What POTUS Trump's Tariffs Really Do in His MAGA, America-First Land and to the Large Majority of the People of the USA

What POTUS Trump's Tariffs Really Do in His MAGA, America-First Land and to the Large Majority of the People of the USA

04-03-2025 -- Reiterating more expansively

What the Trump right hand takes away in taxes, with 83% of this federal tax cut benefitting the billionaires and mega-millionaires, his sweeping-and-high-tariffs magician left hand more than offsets and raises in retail consumer-purchase taxes, the equivalent of a disguised federal sales tax, under the label of tariffs, that is in addition to state and local government sales taxes, predominately paid by the middle- and low-income classes and substantially and meaningfully reducing their purchasing and overall financial power.

Such tariffs on imported foreign goods and input products used in the manufacture or production of domestic goods relax the competitive pressure on domestic producers and wholesalers to produce and supply the retail and mass household consumer marketplace with goods at best competitive prices and tempt and incentivize them to uncompetitively raise prices per se, which import goods retailers and inputs user domestic producers in part must do nevertheless to preserve their profit margins or profitability and solvency. They also incentivize the revving up or emergence of black-market underground economies to sell, or selling, at much lower prices smuggled, heisted and counterfeit goods, including, but more than, electronics, appliances, auto parts, jewelry, apparel, dried and canned foods, alcoholic beverages and tobacco smoking items, at much lower and affordable prices, which are consequently tariff and entirely tax evasive and free.

Extensive and high tariffs like those of POTUS Trump imposed on so many nations will promptly provoke compensatorily retaliatory, reciprocal tariffs on USA export businesses and good from the central government authorities that have taxing power and the control of the affairs in international commerce of those nations targeted and hit by the questionably legal tariffs of 1930s-and-1940s-fascist-era ideological minded MAGA US President Trump. They will do this for the purpose of supporting and protecting the international-trade economic interests of their national business community, which result in a loss of market welcome, competitiveness, share and profitability of US business and goods in those nations.

Potentially, these tariffs levied on foreign imports into the USA are not legal because the US Constitution, which is the supreme law of the USA, confer all fiscal, including tariff-levying and commerce regulation, authority of the USA to the US Congress and although the US Congress has delegated some of its tariff levying, etc., authority to the US President by statutory-law legislated Acts of Congress, its such legislation very well might not be US Constitutional and thus Constitutionally illegal, as may be its delegation to the US President its, in part, US Constitutionally conferred war powers authority.

Tariffs levied on imports to the USA by the US President and presidential executive order may in earnest be US Constitutionally illegal because the US Congress and the laws legislated by the US Congress respectively are subordinate to the US Constitution and laws of the US Constitution, and the US Congress cannot on its own, through only its own legislation, change the US Constitution and its laws, which is to say as regards these issues that the Congress, as a matter of US Constitutional law, cannot legally overrule or bypass the US Constitution in any way, or nullify, abandon, alienate or share the powers, in whole or the least part, conferred to it by the US Constitution, except to only US Constitutionally properly modify, as US Constitutionally prescribed, the US Constitution and its laws, limited to those that are not the unalienable rights that it irrevocably decrees, by the legislative passage of initiatives to amend the US Constitution, being amendments to the US Constitution, by successively two-thirds of each the House of Representatives and Senate of the US Congress and three-fourths of the state legislatures.

Click on the link below to access the article of the US Constitution conferring the power to levy tariffs to the US Congress (and not the US President):

https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/article-1/section-8/

Theme song, 'Get Up, Stand Up, Stand Up for Your Rights' by Bob Marley, Fit for Opposing the Trump Presidential Administration in Its Attempts to Exercise Dictatorial Rule in the USA

Theme song, 'Get Up, Stand Up, Stand Up for Your Rights' by Bob Marley, Fit for Opposing the Trump Presidential Administration in Its Attempts to Exercise Dictatorial Rule in the USA

