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VP @CatoInstitute, adjunct @DukeLaw, columnist @TheDispatch & @Bloomberg, contributor @PostOpinions. CH❤️RTS. You didn't read the article, did you?

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1Apr 18, '20Still laughing abt this101×0243k51k2.7k
2Mar 6, '25Today, Trump temporarily eliminated his own tariffs to "protect American car manufacturers and American farmers." I could watch this a million times.85.9×3.5M25k3.2k4.1k
3Oct 28, '24"You can go to live in France, but you cannot become a Frenchman. You can go to live in Germany or Turkey or Japan, but you cannot become a German, a Turk, or a Japanese. But anyon84.5×3.4M71k7.3k4k
4Nov 24, '23All time champion community note. Will never be topped.73.6×3M19k2.2k672
5Sep 10, '23Energy Secretary Granholm recently took 4-day EV caravan trip across the southeast to "draw attention to the billions of dollars the White House is pouring into green energy and cl60.9×2.5M8.6k2.6k706
6Dec 3, '23"Canadian woman is diagnosed with cancer, told she has 2 years to live at most, that she is not a candidate for surgery but would she like medical help committing suicide? She decl58×2.3M5.3k7611.1k
7Aug 10, '25Goldman's latest (still very early) analysis of tariff effects thru June 2025: -Foreign exporters absorbed 14% of US tariffs -US companies ate 64% -US consumers ate 22% -Protected 57.4×2.3M14k3.8k4.3k
8Jul 18, '25Despite a recent $750k taxpayer subsidy, the shelves at Kansas City's government-run grocery store are "almost bare." It also lost $885k last year and is, unsurprisingly, hemorrhag55.6×2.2M21k3.1k2.4k
9Jan 21, '23LOL. pwned by twitter.50.1×2M6.5k31886
10Apr 3, '25WH has now confirmed: this is insane42.7×1.7M8.9k1.5k1.5k
11Mar 27, '25View post on X39.7×1.6M39k2.7k699
12Nov 6, '24🙃30.8×1.2M6.4k485480
13Jun 16, '25So the guy who can singlehandedly set US tariffs on smartphones is launching his own US smartphone company do I have that right24.4×985k22k3.9k1.1k
14Jan 13, '23😥23.5×950k5.3k594271
15Aug 11, '25This is a letter signed by the US government's top lawyer and submitted today in federal court (in VOS Selections v Trump). I'm honestly struggling to believe it's real, but here w23.4×946k4.7k1.3k928
16Oct 8, '24"How did 50K dockworkers strike at US ports with only 25K jobs?"21.4×863k4k650647
17Apr 7, '25I give up.20.1×811k11k867702
18Aug 30, '25Maybe - and I'm just spitballing here - having one person frenetically set, and then suddenly change, taxes on trillions of dollars in annual commerce isn't the best way to do US e19.2×777k16k2.6k634
19Aug 26, '23One great cuisine vs *every* great cuisine. Not a difficult choice.19.1×770k4.3k159108
20Nov 25, '24Enjoy your fruit & vegetable tax, everyone.18.2×734k4.2k1k383
21Aug 22, '25A terrible decision bad for almost everyone. Six quick reasons why: 1. Bad for Intel's long-term viability, as politics, not commercial considerations, increasingly drive its decis17.9×723k3k687511
22Dec 3, '23Don't give up. Don't ever give up.16.7×673k2.5k256237
23Aug 31, '24What happens when GameDay goes to a Texas engineering school:14.8×598k7.4k408170
24Oct 24, '25Maybe it's just me, but I don't think US tariff and trade policy should depend on whether a TV ad hurts the president's fee-fees13.6×550k22k2.4k342
25Aug 28, '25Thanks to tariffs (esp re: Canada), US aluminium prices are now roughly 50% higher than in Europe & Japan, thus putting US manufacturers at a competitive disadvantage. Heckuva 13×525k7k2.3k663
26Feb 24, '24Hilarious.13×524k6.4k259470
27May 12, '18James Harrison's blood has unique antibodies that fight rhesus disease. So he donated blood every week for 60 years and saved the lives of 2.4M babies. Superheroes are real.12.9×026k8.3k114
28Apr 18, '25"Mack Trucks announces layoffs at Lehigh Valley plant, blames tariffs"11.3×457k2.8k1.2k266
29Feb 11, '25The same day Trump announces new steel tariffs, US steelmaking giant Nucor informs its US customers of price hikes. Here, it's for rebar - a core input for US construction. A remin11×443k5.3k1.9k529
30Sep 19, '25Given prior research on how R&D-intensive companies in the US respond to new limits on H1Bs (link/screenshot in next tweet), this EO should be called the "Offshoring Innovative10.8×435k3.9k518374
31Apr 2, '25Trump's reciprocal tariffs: 1) Impose hundreds of billions of dollars in new taxes on Americans without public/congressional input 2) Are based on secret calculations that have lit10.4×422k3.7k1k472
