s comments on Truth Social came as he’s been pushing hard to make life in the US more affordable, recently cutting levies on over 200 products and promising to send tariff “dividend checks” to most Americans.

“[T]he 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,” the president wrote.

“That heavy inventory purchase is now, however, wearing thin, and soon Tariffs wil

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