Alright folks, grab your pitchforks—or maybe your shopping apps—because Donald Trump just launched Trade War 2.0: The Revenge Tour, and guess who’s paying for the tickets?
You are.
Over the past week, Trump’s tariff tantrum has escalated into full-blown economic sabotage. His latest move? Slapping brutal new taxes on small, everyday goods imported from places like China and Hong Kong—stuff millions of Americans order daily from apps like Temu and SHEIN.
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Here’s the deal: the U.S. used to have this thing called the “de minimis” exemption. If you ordered something under 800 bucks, it came in duty-free. That’s how these platforms got away with offering you five-dollar sneakers and two-dollar earbuds.
But now, Trump and his cronies have gutted that rule. Starting May 2nd, that $5 phone case you were going to grab from Temu? Now it could be taxed up to 120%. And Hongkong Post—the literal government postal service—is saying, “No thanks, we’re not collecting those tariffs for Trump.” So they’re just halting package deliveries to the U.S. altogether.
Let me repeat that: a foreign postal service has cut off shipping to the United States—because Trump’s policy is that insane.
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And here’s where it gets even more ironic: the people who rely most on these apps? They’re not Wall Street hedge funders. They’re working-class Americans. Young people. Single moms. People trying to stretch a dollar.
This is the MAGA “America First” economy—where you pay more for less because some orange con man wants to settle a score with China and pretend he's tough on trade.
And it’s not just about phone cases and cheap fashion. This is a preview of what happens when a wannabe dictator gets ahold of the levers of power and pulls them out of spite, not strategy. There’s no coherent economic plan here—just grievance, ego, and consequences for everyone but him.
So next time someone tells you Trump “fights for the little guy,” remind them that the little guy just got priced out of their own mailbox.
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