I was motivated to write about The Great American Tariff Scam by Donald Trump’s sickening PR stunt on May 30 at a US Steel plant in Pennsylvania. I’m looking at Trump’s big belly and red tie posing with steelworkers in hard hats and coils of rolled steel around them. He’s not the first president to use steelworkers as a prop, but the first to do so while economically spitting in their faces.
As I lay our in my latest report, Trump’s tariff terrorism on steel imports has cost American steel jobs…and it will get worse.
So, with his steel tariff madness backfiring, Trump did what every huckster politician has done for decades: create a phony photo op. You’ve seen it before. A bunch of blue-collar workers in hard-hats and high viz vests applauding some duplicitous politician standing in front of a bunch of coils of rolled steel. They’re saving jobs at this plant!
Well, thanks, Donald, that Pennsylvania mill wasn’t in jeopardy until you, Donald, blocked Nippon Steel from investing in the plant so it could stay open.
Inspired by my report, the Hartmann team created The Great American Tariff Scam Song (as featured in our video above). Full lyrics can be found here.
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