32Aug 3, '25I don't mean to dunk on this knife guy - really, I don't - but "tariff my competitors, not my inputs" is abt the most cliché (and hypocritical) protectionism there is - and it's a 9.6×388k7.3k641348
33Mar 8, '25"I've got the federal government forcing you to buy from me, and I don't care that you don't like it"9.5×383k17k651287
34Oct 2, '25Fine, here:9.4×382k11k1.2k210
35May 4, '25No Harry Potter. No James Bond. No Godzilla. No Squid Game. No Seven Samurai. No Life Is Beautiful. And on and on. Protectionists actively look for ways to make our lives worse.9.4×378k6.2k687227
36Jun 15, '25US Steel has effectively been nationalized (by the political party supposedly fighting American socialism)8.9×360k3.9k1.5k688
37Feb 3, '23The easiest way to get the feds to stop the Chinese Spy Balloon is to load it up with American-made goods and try floating it between 2 US ports.8.6×349k2.6k31621
38Dec 1, '24The only reason American coke doesn't use cane sugar today is bc of US tariffs/quotas.8.3×337k3.5k479177
39May 4, '25Hahaha. Five pencils per household. Truly, the Golden Age!8.3×335k4.3k545156
40Apr 26, '25"Albertsons tells suppliers to eat the cost of tariffs: ‘We are not accepting cost increases’"8.2×332k2.9k483436
41Apr 6, '25Your periodic - and increasingly urgent - reminder that Congress could stop this tomorrow.7.7×313k3.7k60865
42Apr 2, '25Putting both Brazil (widely considered to have relatively high trade barriers) and Singapore (a top free trader) at 10% is a perfect indicator of just how made-up these numbers are7.7×311k7k725301
43Oct 24, '25Guys, pls stop with the "Ackshully Reagan loved protectionism" BS. Yes, he imposed some narrow tariffs (they were bad). But he generally supported free trade - esp with Canada! - a7.4×299k7.3k1.9k557
44Oct 15, '24That MB factory-- - Is in Alabama, not SC (that's BMW) - Employs 6300 Americans & indirectly supports 10k other US jobs in the region - Invested more than $6B in the US economy (so7.3×296k4.5k1.7k250
45Nov 5, '25SG just admitted that Americans pay most of the tariffs. LOL. He's getting fired.7.2×290k6.7k528210
46Mar 21, '25So much for all that sweet, sweet tariff revenue7.0×284k4.7k1.4k289
47Oct 25, '25Lol. No.6.9×278k3k785261
48Mar 28, '25Seems weird Trump would demand this since foreign countries pay the tariffs6.8×276k6.4k1k244
49Apr 29, '25The hysterical response to a private business possibly choosing to show its customers a tax on their receipts is pretty much all you need to know about said tax and said responders6.8×273k14k1.3k327
50Nov 16, '24Win or lose, Tyson deserves a TON of credit for just staying up so late.5.8×235k3.6k24925
51Aug 21, '25Awesome news. Man, mRNA tech is so amazing, and it's especially cool the US is once again leading the wa-5.7×232k3.8k410260
52Feb 1, '25View post on X5.6×226k3.1k38493
53Nov 10, '24Dems going after dumb, costly regulations and the "licensing officials and regulators" who mindlessly enforce "the rules." More, please.5.6×225k3.5k305451
54Mar 11, '25View post on X5.5×222k4.6k670165
55Sep 7, '17Election Night 20165.3×010k3.8k0
56Mar 4, '25Imagine thinking this kind of artificial, antiquated poverty is, like, totally fine.4.7×188k3.8k21596
57Nov 13, '25View post on X4.4×179k11k58491
58Mar 13, '25"They're selling us stuff we want at very low prices! This must end!"4.4×178k5k547105
59Apr 3, '25One more time for those in the back: Tariffs are a 19th century tool being applied to a 21st century economy.4.4×178k3.4k657111
60Sep 6, '25Amazing* how quickly US immigration enforcement policy went from "we must protect the innocent victims of MS-13 violence" to "we will chain & perp-walk Korean engineers with th4.0×163k8.1k1.2k264
61Nov 10, '24100% correct.4.0×162k3.4k343158
62Oct 2, '25They really do think you're that stupid.3.8×154k3.6k41378
63Aug 6, '19The guy who lost money selling steaks, vodka, gambling & football may soon be piloting a global currency war I'm sure it'll be fine.3.6×08.6k1.8k39
64May 20, '22how is this website free3.4×010k601163
65Oct 25, '25I just rewatched this, and it's really interesting that an ad featuring literally nothing but Reagan quotes and happy pictures is being called a foreign political attack ad ("inter3.1×125k5.1k762207
