The administration argues that relying on imported metals could reduce demand for American-made materials, leaving the US with less domestic production and fewer critical supplies in the event of a national emergency.

And because brass instruments are made mostly from copper and zinc, they have been swept into the same net as fire extinguishers, floor safes, electrical cables, welding-machine parts, and tanker trailers.

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    Anything to make you forget he’s a sex offender pedophile drug addict with a hole in the top of his mouth

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      He’s paranoid someone will hide a gun in one. He’s lived most of his adult life afraid and the older he gets, the more afraid he is. It’s the same reason he eats fast food. He thinks it would be harder to poison him that way.

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    On the plus side, RFK Jr said eating aluminium foil is perfectly healthy. He even offered to teach some abdominal exercises that can help roll the foil around the roadkill in your gut, to help keep it unfresh between digestion cycles, which are totally a thing, too.

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    He Used Italian marble in the bathroom renovations at the White House.

    This is all nonsense.

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        I don’t consider myself particularly patriotic but I do feel like national state buildings should be made with materials from this country.

        It’s big enough. We have the basics here. Marble. Wood.

        Why not showcase this countries materials ?

        Also did you see the bathroom?. It’s so ugly.

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      All of the rules and laws he wants apparently have no jurisdiction on him. Just like hiring undocumented immigrants in his businesses

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    You can not make this up. The next person stating that this or that plot line or twist does not make sense needs to stop for a moment, take a deep breath and have a sip of water.

    I am waiting for a real life deus ex machina moment next.

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    The move is part of the Trump administration’s broader tariff strategy, which it says will encourage people to buy American-made goods and attract investment from foreign companies.

    So…isn’t this just an admission that it really has nothing to do with national security?

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    the tariffs that, again, the courts already ruled were unconstitutional. Trump doesn’t have the authority to levy taxes/tariffs. And yet, he keeps ordering tariffs around for bullshit national security reasons.

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      I cannot understand why Trump just says “Do these things that break the law” and everyone just fucking does it.

      I was actually shocked that he didn’t just coerce everyone into halting birthright citizenship

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        Because all the pedo-enablers are currently in power because they entertain the pedo president, specifically. Hence they do whatever he says because that’s how they stay in power. You can see from some recent movement in the Reps that they do know they need to offboard at the right moment, and they’re starting to prepare for that, but right now it’s how they stay in power.

        And, it adds that since Trump is constantly extracting the money of american taxpayers for his personal wealth via the control the presidency gives him, this system enables Republicans to largely get away with the same thing, hence they probably not only gain power but also massive wealth from it.

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        I mean, didnt he? He just put out an executive order to attack birthright citizenship immediately after and in response to the supreme court upholding that its a constitutional right. He doesnt give af what courts say, or the law says.

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    Watch trump putting ICE agents in the polling booths, just as Mussolini used to do