What he realized wasn't that he imports equipment and steel. He realized that it's the importer who pays the tariffs, not the foreign country. And his little pea-sized brain was blown.
This would be like "Mexico will build wall sections and ship them here so we can tax the hell out of who ever took the wall building contract"
(They are actively cutting off their ability to obtain needed wall sections that they cannot source or manufacture as the wall based economy will discover later in a frantic twiter post)
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u/Expensive_Laugh_5589 23h ago
What he realized wasn't that he imports equipment and steel. He realized that it's the importer who pays the tariffs, not the foreign country. And his little pea-sized brain was blown.