Explain this contradiction from His Derangedness.
trump:
The president over the weekend told Walmart's executives that they should absorb any increased costs that he has created on imported goods through trade policies.
"I’ll be watching, and so will your customers!!!" Trump
wrote as he demanded Wal-Mart and China simply "eat the tariffs."
The sane world:
But that didn't sit well with many longtime Trump onlookers, who observed that the president previously said no one would need to eat the tariffs.
Author
James Surowiecki said, "But Trump has said over and over again that foreign countries pay tariffs, not US businesses or consumers."
"If that's true, why would Walmart have to eat anything?" he then asked.
NBC political analyst
Stephen Hayes likewise asked, "Why would Walmart need to 'eat the tariffs' if, as Trump has long claimed, 'a tariff is a tax on a foreign country'? (8/17/24, Wilkes-Barre, PA)."
Editor
Jonah Goldberg chimed in, "I’m old enough to remember — because I’m not a newborn infant — when Trump said tariffs were paid by other countries."