If it happens the team should be renamed as the Washington Orangeskins.

The orange Führer manages the economy about as well as he managed casinos. Straight into the ground. The American people have seen this film already.

If the Supremes act rationally (still a yuge assumption, I know), at least the orange tyrant won’t be able to impose One Big Beautiful tariffs again. He’ll have to reimpose his “reciprocal” duties piecemeal and face a few hurdles. Trump and his servants aren’t good with hurdles.

The tyranny has been reduced to using political loyalty tests. Meaning, of course, loyalty to the orange Führer.

You know, even after devoting much of my working life to trade policy, I never thought of tariffs as “life or death”. For me tariffs were always secondary to nontariff measures. NTBs are so much more precise. Good thing the orange tyrant doesn’t care about that.

I am so looking forward to this. Keeping my thumbs tucked (that’s the German version for crossing my fingers).

IEEPA was enacted in 1977 during the Tokyo Round trade talks. We were joined by Members of Congress in both tariff and non-tariff negotiations. I never saw any indicaton that they planned to give up their powers to control tariffs.

Trade in counterfeits is always with us. Too many still think the trade is about fake Rolexes. As a negotiator in the 1970s, we got policymakers to take counterfeits more seriously only after we discovered the trade in fake birth control pills and counterfeit parts for aircraft engines.

There is hope for a rational decision, but the Führer will apply maximum pressure for the irrational.

The American military, while bringing undoubted economic benefits, has abused Hawaii’s land and waters since territorial days. I have personally seen the obliteration of the island of Kaho’olawe. But base leases are expiring and we are going to be just as transactional as the Trump regime.

There’s a word in Hawaiian that Democrats should embrace. Every competitor in Hawai’i understands it, whether in politics, business or sports. This powerful word is “imua”. It means to advance or to go forward, with a connotation of determined strength. Democrats have momentum now. Imua!

The Global Air Monitoring Program had outsize favorable impact for the United States, but was in DOGE’s sights because it was “environmental”. I had the good fortune to work in the 1980s on a predecessor: Taiwan’s first island-wide air pollution monitoring system.

It’s hard to know what the orange Führer may be aware of, but I am confident that someone has told him that Nigeria has oil reserves. Bigly.

Forty years ago I accompanied officials from the Federated States of Micronesia on a mission to China. When we arrived in Beijing, we had to scrounge an atlas to show Chinese officials where Micronesia is. They had no idea. Things have changed.

It’s amazing how the orange Führer’s tariffs seem especially well targeted on MAGA communities.

Just how supine will the orange Führer’s six captives be?

The Trumpistas have never understood the military’s rules or attitudes towards classified information. Nor do they credit the Foreign Service for the same rules and attitudes. They must think we all share classified info on Signal chats like they do.

The orange toddler gets off on making his own country the world’s most unreliable negotiating partner. It will be years before the United States will be trusted again.

Trumpian tariffs may even decide which games you play.

We can call off the witch hunt. We found one.

I assume the APEC leaders were greatly relieved when the orange buffoon took his toys and went home. But what was Der Führer thinking when he voluntarily gave the stage to Xi Jin Ping?

Ronald Reagan would approve.

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“… everything — everything — Trump has done on trade has, in addition to its illegality, been a violation of past U.S. agreements with other countries. So we emerge from the trade war as a nation that can no longer be trusted to honor its promises.“

I have bought from Harry & David for years, but I am reconsidering. I just made another purchase and, after I did so, my web browser informed me that the Harry & David website attempted to install trackers on me 4,926 times. Be warned. This is a company that despises your privacy.

Well … I guess the orange buffoon can kiss his Nobel Prize goodbye.

I’ve worked with Neal Urwitz. Always worth a read.

Republicans are practicing self-abuse by stopping the SNAP program. One argument Krugman left out: the orange Führer talks loudly about his love for farmers, but how does he help farmers by cutting aggregate demand for their products?

The orange Führer really has a thing about facts. They have this habit of showing Americans how bigly he lies to them.

I read Lynn’s piece and wondered what he had been smoking. Here’s the rebuttal. We economists are not in a mood to repent.

Krugman is spot on. In 1982, I headed up the Commerce Department’s Industry Advisory Committee Program for trade negotiations. Earlier, under Reagan, I ran Commerce’s Trade Negotiations Division. I saw Reagan’s trade policy up close and personal. Trump, you’re not a Ronald Reagan.

Trump and his MAGAts appear to really get off on the suffering of others who are less well off than they are. This time many of the MAGAts may be in for an unwelcome surprise.

Democratic Wins Media In defiance of Vladimir Putin and Viktor Orban, protestors in Hungary stormed the streets to voice their opposition to authoritarianism. This is being almost entirely ignored by mainstream media. Let’s make it go viral.

You don’t invest in gold, you speculate or gamble in it. I’m not a speculator so I agree with Ben Carlson 100%. He does dabble in Bitcoin, which I emphatically do not. The only practical use for it is money laundering, which is not compatible with my retirement.

Murder. Extrajudicial murder.

Tariffs are coming to get you, Donald. Trade wars can be so easy to lose.

The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.

Which areas are experiencing the biggest adverse impact from the Trumpian shutdown? Washington, DC naturally, but then come Hawaii and New Mexico. Before Virginia and Maryland.

Memo for the orange tyrant: It’s harder to win a trade war when you pick on suppliers who really aren’t that dependent on your market.

Tonight’s letter is a must read.

Can you believe it?! The great orange conman lied to us about tariffs!

Initial Trumpian tariffs threw the average U.S. tariff (30%) back to the early 1900s. All his TACOs have allowed us to claw back to Depression levels (19.2%). Such impressive progress.

We’re not having “No Kings Day” in Hawaii. We’re calling it “No Dictators Day”. That’s because we have a minority that would like to restore Hawai’s monarchy. American-led planters overthrew the kingdom early in the 1890s and formed a republic before Hawaii was annexed by the United States.

Yet another clue that the orange tyrant’s economy is heading for the dumpster.

Hey, Stable Genius, what could possibly go wrong?

Sounds like the orange Führer is cooking up some more TACOs.

The orange Führer is gutting American diplomacy. I lived the diplomatic life. This AFSA statement doesn’t begin to scratch the surface that is being done to America’s position in the world.

The orange Führer is doing his best to destroy trust in government-produced statistics. Good thing we’ve got other measures to tell what’s happening.

The orange tyrant’s hatred and suspicion for science and expertise mean that the United States will finish a very distant second in our race with China.

Cooking oil? Really?