This is a theme song, 'Get Up, Stand Up, Stand Up for Your Rights' by Bob Marley, suited for opposing the Trump Presidential Administration in its attempts to exercise dictatorial rule in the USA, that is, amass and concentrate authorities of the Congressional and Judicial branches of the federal government in the US President, as well as for opposing, in this pursuit of his, the President and his Administration in their undertaking to discredit, harass, intimidate and endanger by various means the federal Constitutionally loyal members of Congress (like them or their MAGA zealots and enforcers saying to their GOP members there that if you dissent or act independently our billionaire and mega-millionaire donor-supporters will primary you out of office with their money, with one such towering billionaire saying that he personally will do that) and justices of the Judiciary (like them, the MAGA cultists, chorally lying and saying in news and political media campaigns, to reach mass public audiences and to outrage their constituents in them, that judges have no judicial review authority over presidential acts or executive orders, which indeed are not laws but are policy directives within the executive branch that must be compliant with Constitutional and Congressional statutory law in order for them to be legally valid and operative, and which are subject to judicial review and adjudication, and their public threats of and calls for impeachment of judges whose law-adhering and enforcing judicial rulings are objectionable to the President or MAGA-GOP). The President and his Administration say and do these bullying-tactics things to the other branches of the federal government so as to gain and exercise their hoped-for social and political leverage over them with which to coerce, subordinate, overrule or disempower them (the Congressional and Judiciary branches the federal government) of their Constitutional rights and authorities and for them to tacitly cede their authorities to the kingly President or be his political puppets and make laws and judicial rulings palatable to him. Though the President and his Administration try, yet for the most part the judges in the federal judiciary in their rulings do not allow the President and his Administration, to successfully, in outcomes, ignore, bypass and subvert and violate in rhetoric, be it sophistry, obfuscation, chicanery or explicit, and conduct whatever of the body of laws of the Constitution, including the subordinate to it and them laws of Congress, and the Constitutional Democratic Bill of Rights form of government of the, our, United States of America, underscoring its separation of powers laws pertaining to the three co-equal, checks-and-balances congressional, judicial and executive branches of the federal government and their duties and authorities conferred upon them by the US Constitution as specified in the US Constitution, that are disagreeable to the President and his Administration.

Any official or employee of the federal government who affirmatively refuses to. or says in any way that he will not, honor and comply with the laws of the US Constitution, statutory laws of the US Congress compliant with the US Constitution and judicial rulings by judges of the federal courts applicable to and in adjudication of these laws, must immediately resign from his such job or be terminated from employment in it and be barred from any employment with the federal government permanently for having treasonously violated, betrayed, their, his or her sworn oath of allegiance to the US Constitution for their, his or her employment as a federal official or employee, whose oath is "to protect and defend the Constitution of the Constitution of the United States of America from all enemies, foreign and domestic." Even the US President must swear to this oath to be vested in holding his office as President of the United States of America.

Click below to listen to the song -- it is copyright protected from other than fair use, non-monetary, non-commercial or non-proprietary use, directly or indirectly, but can be shared as a YouTube platform song.

https://youtu.be/X2W3aG8uizA?si=AG2DE7kVtN2U2CDg

Concerning the Anti-USA Constitution & Anti-USA Constitutional Democratic Bill of Rights Republic Form of Government Misdeeds of Aspirational Reich Fuhrer of the USA, Commissar Krasnov, POTUS DJ Trump

Concerning the Anti-USA Constitution & Anti-USA Constitutional Democratic Bill of Rights Republic Form of Government Misdeeds of Aspirational Reich Fuhrer of the USA, Commissar Krasnov, POTUS DJ Trump

It's an illegal presidential executive order, in violation of the US Congressional act that created it (The US Department of Education is a Congressional statutory-law federal agency) and Trump's EO, current and impending, illegal redirection and defunding of its funding appropriated and allocated to it by the Congress, like so many other of his executive orders (EOs).

(Kirsten Gillibrand, US Senator, NY. "President Trump's Executive Order to shut down the Department of Education will have devastating impacts on millions of students that rely on the department for funding. What happens to the K-12 students that need special education programs or the college students counting on…" Show more. 2:56 AM · Mar 21, 2025)

