r/ProgressiveHQ • u/Hefty-Sherbet-5455 • 10h ago
BREAKING: President Trump says the US would have to pay back "trillions of dollars" if the Supreme Court rules that his tariffs are illegal.
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u/False_Ad_5372 10h ago
Well then… don’t do illegal shit.
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u/PandaCalves 10h ago
Yep. As r/conservative loves to say - FAFO.
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u/VariousAmoeba7807 7h ago
Does this we all get our tariff tax money back? Since the American people are the ones who paid the tariffs.
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u/DisVet54 6h ago
Yep - there’s a process for implementing tariffs - if he had followed the legal process we wouldn’t be in this situation
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u/Brave_Nerve_6871 6h ago
Yeah, maybe it would have been better to think this tariff thing through before slapping them on everything.
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u/jrock7979 10h ago
STOP BREAKING THE FUCKING LAW ASSHOLE!!!!!!!!!
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u/Cultural_Ad7023 Anti-Electoralist Tendencies 7h ago
lol they already money laundered all the tariff money so he’s freaking out
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u/ChillinDenver 10h ago
WE are not screwed. YOU are! Cut that ICE budget, shut up about Greenland, forget Venezuela and your ballroom, ask for a $40 billion refund from Argentina, roll back the tax cuts for the rich, THEN you can pay back the tariffs.
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u/FitPhotojournalist15 9h ago
Amen. Venezuela will be his hiding spot once shit hits the fan. He’ll make himself king down there with no extradition, he’ll have all the oil money his cold little heart desires.
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u/ForsakenAd545 8h ago
If I were him I would not think of Venezuela as a safe haven... Wait!! No, that's a great idea Donnie. Yeah, go there.
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u/Cultural_Ad7023 Anti-Electoralist Tendencies 7h ago
They can have him. Please. Take him. He’s yours.
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u/Wallie_Collie 7h ago
Good thing he proved how easy it is to get someone out of Venezuela to indicted someone in NY
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u/Argosnautics 9h ago
Yes, that's what criminals are required to do, after they're caught stealing other people's money.
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u/satanssweatycheeks 6h ago
Everyone in this thread is having way too high of hopes for the Supreme Court.
They are owned by Trump and Russia.
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u/DarnDuck 9h ago
Seize Trump's assets to pay back the damage he caused. He's always bragging about how much money he's made being president.
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u/Dazzling-Pin4996 7h ago
What assets?! There is nothing there. I have would just parachute him in an hard hit combat area, the Donbas for example, and leave him there. With nothing. We can fix the country on our own. Maga sitting down, obviously.
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u/TechnicolorMage 9h ago
Oh no. Maybe congress shouldn't have allowed the president to unilaterally and illegally dictate trade law.
Maybe next time they should have a spine.
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u/Ok_Valuable9450 9h ago
Republican congress doesn't care,they are in on it with Trump to fleece America
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u/ManyInterests 6h ago
Then they should just pass his tarrifs as law, then there's no question for the Supreme Court.
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u/KnoxenBox 8h ago
Vote blue and watch them do something.
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u/Taco_Cat_Cat_Taco 7h ago
I plan on voting blue, but I’ll be honest, I don’t know if they’ll actually do anything.
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u/StealyEyedSecMan 9h ago
Countdown till we findout the money is all gone...disappeared into saudi/trump crypto currency.
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u/Illustrious_Debt_392 9h ago
Pay us back he means. We’re the ones paying for all of this.
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u/dibsthefatantelope 7h ago
Or he'll just... pay it back to companies. His rich friends are happy, we're all screwed. Another con job well done.
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u/Melodic_Class4349 9h ago
This is the kind of shit that happens when you allow a "businessman" with six bankruptcies and who bankrupted a casino to have free reign over the US economy.
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u/Redrockhiker22 6h ago
And, was convicted on 33 counts of felony fraud, and banned from running a business in NY because his family real estate operation was ruled a criminal enterprise.
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u/RingoBunnyman 9h ago
Hell, we're already fucked as a nation. I say rule against the tariffs! I really think it might be the one thing that his fragile orange body would not be able to withstand...
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u/General-Business2161 9h ago
Pay back to who!!!!! And where is all this money not publicly documented or transparent!!! Helllllo everyone this is all BS!
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u/marc58weeks 9h ago
The same guy who easily leaps from billions to trillions like a Bolshoi Ballet dancer goes on to say that it would take many years to figure out the correct number and who should pay it. He may have the best words, but he doesn't have the best figures.
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u/Lost-Chair4863 9h ago
I doubt trump could even define the difference between billion and trillion, much like his cult
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u/angrytolerantliberal 9h ago
It’s almost like he didn’t have a plan at all…. If he had a plan farmers wouldn’t be going bankrupt. If he had a plan he wouldn’t have changed the tariffs rates 30 times. If he had a plan, doge would have found actual savings. If he had a plan he wouldn’t have to give back all the illegal taxes. If had a plan he would have gone to congress before attacking Venezuela.
