Tariffs in Red are the countries that Healthy Traditions currently imports food from, and their rate of tariffs.

by Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News

After Trump’s “Liberation Day” yesterday, where his “reciprocal tariffs” against various countries were announced, the U.S. Stock Market fell in its worst trading day since early in the COVID-19 Scandemic in 2020.

The fact that Trump’s announcement of tariffs caused such a huge market crash, did not bother Trump one bit, as he announced: “The patient lived,” and “is now healing,” as he left the White House to attend a Saudi golf gala at his Mar-a-Lago resort.

Trump defends tariffs, claiming ‘the patient lived’ amid meltdown

President Trump Thursday defended his shocking plan for massive tariffs by claiming “the patient lived,” a less-than-reassuring message about the American economy as global markets melted down in a stunning sell off that knocked more than 1,600 points off the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

“The operation is over. The patent lived, and is healing,” Trump wrote on his social media site.

“The prognosis is that the patient will be far stronger, bigger, better, and more resilient than ever before.”

Market indexes kept dropping through the day with the Dow Jones Industrial Average ending down about 4% and the tech-heavy Nasdaq losing about 6% in their worst day since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The president later repeated the sick patient analogy as he left the White House to attend a Saudi golf gala at his Mar-a-Lago resort. (Source.)

Trump is claiming to be the “physician” of America, again, who claims to know how to “cure” America. This is not too different from what he did in 2020 where he announced a “cure” for America’s “infection” with the COVID-19 “virus,” COVID-19 “vaccines.”

How well did that work out for everyone?

2004 Democratic Campaign Logo for the Presidential Election, which George W. Bush won.

It is true that economic hardship awaited Americans, and by proxy the rest of the world, even if Trump had not started these tariffs, due to our debt-based culture, and the growth of the U.S. debt.

But can we trust that President Trump is doing what is best for America, since he has continuously lied about so much, such as the fake “fentanyl crisis” that he claims is coming over the border from Canada, to justify these tariffs?

The debt-based culture of the U.S. started way back during the 1930s under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and then accelerated in the 1980s under the Presidency of Ronald Reagan, who increased the national debt by $1.86 trillion, or by 186%. 

It continued under President George W. Bush, who added $5.85 trillion to the national debt, a 101% increase. (Source.)

In the 2004 Presidential elections, offshoring U.S. jobs became a major campaign issue, for the Democrats.

Here is an article published by Forbes from Feb 18, 2004, reporting on what then was a major Democratic position on outsourcing U.S. jobs to foreign countries, which was seen as a major problem under President Bush.

The Politics Of Outsourcing

Excerpts (emphasis mine):

On the evening of Feb. 17, the two leading U.S. Democratic presidential nominees derided the loss of U.S. jobs to foreign countries. They claimed that, if elected, they would implement ambitious plans to keep jobs in the United States.

You can’t put the genie back in the bottle. The jobs that have been lost will not return and, in fact, more white-collar jobs will leave the U.S. as companies continue to cut costs to remain competitive.

Outsourcing has become one of the hot-button political issues of this presidential election season. It’s not surprising that Democrats are blaming President George W. Bush for the loss of U.S. jobs and what has been–so far–a jobless economic recovery, with gross domestic product having grown much faster than the unemployment rate has dropped.

The Democratic front-runners, Sen. John Kerry from Massachusetts and Sen. John Edwards from North Carolina, each propose tax incentives for companies that keep jobs in the U.S.

Kerry also proposes a permanent tax credit on research and development spending, as well as the elimination of capital gains taxes for investments in small companies that are held for a minimum of four years. (Source.)

Democrats in 2004 ran on a Presidential platform of “proposing tax incentives for companies that keep jobs in the U.S.,” and “the elimination of capital gains taxes for investments in small companies that are held for a minimum of four years“?

But Bush went on to win the election, furthering the National debt with massive amounts of government money flowing into the U.S. Intelligence agencies to fund the Bill he passed during his first term, just after the “attacks” on 9/11, The Patriot Act, and to also fund the U.S. military enterprises in Iraq and Afghanistan.

And now here we are, 20 years later, and these policies of keeping jobs in the U.S. that were part of the Democratic platform in 2004, are the very things that Trump is proposing.

Source. Click on to enlarge.