POTUS Trump will go as far as he can in establishing for himself total dictatorial rulership of the USA, or of the federal government at a minimum, if, for the latter, state governors, legislatures, attorneys generals and national guards don't yield to his US Constitutionally illegal sweep and consolidation of Congressional, judicial and executive branch federal powers in himself as US President, ultimately achievable with his self-serving misuse of the intimidated by him and submissive to him [personnel of the] US armed forces and federal executive branch law enforcement and intelligence services, compliant to him in their dependence on their federal jobs and incomes for their own and their families' financial life support, savings, home, automobile and other household assets, and investments and retirements, subject to risk of loss or other jeopardy by him and his political-appointee, by him, MAGA-neo-fascist, pro-oligarchy federal executive-branch cabinet secretaries and agency heads. They, as careerist civil servants (military personnel included) are financially-economically held hostage by him and in their job-related actions are thereby under his control and that of his political-appointee department and agency heads who have control over their job security and up or down or flat-line career trajectories. They are further tormented by the significantly illegal DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency, a unilaterally presidentially created federal department without the legislative consent and action of the US Congress) deconstruction, mass firings and privacy-records intrusions or trespasses on the financial and more records of the US population in the trust of government agencies are or should be worried by the prospect that such ruthlessness could strike them -- by the way, the GAO agency (the Government Accountability Office), the equivalent of an office of federal operations audit, of the US Congress already routinely conducts thoroughgoing audits and efficiency reviews of all federal government operations and for finding and rooting out waste, fraud and abuse in them with written reports on them and recommendations, as applicable, for amelioration of identified inefficiencies, or deficiencies, and/or the elimination of identified waste, fraud and abuse and their causes or sources to the US Congress and department and agency heads, which makes Trump's possibly illegal DODGE suspect and possibly a front for previously US Congressionally rejected project Total Information Management (presumably, all contact, financial, household, family, relationships, employment and business, school, library-use, book purchase, residential, medical and hospitalization, legal and justice system, organizational and social affiliation and activism background and history and demographic-profile information) on all individuals of the US population, which it deemed was subject to political, if not also big-business private-enterprise, rogue abuse and misuse against the US public or population.

Technically, he can be stopped via impeachment by the US Congress for some of his already committed serious violations of the US Constitution but both of the two chambers of the US Congress, the House of Representatives and Senate, with pusillanimous Republican majority membership sycophants, show themselves in the majority to be intimidated by and passive and acquiescent to his transgressions, no matter what and the magnitude of the illegality and his continuing number of such illegalities. So, there strongly is not the needed momentum in the House of Representatives of the US Congress to initiate impeachment proceedings against Commissar Krasnov POTUS-Pompous DJ Trump at this time, nor is there a 67-count senatorial vote available of the 100 senators, of which there are 53 Republican senators, in the Senate of the US Congress to convict him of an impeachable offense and evict him from office as US president. Even if a minority of 34 senators voted against an impeachment conviction of him, he could not be decidedly impeached and removed from office as US president.

The USA Truly Is Now Truly at Its Breaking Point & the Point of Imperilment of Its Federal Constitutional Bill of Rights Republic Form of Government Transitioning & Descending into a Rogue Presidential Dictatorship

 

The USA Truly Is Now at Its Breaking Point & the Point of Imperilment of Its Federal Constitutional Bill of Rights Republic Form of Government Transitioning & Descending into a Rogue Presidential Dictatorship (Mouse click on the following hyperlink to be factually informed as to why:  https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-deports-hundreds-venezuelans-despite-140611527.html? )

As of this action by POTUS Donald Trump, Trump has crossed the Rubicon and the United State of America is in a literal and formal state of US Constitutional crisis and breach of the US Constitution's demarcated separation of powers of the three branches of government, the congressional-legislative, the executive/administrative-presidential and the judicial-law adjudicating, applying and refereeing, with the executive-presidential branch blatantly defying and transgressing the US Constitutional authority of the federal judiciary -- there is more, applicably as regards the deconstruction and redirection of the US Constitutional and Congressionally legislated statutory-law agencies, property, public programs, budgets and staffing regulations of the federal civil service.  The MAGA insurrectionist event of January 6th of 2021, and the preparatory events of the weeks leading up to it, tell/s that he will go as far as he is allowed to go by the inaction and passivity of the US Congress, federal law enforcement and the armed forces in amassing and concentrating all federal government power in himself and for himself.  The USA is teetering at the edge of the precipice.  He goes as far as he can go.  The state governors and legislatures are the last government line of defense against a consolidated presidential dictatorship in the USA.  Be prepared to be patriots and heroes.  

The US Treasury money is the taxpayers' money and for the common good of the United States of America and the benefit and benefits of the population of the USA -- and not for a cryptocurrency bitcoin, etc., reserve -- and its appropriation and allocation are the US Constitutional responsibility and decision-making authority of the US Congress, and the Constitutional and Congressionally statutory institutional entities of the federal government, being civil service departments and agencies administered by the executive-presidential branch of the USA, can only be, as applicable, abolished or reconstituted by the US Congress.

