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‘Entire World Ripping Us Off’: Trump Quotes FDR in Angry Tariff War Meltdown
President Donald Trump exploded in a fiery social media rant Thursday morning, defending his tariffs with rhetoric that framed them as weapons in a war—quoting WW II-era President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) to defend his controversial taxes.
Trump’s attack on what he called the “Globalist Wall Street Journal” followed criticism from the Murdoch-owned newspaper’s editor, who argued that Trump’s “haphazard” tariffs were unsettling business leaders and fostering instability.
Wall Street Journal Editor in Chief Emma Tucker told Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo on Thursday morning (video below) that less than two months ago, just as Trump was ushering in his second term, the mood of business executives was “upbeat.” She explained that “the talk was all of deregulation, growth, you know, no tax rises — boom, boom America — and Europe was absolutely stuck in the doldrums, very unhappy. But it’s very interesting how that mood has shifted pretty much since all the tariffs started coming in.”
The President went ballistic.
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“The Globalist Wall Street Journal has no idea what they are doing or saying,” he declared. “They are owned by the polluted thinking of the European Union, which was formed for the primary purpose of ‘screwing the United States of America. Their (WSJ!) thinking is antiquated and weak, and very bad for the USA. But have no fear, we will WIN on everything!!! Egg prices are down, oil is down, interest rates are down, and TARIFF RELATED MONEY IS POURING INTO THE UNITED STATES.”
He ended that post by misquoting FDR’s famous remarks, stating: “The only thing you have to fear, is fear itself!”
Minutes later, Trump continued his rant.
“The U.S. doesn’t have Free Trade. We have ‘Stupid Trade.’ The Entire World is RIPPING US OFF!!!”
For years, Trump boasted and bragged about the trade deal he took credit for negotiating, the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement, or “USMCA,” which replaced the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
Earlier Thursday morning, Trump had exploded over tariffs the European Union had announced, tariffs that were in response to those Trump had imposed.
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“The European Union, one of the most hostile and abusive taxing and tariffing authorities in the World, which was formed for the sole purpose of taking advantage of the United States,” Trump alleged, “has just put a nasty 50% Tariff on Whisky. If this Tariff is not removed immediately, the U.S. will shortly place a 200% Tariff on all WINES, CHAMPAGNES, & ALCOHOLIC PRODUCTS COMING OUT OF FRANCE AND OTHER E.U. REPRESENTED COUNTRIES. This will be great for the Wine and Champagne businesses in the U.S.”
(Many were quick to point out that there is no “Champagne business” in the U.S., as champagne legally only comes from France.)
“Tit-for-tat threats gather pace in transatlantic trade feud,” Bloomberg News reported, adding: “Trump is ‘escalating the trade war he chose to unleash,’ Laurent Saint-Martin, France’s trade minister, wrote in a post on X. ‘We will not give in to threats and will always protect our industries.'”
Bloomberg added that Trump’s “sweeping tariff agenda” was being enacted “in a piecemeal fashion, a strategy that has been punctuated by uncertainty, including delays, reversals and changes in direction.”
Watch the video below or at this link.
This is probably the interview that set Trump off on Truth Social this morn — Wall Street Journal Editor in Chief Emma Tucker criticizing Trump’s policies on Maria Bartiromo’s show, saying executives are “floundering” because of them, & adding that prices will go up for consumers because of tariffs
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) March 13, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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A Texas Republican running for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives is promoting her candidacy by vowing to end Islam in the Lone Star State and by burning a Quran with a flamethrower.
Valentina Gomez, who ran a failed campaign to become the Secretary of State for Missouri in 2024, says in her new video, “Your daughters will be raped, and your sons beheaded. Unless we stop Islam, once and for all.”
She then sets what appears to be a Quran on fire.
“We’re done turning the other cheek,” says Gomez, wearing camouflage pants and a shirt emblazoned with an assault rifle. “Remember, David, didn’t pray for Goliath. He killed him.”
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“America is a Christian nation,” Gomez says, a claim that scholars and courts have rejected. “So those terrorist Muslims can f– off to any of the 57 Muslim nations.
“There is only one true God,” she declares.
Gomez has a history of book burning and rhetoric aimed at minority communities.
In a similar video, Gomez in 2024 took a flamethrower to LGBTQ themed books.
“When I become Secretary of State, they will burn,” she said in the video.
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The Guardian that year reported that Gomez also “stoked outrage with a video in which she ran down a street while wearing a protective vest and said: ‘In America, you can do anything you want, so don’t be weak and gay. Stay f– hard.’