Trump has convinced his support base that the U.S. has been victimized by other countries because the U.S. has such a huge trade deficit with them.

But the facts clearly show that this trade deficit is 100% the fault of U.S. monetary policies, and America’s addiction to cheap products to support their lifestyle.

And a huge part of that problem is America’s over-reliance on technology, and the belief that one day technology can manufacture products cheaper than humans can.

Going back to that 2004 Forbes article written 20 years ago, we can see that this addiction and belief in the technology was already in full force affecting U.S. monetary policies.

The latter initiatives are a nod to the notion that job growth can only be achieved through technological innovation. Indeed, captains of industry have coalesced behind this idea and may have a better shot at making sure the U.S. does not lose its status as the world’s leading technical innovator.

In October, IBM Chief Executive Samuel J. Palmisano announced the National Innovation Initiative, co-chaired by the president of Georgia Technical Institute. The NII is an offshoot of the Council on Competitiveness, which was formed 20 years ago as the U.S. was losing market share to foreign competitors. (Source.)

I would love to see a report on how much money the U.S. has spent on “technological innovation” over the past 20 years, and what has actually been the result.

I did some research and published an article on the history of U.S. spending for “AI” back in 2023, showing how much money was wasted on this technology for the past 75 years, and how many $billions were lost.

The 75-Year History of Failures with “Artificial Intelligence” and $BILLIONS Lost Investing in Science Fiction for the Real World

Apple Computers is a great example that developed “technological innovations” around that time with their iPhone, but chose to manufacture them in China, as it was much more cost effective. China did not force Apple to produce their iPhones there, it was 100% Apple’s choice, and for many years, they were the highest valued company on Wall Street because of it.

Wall Street investors, including Warren Buffet, made $billions from Apple for almost 20 years as a result of producing them in China.

If you look at the graph I posted above from USA Facts, you will see the 5 largest expenditures in the U.S. budget as of 2023. I looked this up because I was wondering how much of our budget was spent on the military fighting wars abroad.

I found out that spending on the military is now only the third largest recipient of U.S. Government spending, as Social Security and Medicare have now exceeded spending on the military, and as you can see as of 2023, spending on the interest of the National Debt has the highest vertical curve, and will easily outpace all other spending, if it hasn’t already.

And as I recently reported, U.S. spending from the U.S. Treasury has actually INCREASED so far under Trump, in spite of all the promises and talk from Elon Musk and his DOGE about how much they have “cut” from government spending. See:

Musk claims otherwise, but the Trump administration’s spending is on track to surpass Biden’s

It was recently announced, for example, that Kennedy’s HHS was eliminating 10,000 jobs, including jobs from the FDA and CDC.

One of the employees of the FDA, Dr. Peter Marks who has absolutely been the main person to approve deadly vaccines for the past several years, quit (or was fired by Kennedy, depending on which news source you read), and is reportedly among those 10,000.

Fine, I will shed no tears for him. But where do you think he will go?

He will undoubtedly follow his predecessors who worked at high level positions at the FDA, and go into the private sector and probably join one of the major pharmaceutical companies who will pay him probably at least quadruple what he was earning at the FDA, because he knows how the agency works, and how to get vaccines approved.

Scott Gottlieb did exactly that during Trump’s first term, where he initially served as the head of the FDA, and tried to outlaw Homeopathy remedies and other herbal supplements.

He “resigned” in 2019, before COVID started in 2020, and joined the Board of Directors at Pfizer, helping them to secure $1.95 BILLION from Trump to develop their COVID “vaccine,” which was ultimately approved as the first “vaccine” to get an emergency use authorization. See:

Former FDA Director Gottlieb Now Pfizer Board Member Secures $1.95 BILLION for COVID Vaccine

Thus, he caused more harm AFTER he left the FDA, than when he was running it.

I suspect the same thing is happening today, and that most of these government jobs that are allegedly being eliminated, are mostly just moving into the private sector, so they can influence public policy from there.

The other point no one among Trump’s supporters seem to want to talk about, is where is the U.S. going to find the labor to work in all of these new “manufacturing jobs” that Trump claims are coming to the U.S.?

There is already a labor shortage in the U.S. due to the huge amount of people who were killed or crippled by Trump’s COVID shots, which is a main reason why the Biden Administration allowed so many migrants to come across the border, and why most new jobs created during the Biden years were by migrants.