The US Treasury, its money and the taxpayer money in general of the USA does not belong to the US president.  US Constitutionally, it is not for his or her discretionary, independent use but is entrusted for appropriation, allocation and disbursement control, and regulation and oversight, with the US Congress.  The US Congress, to whom the US president and executive branch of the federal government must seek funding as well as go for it to legislatively create a new department or agency of the executive branch of the federal government, levies taxes and allocates and regulates federal budgets and expenditures as well as conducts fiscal, efficiency and integrity audits of federal government operations via its audit agency the fearsome GAO, the [US] Government Accountability Office, the conceptual equivalent of an office of federal audit ferreting out waste, fraud and abuse, which makes redundant and [politically] purposefully questionable the indicatively unlawful Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency.  

There is an obscure federal law that was enacted by the US Congress during the Bill Clinton Presidency, or during the presidency prior to or subsequent to it, allowing an officer or responsible employee of the executive branch of the federal government to be sued for violating any federal legal right of a citizen, or maybe even any member of the US population, in the course of performing his or her official duties, applicable to each participating and offending such person in the chain of action or command.  I conjecture that they can also be personally sued for financial repercussions by the courts therein and thereupon for violating court orders and engaging in egregious or specious official contempt of court.  

The White House spokeswoman stated publicly in effect, following violation of the court order, that the executive branch's disregard of the federal district judge's court order was not defiance, thus contempt of court, because the sole judge did not have the authority to make a court ruling or decision on the judicial issue before his court, a judicial decision-making opinion that US Constitutionally only a federal court of law can make, and not the US president, any officer or member of the executive branch or the US Congress.  This stance by the Trump Presidential Administration, if not legally confronted and jettisoned for the rubbish that is, would become the rationale and mantra of POTUS Trump or his Presidential Administration for defying any and all federal court rulings that POTUS Trump or his Presidential Administration might object to and not like.  Read the related news article below by mouse clicking on the following hyperlink:  White House denies ignoring court order halting Venezuelan deportations to El Salvador | CNN Politics .

Trumpian-MAGA US Presidency Throwing Ukraine to the Wolves and Sharing in the Feeding Frenzy

Trumpian-MAGA US Presidency Throwing Ukraine to the Wolves and Sharing in the Feeding Frenzy

The policy act by the Trump-Vance US Presidency to pause the flow of US armaments to Ukraine is its pressure tactic to stress the Ukrainian government by grief, in its armed forces and civilian society suffering worsened and intolerable casualties and destruction, into surrendering Ukrainian territory taken and occupied by Russian troops to Russia and to sign an agreement of co-ownership of its minerals with MAGA Trump-USA, as Ukraine's concessions to negotiate and conclude an armistice and peace agreement with the Putin regime of Russia, despite its concessions being grossly unfair, wrongful and dishonorable toward and dishonoring of Ukraine, the victim nation of the war perpetrated by invader-transgressor Putin-led Russia. Trump wants the political glory and adulation for having brokered a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia and of having extorted, extracted, clinched a deal of co-ownership of Ukraine’s minerals, in the pretense of it being in behalf of the USA, whereas it will really be to the benefit of US big-business mining and raw-materials processing and products-production companies whose economic interests he apparently really is serving. 

In short, it is meant to overwhelmingly advantage the Russian military assault on Ukraine and as much disadvantage Ukraine's military defense against Russia's military aggression against Ukraine, for the purpose of forcing Ukrainian concessionary peace negotiations with Putin-led Russia and a deal for US big-business mining and raw-material resources companies access to Ukrainian minerals and fossil fuels and their lands, which by that deal are to be co-owned by the USA, really to the benefit of these companies.  This predicament for Ukraine is a two-pronged, double-whammy victimization of Ukraine, with the Trump-MAGA US Presidency faulting the victim of war for not conceding territory seized and occupied by the armed forces of its invader-transgressor neighboring nation to the government of that transgressor nation Russia on the one hand and the minerals-deal-agreement demanding, of Ukraine, vulture-capitalism exploiter Trump-MAGA US Presidency on the other hand. 