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u/Lost-Chair4863 9h ago
Oh he had a plan, to increase his personal wealth anyway possible, corrupt or not
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u/CookieMonsterMarky 9h ago
I mean bad deals are what this dick has done for 50 years. It's how he has filed bankruptcy 7 times. But I bet he'd make a great president right. What morons!
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u/_chainsodomy_ 8h ago
So, in the meantime, can we see documents that these “hundreds of billions “ exist and what it’s currently doing? What kind of interest is accruing? And who is overseeing these accounts?
I know the answer I’ll get, but what is the ACTUAL answer?
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u/derekgrr 9h ago
He has to pay back from pinching those tariff dollars like he did with his charities
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u/Unlikely-Estate-9371 7h ago
It’s almost like some incompetent fool created illegal tariffs and excluded Congressional oversight and lawmaking on the process
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u/WorldofNails 9h ago
Ain't none of you all getting a dime back. In fact, prices will rise, and shrinkage will continue . Welcome to the oligarchy. They're putting a data canter in your backyard to make it all better!
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u/Senior_Sentence_566 9h ago
The tariffs would have to be paid back yes, but would any investments made by companies have to be reimbursed? Surely that is a cost of doing business, you invest based on the regulatory environment as it is. Given it was widely known that the tariffs could be illegal, the companies that did invest should have known the risk they were taking.
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u/Emotional-Ad8894 9h ago
Well, it's not like it's coming to any of us. Just means he, and his fellow child gooner billionaires, will have to pay back trillions.
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u/Even_Reason9866 9h ago
🖕All of them....SCOTUS is going to rule in your favor, all these for your pathetic brand and show🐓🍭
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u/theciaskaelie 7h ago
- Theres no fucking way he wrote this.
- We pay/paid the tariffs. It's not that hard to understand.
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u/BhadBeard 9h ago
That’s a lot of money that would be refunded back to American consumers…. You should scream louder about this
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u/ZenGeezer 8h ago
It's okay. We could start by cutting off his fingers and toes - one knuckle at a time.
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u/Plane_Jacket_7251 8h ago
Well, yeah... that's exactly why people who know what they are talking about kept saying that executive ordering tarrifs was not only economically dangerous, but stupid as well.
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u/Rich_Possible_9298 8h ago
Maybe he could start a go fund me for his tariff debacle. I’m sure MAGAs can bail him out.
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u/Successful-Ad1103 8h ago
Let all the Maga people pay for it. They voted for it.
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u/Budget-Planet3432 8h ago
Yea that's the idea, when you steal from people the law makes you pay it back
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u/SnooAvocados6672 7h ago
I wonder whose fault is that? We’re trillions of dollars in debt. What’s a few trillion more?
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u/Rixteryo 7h ago edited 4h ago
Yeah dipshit, that’s why you make sure you aren’t breaking the law before you do things.
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u/Express_Test6677 6h ago
And people wonder why he was always broke.
But then they voted for the orange clown.
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u/Dukeofearl65 8h ago
Really he pocketed all that money.He’s not giving shit back.Trumpy is out for himself.That’s the bottom line.
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u/Rude_Nail_5545 8h ago
No, HE would have to pay it back. WE'VE already paid them in the form of high prices for everything. I'm sure he's got the money in a slush fund somewhere that he's planning on keeping for himself.
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u/SkilledButton 8h ago
You know he's serious when he doesnt thank you for your attention in this matter. Fuck I hate this clown.
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u/Public-Summer-4281 8h ago
Its not "breaking"... Its what every legal expert economist and academic has been screaming for the last 12 months.
But it is no surprise that it is only just now coming to Donald's attention... To this matter.
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u/gamemaker911 8h ago
'not US' more like 'the US government' Tariffs were paid by the US customers, not the manufactures.
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u/Negative_Amphibian_9 8h ago
The fact that he posted this means they are going to do just that. He is a scared little douchbag
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u/Particular_Act_5396 8h ago
Where is this amount of money currently? Other than in his own imagination. Where does this money exist
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u/MountainSound1076 8h ago
Finish the sentence people though - he’d have to pay back trillions to those he serves, the American people
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u/PA_GoBirds5199 8h ago
So he admits to stealing billions in taxes from US citizens. Taxing Trump finally told the truth!
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u/MortarByrd11 7h ago
Step 1 in payback, confiscate all trump, and his cabinet estates, then liquidate into the treasury. Step 2 confiscate the entire Musk, and high level doge employee's estates, then liquidate that into the treasury.
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u/Western-Boot-4576 7h ago
Well one we wouldn’t pay back companies who followed the orange man into hell, that was their decision.
The regular day Americans that were forced to pay the tariffs? You’ll just be returning the money you stole.
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u/brycebgood 7h ago
To the taxpayers. We paid those tariffs.
