THE TARIFF STORY THE CORPORATE MEDIA WON'T TELL US

(August 27, 2025):    The story they won't tell us is that in The United States, The President does NOT control tariffs - The Congress does:  And this is a very important point, because it means that all the blame being put on an out-of-control President Trump is not the true story.  

It is NOT an out-of-control president who is doing this Tariff Craziness to Canada and the rest of the world.  The fact that The Congress is allowing him to do this, and the corporate media almost never talk about it, shows (in my opinion) that the full U.S. deep-state Government fully approve of the tariff lunacy that President Trump has brought to the world since his inauguration only eight months ago.  

And I am not opposed to tariffs, I think they can and should play an important role in a nation's economic strategies.  But President Trump is giving tariffs a bad name - and turning the entire world against the United States. Canada is now looking for 'new partners'.  As is the E.U.  As is India.  And Brazil and Japan and etc.  All these nations have been hit and angered by Trump's crazy tariff policies - where the tariffs go up and down and then get canceled and then brought back - and are driving everyone crazy.  

Imagine if The United States had A Real Congress and A Real Free Press.  In that case, the Congress could bring in a sane and reasonable tariff policy, giving other nations a sensible tariff plan to look at and giving everyone time to react.  Nothing would be done overnight as Trump has done again and again.  There would be time for industries and nations to react.  It could all make sense and it could work well.  That's what The Congressional Leadership 'could' have done.   But instead they have done just about nothing.  

And the U.S. corporate media is betraying the American people by not informing them of the real tariff powers of the Congress, and is not putting pressure on the Congress to bring in a sane tariff policy.  What Trump is doing is unconstitutional, but the media won't tell the American people that fact. Why not?  Is it because the owners of the media support Trump's tariff policies and don't want the American people to know the truth of what's going on and the Congress' role in all this?

If they didn't support Trump's tariffs, they would try to stop them from happening.  But it's pretty clear they don't want to be talking about the real tariff story.  And there should be a lot of questions about ... 'why not'.  

So clearly (in my opinion) the Congressional Leadership of both parties, certainly including the Democratic Party Leadership, fully support what President Trump is doing.  And so do the owners of the corporate media.  And what he is doing is isolating America and seemingly weakening it, and removing it to some extent from its position as 'the world leader'.    And both the Congress and the Media are going along with it.  Which I think means that destabilizing the United States IS the official plan.  

For example, look at the anger in Canada towards the United States because of Trump's tariffs. Our media and political leaders have been telling us for months that the old relationship with The United States is over.  Which means we are looking for new trade and security partners.  And much of the rest of the world is in the same boat.  So, it is - in many ways - chaos.  Which is not a good thing; but which does seem to be the plan right now.  

If these crazy tariff policies were being done by an out-of-control president, that's one thing... but it really looks like the Congressional leadership and the media are also complicit because they are letting Trump do it.  He is turning the United States into a country whose friends and allies and trading partners can't trust and don't know how to deal with.  Which means the United States is potentially losing friends and allies and trading partners. 

To me, this means that the United States is being deliberately weakened and isolated.  Trump is doing it but he is able to do it only because the Congress is doing nothing and the media are silent.  

And this is the tariff story that the corporate media won't tell us.  It seems the mantel of power is being moved away from the United States.  It's being blamed on Trump, but I think the reality is much deeper than that. 

https://pacificlegal.org/the-president-doesnt-have-the-power-to-set-tariffs-congress-does/