Presidential Executive Orders Are Not Law

 Presidential Executive Orders Are Not Law

The US Constitution, the supreme law of the USA, specifically confers the bicameral US Congress with the exclusive authority to make federal laws, subject to the President's signature of approval of the law-making legislation, its enactment into law as an Act of the US Congress, or an overturning of a Presidential veto of the legislation by a two-thirds vote of approval of the legislation by the Congressional membership of each the US House of Representatives and the US Senate.

Trump, as judged by his actions as US President, is largely a K-thru-12-school basic-civics education dummy and conducts himself, with the manners of a raucous and rabid pack of hyenas, as though he did not receive any good-citizenship education therein, as well, but was raised the like. He behaves as though he does not know that a Presidential executive order is not a law and that only the bicameral US Congress, by US Constitutional provision, is conferred and possesses the authority to make, that is, legislate, federal law, referred to as federal statutory law as distinguished from its grantor and superior, as well as nationally supreme, US Constitutional law. A Presidential executive order is a federal administrative policy directive of the President that for its lawfulness and legal legitimacy must be compliant with US Constitutional and US Congressional statutory law. It is applicable to the executive branch cabinet secretaries and agency heads for its-their implementation within federal executive branch departments and agencies. Again, it is not law and cannot overturn any law, federal, state or local, but it has the force of law pursuant to and in its application of [specific] federal US Constitutional and/or US Congressional statutory law, which it can enforce fully within the permissible bounds or manner of and for enforcing such law.

What Trump Says He Wants and What It Means from a Political, Military, Historical and Psychiatric Frame of Reference

 

What Trump Says He Wants and What It Means from a Political, Military, Historical and Psychiatric Frame of Reference:

POTUS Trump says that he wants Greenland for the USA, for its minerals and strategic location,

He says that he wants Canada for the USA, for its minerals and proximity,

He says that he wants the Panama Canal for the USA, for its international transit shipping hub, traffic [fees] and ports,

He says that he wants Gaza of Palestine, to make it an ocean front riviera, with offshore natural-gas and oil deposits valued at circa $500,000,000,000 or more,

He says that he wants co-ownership of Ukraine's minerals and fossil-fuels and their natural resources lands

as [unprecedented] compensation for the Biden Presidency's and the bicameral US Congress's, of the Biden Presidency's tenure, authorization and delivery of weapons, ongoing until paused by Trump, to Ukraine for Ukraine to resist the Russian armed forces invasion and occupation of Ukrainian land, of which US weapons supplied to Ukraine account for 20% of the arms aid to Ukraine, also supplied by democratic European nations and Turkey, and although the Clinton US Presidency together with Russia committed to guarantee Ukraine's political and territorial independence and sovereignty and security in exchange for it giving up its nuclear arsenal, which Ukraine did then for their security guarantees of Ukraine (Incidentally, historically, reparations and compensation are paid by the war initiator-perpetrator nation/s to the victim and victim-aiding nations. Also, see the texts of the click-on documentary references listed below on USA-Russia's past and still obligatory security guarantees to Ukraine for Ukraine's relinquishment of its once nuclear arsenal*),

He signed and issued a presidential executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America,

all in the name of the USA and mostly for the purported, pretextual, national security interest of the USA, but apparently for US mining interests, as US president, he appears to be representing and serving as well as for his pursuit of USA MAGA, America-First ethnonational chauvinistic heroism and self-glorification. These public expressions of his inform us that Trump is a power-intoxicated, power-mongering megalomaniac and vulture capitalism, conscienceless, psychopathic lifestyle financial predator, who feels almighty, as US president, with his control of the US military, the most long-term experienced and weaponry and technologically advanced in the world.

Overview Reference on Budapest Memorandum on Denuclearization of Ukraine*

"On December 5, 1994 the leaders of Ukraine, Russia, United Kingdom, and the United States signed a memorandum to provide Ukraine with security assurances in connection with its accession to the NPT as a non-nuclear weapon state. The four parties signed the memorandum, containing a preamble and six paragraphs."

Ukraine and its past, relinquished weapons of mass destruction - Wikipedia

Best Click-on-Access In-Depth Readily Available Online Reference Documents

The Trilateral Process: The United States, Ukraine, Russia and Nuclear Weapons (brookings.edu)

Ukraine Symposium – The Budapest Memorandum’s History and Role in the Conflict - Lieber Institute West Point

Budapest Memorandum at 25: Between Past and Future | Harvard Kennedy School

Budapest Memorandum - Wikipedia