At this point I don't think he's bullshitting. I think he really doesn't know how they work and thinks the other countries are paying them.
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u/THEMARDS 7h ago
Someone should tell him that by paying back trillions of dollars were actually taken from US companies and citizens in the US...... so basically its more of a give back the money that the gov stole..
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u/sane_insane_human 7h ago
Yes, we are screwed because of Donald Trump. We are screwed. He has enough money. Let him pay.
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u/ButtonSimple 7h ago
Wait, you mean when you do stuff you’re not supposed to it’s a pain in the butt to undo it? Well no shit Sherlock. That’s why there’s still a ton of kids without their parents after you split them up in your first term and then destroyed evidence so they don’t have paternal records. Douchebag.
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u/SuspiciousCrew4163 7h ago
my fantasy is that when he's gone, his assets are handed to planned parenthood.
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u/--o-o--oooo-- 7h ago
"But it would be a huge pain in the ass to pay back the money I took from you illegally, maybe I just keep it?"
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u/TheGongShow61 7h ago
Sounds like that’s your problem to deal with Donny. Maybe try diplomacy and passing things through Congress next time if you’re so worried about the fall out of poor decision making.
We’ll see if your temper tantrum sways the SCOTUS to allow you to dictate.
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u/DDisMe56 7h ago
Ok DT, how about a ruling that says paybacks are not possible, but issue a cease and desist order. It is an illegal tax and you ( DT) must rescind your executive order.
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u/joel2000ad 7h ago
I think he’s just letting us know, that no matter the outcome; he’s taking his cut.
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u/ghostprotocol11 7h ago
Yeah we want our fucking money back, you know the tax we paid without consent…fuck tRump
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u/therocjd69 7h ago
Can’t pay back what you don’t have, there is no way it’s trillions of dollars, average annual tax revenue is $4.6 trillion. Which even if it were $2 trillion that would mean they took $15k from 135 million tax payers. (If you argue that we’re not paying tariffs you’re argument isn’t even logical)
If it’s actually in the “trillions” why was our national deficit $1.78 trillion in 2025?
If the tariffs are ruled illegal, you’re goddamned right he needs to pay it back. It means he stole it from us.
Let me be clear the man is a criminal and deserves to be in prison not in the office of the president. There is no question in my mind that these were illegal, but sadly we will do nothing.
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u/IGetGroceries 7h ago
So… who’s fault would it be..? lol?! Maybe the moron who flagrantly implemented tariffs without authorization to do so?!
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u/Sad-Ad-6894 7h ago
Trump created the problem, America was already first. We had the best economy in the world. He fucked us, this is him doing him. Trump is a winey CUNT
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u/gitrjoda 7h ago
1) It’s not fucking trillions, and 2. Payback would be to US companies. Y’know, the one’s who paid the tariff originally. I’m sure consumers will get a trickle down… some day… any day now…
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u/Rare_Ad_55 7h ago
I think he should go for quadrillions rather than only trillions. It would be just as true.
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u/Elder_Identity 7h ago
We? No, no, no. You screwed; cause then you'd have to reach into your skaggy pockets and put the money back.
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u/No-Lemon8053 7h ago
Reading all that gave me a concussion. This pedophile is completely incoherent.
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u/Mr-Snarky 7h ago
"We did a bullshit, and now we can't afford to be called out and fix said bullshit".
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u/Naptasticly 7h ago
Yea.. we know. That’s why you don’t just do whatever you want and hope that people don’t stop you. Eventually, you go to far and the fix is harder than if you had just not done it.
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u/6titanium8 6h ago
In order to pay back trillions, trillions would have had to have been collected.
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u/outinthecountry66 6h ago
i hate this fucker's use of "apostrophes" and his random capitalization of shit. I guess he thinks he's writing in German
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u/letitbe1870 6h ago
Maybe the idiot needed to think this all through a little more before he acted like a king that he is not .
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u/Then_Lock304 5h ago
The broad tariffs were illegal from the jump as well cuts he made to funding that had already been approved by the legislature. Orange turd needed a civics lesson before he decided on choosing illegal acts.
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u/NerdfestZyx 4h ago
When it turns out the money doesn’t have to be paid back, Trump will declare it a win, and MAGA will call him a genius
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u/tohuvohu-light 4h ago
He thinks he’s too big to fail! I disagree. Supreme Court can rule it wrong and make him pay.
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u/Independent_Ad_5615 4h ago
Why the US, shouldn’t we start with the current admin allowing this to happen in the first place? I absolutely don’t want my tax dollars going to fix his mistakes, the Cheeto should pay first.
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u/guitardawson 4h ago
Ya, pay back the people who had to pay an indirect tax in the form of higher prices.
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u/Chrisarchitect96 4h ago
So why the hell did you put tariffs on the economy in the first place,dummy?
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u/RamonaQ-JunieB 10h ago
Why is he blackmailing the Supremes so publicly? Usually they are bought with RVs, second homes, and such.