The Kansas City Star, also in 2024, reported that Gomez’s “social media accounts are littered with anti-LGBTQ rhetoric. The video of her burning LGBTQ-themed books drew swift condemnation from social media users.”
Gomez lost that race but won 7 percent of the vote. Despite those results, she told NBC News, “I was a nobody and God transformed me into one of the most feared, respected, and loved women in American Politics. I put the fear of God in pedophiles, groomers, and corrupt politicians. I never sold out, spoke the truth, and did the right thing for the American people.”
The Star also noted: “Public book burnings typically illustrate extreme censorship related to political, cultural and religious materials. They often invoke historic atrocities such as burning of Jewish texts in Nazi Germany or racist bonfires by the Ku Klux Klan.”
Critics expressed outrage.
“A woman who doesn’t understand the nation she claims to defend,” remarked columnist Rikki Schlott. She added, “Someone please put her in a 5th grade civics class.”
Journalist Hamilton Cain commented: “Deranged & depraved.”
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President Donald Trump has repeatedly stated he wants to roll out his anti-crime initiatives, including sending the National Guard to U.S. cities facing high rates of crime, but ignores that the majority of the most dangerous cities are in red states.
According to Newsweek, out of the twenty-five most dangerous cities per capita, the vast majority — eighteen — are in red states. Only seven out of the twenty-five are in blue states.
The majority of the top ten most dangerous cities, according to Newsweek, are in red states.
- Memphis, TN
- Cleveland, OH
- Toledo, OH
- Little Rock, AR
- Peoria, IL
- Springfield, IL
- Detroit, MI
- Akron, OH
- Beaumont, TX
- Rockford, IL
Newsweek also reported that “the latest report from the FBI found that crime has decreased overall. Violent crime fell 4.5 percent from 2023 to 2024, while property crime dipped 8.1. percent. Hate crimes had dropped 1.5 percent during that same time period.”
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But on Monday, President Trump shared a different perspective.
“Mr. President,” a reporter asked in the Oval Office, “on the National Guard, you talked a lot about Democratic runs cities and states. Would you also consider sending the National Guard into red states and red cities that are also seeing high crime?”
“Sure,” Trump replied. “But there aren’t that many of them.”
He claimed, “if you look at the top 25 cities that, for crime — just about every one of those cities is run by Democrats.”
Calling Trump’s claims “misleading,” The Guardian adds that “according to a report by Rochester Institute of Technology, which analyzed FBI data from 2024, two of the cities in the list of highest homicide rates have Republican mayors. And out of the 24 cities in that list, six states are led by GOP governors.”
Watch the video below or at this link.
REPORTER: On the National Guard, you’ve talked a lot about Democratic-run cities and states. Would you also consider sending the National Guard into red states and red cities that are also seeing high crime?
TRUMP: Sure. But there aren’t that many of them. pic.twitter.com/q2a69ef44k
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 25, 2025
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Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom is responding after President Donald Trump announced that he will direct the U.S. Department of Justice to sue California over its plan to put new congressional maps before voters, a move state officials say is a response to the president’s directive requiring Texas to redraw its maps to create five additional Republican districts.
In a nearly unprecedented move last month, President Trump told Texas Governor Greg Abbott he wanted new congressional maps drawn in the Lone Star State, to create five new GOP-held seats. The move would help Republicans in their efforts to hold the majority the U.S. House of Representatives in next year’s midterms.
Districts, by constitutional mandate, are redrawn every ten years, based on the official U.S. Census. A mid-decennial redrawing is unusual, although not entirely unprecedented.
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Governor Newsom had warned that if Texas succeeded, he would move to have his state’s maps redrawn. Texas did, and last week state lawmakers passed legislation that will ask voters this November to approve the redrawn maps.
Asked by a reporter if there is a “federal mechanism” he could use to “fight back” against Governor Newsom’s redistricting, despite having ordered Texas to redistrict, President Trump referred to the California governor as “Gavin Newscum.”
He then replied, “Well, I think I’m going to be filing a lawsuit pretty soon and I think we’re going to be very successful in it.”
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“We’re going to be filing it through the Department of Justice. That’s going to happen,” Trump vowed.
Responding to the news of a lawsuit, Governor Newsom wrote on social media: “BRING IT.”
On Thursday, according to CNBC, President Trump praised Texas for its new maps, writing: “The incredible people of Texas will have the opportunity to elect five more Republicans to Congress, thanks to the passage of their much more fair new Map — A BIG WIN for Republicans in Texas, and across the Country!”
Watch the video below or at this link.
Trump says the DOJ is going to sue to stop California’s redistricting effort pic.twitter.com/bAhGVpWdz2
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 25, 2025
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