An invitation to the national sacrifice falls

When Donald Trump announced this week that American children would have to do with fewer games on Christmas, unexpected comparisons were drawn into famous personalities of history.

“It seemed as if Mary Antoinette says” let them eat a cake, “said White Aires, a Republican poll expert.

Economists and businessmen have warned weeks ago that the president was 145 percent tariff On China, the prices of ordinary Americans will raise. The White House has constantly pushed this narration.

But Wednesday, the mask fell. Trump said China has achieved “a trillion dollars … we sold things, (and many of them do not need it.”

He said that people were warning of empty shelves and “maybe children will have two dolls instead of 30 blood … and they may cost the dolls a few dollars more than they were usually.” But “we have to conclude a fair deal.”

Here the president recognized his commercial war might cause real hardship for voters – whom many chose to reduce the cost of living and increase growth.

Trump’s enemies cannot believe their luck. They mocked him on social media as “Greench” who stole Christmas “and” SCROOGE MCTROMP “. One television provider, directs SopranoAnd called him “Donnie 2 dolls”.

Mike Drucker, comic, comedy, comedy, comedy, comedy, comedy, comedy, comedy, comedy, comedy who wrote on X. “your family will have less, but it will be the most expensive.”

Trump is not the first president to demand the sacrifices of the American people. After attacking Perl Harbor and the United States entered the Second World War, Franklin de Roosevelt called for the “Self -denial” program, with higher taxes and goods.

He said in April 1942: “We are all used to spending money on the things we want, and things are not very necessary. We will all have to give up this kind of spending.”

Julian Zelizer, a professor of political history at the University of Princeton, said that FDR was carrying weight because they were dealing with the national emergencies resulting from war and revolution.

“This is a crisis created by the person who is asking you to make a sacrifice,” he said. “So it is less convincing.”

Trump’s neutralization of a political discourse is similar to Jimmy Carter’s speech in July 1979 at the height of the oil crisis in the Middle East, when he called on citizens to “control your thermostat to provide fuel.” He went to lose the presidency of Ronald Reagan in a landslide the following year.

Consumers interacted with Trump’s call. “Does this mean that I will have to store dolls for my grandchildren now?” Sherrill, Jeddah, said in the seventies of the last century while shopping in Austin, Texas. “My husband is already talking about toilet paper storage.”

Trump’s comments are part of a set of statements from the White House that eliminate trading with China. “The American dream does not depend on the cheap ornaments of China,” Scott betThe Treasury Secretary said, in March. “We focus on the ability to bear costs, but they are real estate loans, they are cars, they are real wages.”

Such comments horrified the Yimaren makers. “I was attacked by my government,” said Rick Woldenburg, CEO of the learning company, an Illinois -based company that manufactures games and educational products and is manufactured in China for four decades.

He added: “The distortion of what we do and say that these things are trivial and unimportant and people should do without them – it is just insulting.” “We don’t think we create piles of plastic for people.”

Large names in the industry witnessed declines in the large stock market. Mattel, Barbie Dolls, fell 18 percent since “Tahrir Day” in April, when Trump revealed his mutual definition.

The customs tariff will be “catastrophic”, and expects “30-40 percent sales to decrease.”

The company gets 65 percent of its products from Chinese factories, and customs duties will force them to raise prices significantly-from $ 15 to $ 29 for Bratz doll, one of the most popular elements.

“If the definitions are not reduced, we will have to get rid of people, including people in our factory here, are already making games in the United States,” said Lyran, who said he voted for Trump last November.

He requests “postponement for two to three years” on import drawings, similar to the exemption that Trump allowed smartphones and computers, while MGA continues to invest at a value of $ 40 million in a new factory on the American region. “This will give him an opportunity to save Christmas,” he said.

However, there is no sign of a break in the trade war, with disturbing effects on the economy. The Yale University budget laboratory estimated that the definitions announced by Trump worldwide to take office will reduce American economic growth by 1.1 percent in 2025.

Some evidence shows that they burn people’s willingness to spend. The Michigan University’s April Moralization Index in April reached 52.2, a decrease from 57 in March, while inflation forecasts in the year increased 5 percent in March to 6.5 percent in April, its highest reading since 1981.

Trump insisted that customs tariffs are a necessary drug for the patient who depends a lot on imported goods. They will be forced, as he says, to transfer manufacturing chains and supply to the American heart while the real cost of definitions will be borne by exporting countries, not American consumers.

But voters express increasing doubts about Trump’s economic policies. A poll recently gave him obtaining approval of only 42 percent, which is a historical low level for the president early.

Perhaps what is most worried about the White House, it seems that voters are losing confidence in dealing with the economy – one of his most powerful suits in the November elections.

There is nothing wrong with the voters asking the voters to sacrifice, but “you have to give them a really clear reason.”

The White House said the definitions needed to increase revenues and help budget budget, isolate China, and to re -manufacture, and in the case of Mexico and Canada, to reduce the smuggling of fentanel and illegal immigration.

“These reasons are not all correct at the same time,” he said.

Participated in additional reports by Christina Shevuri in Austin.