Wait! Did I just that steel and aluminum is among the things the US....

[imanamerican63]

gonna trade from the UK? What happened to production of those two things here in America? Remember putting America back to work?? Another example of Trump screwing over his base with more lies!

[Diamond_Dog]

1. That dumbass has absolutely no idea what he's doing.

[brush]

2. Yep, like steel and aluminum plants are going to materialize instantly here...

and provide American jobs immediately. The moron still deosn't seem to get that tariffs are not paid by foreign countries.

[Jerry2144]

5. Not only that but the equipment and machines and furnaces

Inside a steel foundry are probably made overseas and will take many months to build, skip, install, test, then operate. Will his stupid idea of tariffs apply on the equipment you actually do the manufacturing here in the US?

It’s not like the Helpful Hardware Folk have blast furnaces on sale with a BOGO, let alone in stock

[brush]

9. Word! We have a moron for a president who doesn't understand economics...

101, and a mean, arrogant, always lecturing someone VP just itching to invoke the 25th Amendment.

The rethugs in Congress know trump is losing/has lost his faculties but are still to cowardly to retake the powers of the purse he has usurped from them.

The next few months are going to be rough as the tariffs on imported goods still haven't fully kicked in.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. 72 % of US aluminum comes from Canada bc we have hydroelectricity. He put 25% tax on it. . . . nt

[Lithos]

7. The resident has no clue Aluminum requires a ton of electricity

So, having a consistent supply of energy is important. Even before people could conceive of building Aluminum capacity, we'll have to build out the rest of the supporting infrastructure. Looking at 10-20 years.

L-

[Silent Type]

3. The MFer knows how to promote junk deals and make it sound like he's saving us from famine and painful death.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Their own charts are saying $6 B and $5 B, which is a drop in the bucket. Prob over-optimistic too. . . nt

[Baitball Blogger]

4. What choice did they have?

Even if Trump is too stupid to see it, everyone else knows about the Time Conundrum. No company is going to make it to Trump's mythical Golden Age. Everyone will go under long before that foundation is laid out on the first factory built in America.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. He lied twice, 2 whoppers: $1.1 trillion trade with China, repeated lie that no trade equals no loss. . . . nt

[Bev54]

11. Sure let's make a deal across the pond when steel and aluminum is on their doorstep in Canada

Doesn't make a lot of sense.

[Doodley]

12. All Trump needed was to be able to say the word "deal." MAGAs will lap that up. Details aren't important.

[muriel_volestrangler]

13. About 1% of US aluminium imports (by value) come from the UK; about 1.5% for steel

https://www.pesmedia.com/us-aluminium-tariffs-threaten-uk-industry-stability
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/imports/aluminum
https://www.uksteel.org/steel-news-2025/us-25-tariffs-on-uk-steel-imports-come-into-effect
https://www.tradeimex.in/blogs/us-steel-import-data-list-of-top-us-steel-buyers-and-imports-by-country

This is not a big deal. Literally.