This was published on Market Watch today:

Why economists doubt Trump’s tariffs will spur a boom in manufacturing jobs

Excerpts:

Even if some companies moved factories back to the U.S. to avoid high tariffs, ‘jobs would probably not follow,’ trade expert says

Members of the United Auto Workers were among those looking on as President Donald Trump announced his new tariff plan at the White House on Wednesday.

While emotions over the loss of manufacturing jobs around the U.S. are still deeply felt, economists do not think the president’s tariff plan will result in the return of manufacturing jobs to hard-hit regions.

Economists don’t think the Trump administration can turn back the clock.

Even if some companies moved factories back to the U.S. to avoid high tariffs, “jobs would probably not follow,” Irwin said in a Bloomberg radio interview.

The tariffs make the argument for reshoring at least some manufacturing to the U.S. stronger, but major structural hurdles remain, said James Knightley, chief international economist at ING.

Manufacturing wages are very high in the U.S. relative to foreign countries. According to the National Association of Manufacturers, U.S. manufacturing workers earned an average of $102,629 in pay and benefits in 2023.

In China, workers make around 25% of that figure, and in South Korea, they make around 40% of it. Even in Germany, earnings amount to less than 75% of that figure, Knightley said.

“Given the costs of moving production to the U.S., many other manufacturers may decide that it is cheaper to keep production facilities where they are and just absorb the tariff with operating costs and perhaps hope that the Administration’s attitude softens,” Knightley added. (Source.)

Trump has a Track Record Now – But People Keep on Believing in Him

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I don’t believe for one minute that Trump’s policy on tariffs is going to solve any problems, or benefit the people of the United States. We already have 4 years of his previous presidency, and the first few months of this one, so we can examine his track record to see if he keeps his word.

In 2020 Trump locked down the entire country destroying many small businesses that he deemed “unessential”, while passing laws that gave $trillions to Big Pharma to develop new drugs and new vaccines that went into the market untested because he declared a national emergency.

He is doing similar things today by issuing executive orders and declaring many “national emergencies”.

Trump supporters give him a free pass, especially on the lockdowns in 2020, and his “vaccines”. They generally seem to claim that he was “too stupid” to know what he was doing in 2020, and was fooled by picking the wrong people to manage the COVID Scam.

So is he still “too stupid” today to know how much harm he caused to the economy in 2020, and how many people died or were crippled as a result of his shots that he forced the FDA to give emergency use approval to?

The Trump supporters still, to this day, continue to claim that Trump learned his lesson in 2020, and really means to help the American people this time around.

But he has NEVER apologized or admitted he did anything wrong in 2020, and in his first weeks on the job here in 2025, he is continuing to favor funding more vaccine initiatives, and is expanding the Zionist agenda he started during his first term, where he had the U.S. move their embassy to Jerusalem, the first country in the world to do so.

He is very rapidly expanding the use of cryptocurrencies, as his family becomes filthy rich in the process, and is in favor of developing his own financial network on cryptocurrencies to replace traditional banks. See:

Trump Takes on the Banking Industry by Developing his Own Cryptocurrency Financial Network

If he gets his way with a U.S. Sovereign Fund and/or a cryptocurrency Federal Reserve that can buy up U.S. Treasuries, then you can be almost sure that he will put much of that government spending in the graph above, particularly Social Security and Medicare, into those funds while he uses the U.S. Treasury to purchase REAL assets, such Greenland and maybe Canada as well.

And every economist in America, whether they lean to the Left or to the Right, agrees that these tariffs will most certainly weaken the U.S. dollar globally.

But the Technocrats seem to have convinced Trump that cryptocurrencies can replace the dollar and keep America’s edge globally, as long as they control all the major cryptocurrencies.

America is being sold to the Globalists, because everyone knows that the U.S. is a dying empire, except the Trump supporters who continue to blindly follow him by faith.

Trump may be correct in stating that the “patient survived,” but probably as a disabled patient for life, much like many of his COVID-19 vaccine injury survivors.

Then the disciples came to him and asked,

“Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this?”

He (Jesus) replied,

“Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by the roots. Leave them; they are blind guides. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.” (Matthew 15:12-14)

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