66Mar 30, '25Pretty fun watching the guy who ran on tax cuts, lower prices, and military restraint pivot instantly to tax hikes, higher prices, and invading Greenland.2.9×115k3.8k661166
67Feb 21, '21A new, real-world Israeli study shows the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is almost 90% effective at stopping COVID-19 transmission (not just symptoms)2.7×05.3k1.5k183
68Dec 15, '19It'd mean I was a fool for responsibly paying off my loans.2.6×06.8k87212
69Aug 24, '21Eagerly awaiting the CDC's forthcoming "please do not eat llamas" PSA2.5×06.7k79832
70Dec 3, '17Unsurprising. That thing withstood decades of implosions.2.4×05.4k1.3k0
71Jun 4, '19Such an emotional moment for the Queen and Enrico Palazzo to meet almost 31 years after he saved her life in Los Angeles.2.3×05.1k1.2k41
72Aug 2, '25Counterpoint:2.2×88k4k27794
73Apr 7, '19My mortgage is also unfair.2.1×05.6k64720
74Feb 22, '20Cannot even imagine how hard Bernie took this.2.1×05.6k81811
75Dec 2, '16Your book was literally titled "IN TRUMP WE TRUST"2.1×03.8k1.6k0
76Jul 21, '19It...it's just...so...so beautiful.2.0×05.3k76729
77Feb 24, '22"the United States could, with a stroke of a pen, totally destroy the capacity of Russia to compete militarily or economically with us by offering a green card to any Russian with 2.0×04.7k686132
78Mar 2, '18The US steel industry produced 90 million tons of steel last year (up 5%) and had 72.5% of the US market.1.9×03.1k1.5k10
79Sep 23, '22Imagine a big disaster in a landlocked state; residents begging their fellow Americans for food, medicine, etc; BUT DC blocks the delivery trucks unless they're US-made/owned/opera1.8×04k1k66
80Jul 3, '17A *government* official closed a *public* beach for his personal use, and you blame whatnow?1.8×03.6k1.2k0
81Oct 6, '20We need a total and complete shutdown of Trump administration officials entering the rest of the country until our country's voters can figure out what the hell is going on.1.8×04.4k86016
82Dec 5, '17But they banned me from the food court (It wasn't me) Saw me cruisin' at the high school (It wasn't me) I even wrote it in her yearbook (It wasn't me) They even caught me on camera1.6×03.2k1.1k0
83Jun 25, '22"The study—published on June 23rd in Lancet Infectious Diseases—found that in the first year of vaccine rollout, jabs saved the lives of 19.1m-20.4m people. Without vaccines... rou1.6×02.8k950167
85Oct 17, '20Not all resources are finite. Take ignorance, for example.1.6×04.3k41142
86Jun 1, '18Q: How do Communists win twitter arguments? A: They seize the memes of production.1.5×03.6k7479
87Feb 11, '21We have lost our collective minds (ctd).1.5×03.2k76959
88Sep 6, '25View post on X1.4×57k3.1k16840
89Aug 12, '20Maybe the single best thing I've ever heard her say.1.4×03k685100
90Mar 6, '17And you'll never believe what happened next!1.4×02.4k1.1k0
91Jul 31, '19Marianne Williamson probably isn't going to be president but I could totally see her as Secretary of Love.1.4×03.7k3382
92Dec 4, '20BioNTech, a 🇩🇪 company founded by a 🇹🇷 immigrant (& the daughter of one), developed their vaccine in March (pre-OWS), & then partnered w/ Pfizer(🇺🇸), run by a 🇬🇷 na1.3×02.8k72158
93Jan 7, '21Gotta admit, this one stings1.3×02.6k57640
94Jul 8, '19Nobody ever tells you that parenthood is basically an infinite series of petty negotiations.1.2×02.7k51047
95Oct 13, '17Walmart's contribution to America's & the world's poor (plus the millions of jobs) is worth many times that $144B. And it's not even close.1.2×02.7k5750
96Nov 22, '18When you "like" tweets with a #HappyThanksgiving hashtag, a turkey face appears for a split second. Who needs flying cars?1.1×03.5k1543
97Jan 13, '19let's do it.1.1×02.8k4458
98Dec 24, '18This is the equivalent of being awakened by a phone call from your college freshman son, who then leads with "the important thing is that I'm totally fine and everything is totally0.9×02.3k40123
99Jan 28, '19First question: why is a "Grande" the medium?0.9×02.5k2385
100Sep 25, '191. The Biden request is alone sufficiently impeachable 2. The quid pro quo is pretty darn clear if you've ever watched a single episode of the Sopranos 3. The Crowdstrike request i0.9×02.2k31214
101Oct 13🚨NEW TODAY🚨 @CatoInstitute is launching Restoring Free Enterprise (@Cato_RFE): a multiyear, multimedia project to analyze the federal government's new & unprecedented ownership o0.5×19k92358

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