Admin correction: This story has been edited to reflect the updated corrected text of the linked New York Post piece regarding Suzano.
Little noticed in Friday's news was a Trump post that called for Rupert Murdoch to replace the editor at the Wall Street Journal, who he sees as pro-China, with Keith Poole, the editor of The New York Post, also owned by Murdoch. Trump has been caught through the Beast's windows at times reading the physical copy of the Post.
The Truth Social post could have been inspired by an editorial board article, denouncing Trump's idea of drug price controls as "the worst idea since tariffs."
Last weekend on Air Force One, when confronted with a question he didn't like, he asked what news organization the reporter was with, and when the reporter said the WSJ, Trump ignored the question and moved onto another reporter.
"Boy, you people treat us so badly. Wall Street Journal has truly gone to hell... Rotten newspaper! You hear me, what I said?! It's a rotten newspaper!"
The WSJ editor-in-chief is Emma Tucker. She's been at the job since February, 2023.
The editorial run by the WSJ on Trump's first 100 days said his actions could "sink his presidency."
"Mr. Trump was elected to control inflation and raise real incomes, but tariffs do the opposite...It's a mistake to think the tariff damage is only domestic. The willy-nilly assault on friends and foes has shaken global confidence in U.S. reliability."
The New York Post also has been critical of the tariffs, as has every other news outlet. Fox News can't get their story right with criticism by some, and support of Trump by rationalizing, by others.
A mid-April editorial by the NY Post said, "Trump's China tarrifs are hurting small businesses... If the White House doesn't wake up fast to the growing angst, the fallout --- economic and political --- will be rapid, deep and lasting."
On Thursday, the WSJ had an editorial titled: "Trump Stages a Trade-War Defeat," about the deal with the U.K. Trump has touted it as a victory, when it is nothing of the sort. It's the start of a losing trade war where Trump's tariffs were going to make the country and the prople rich, and now the few tariffs collected will drop off to nothing with the lack of imports.
At the signing of four House Joint Resolutions, Trump said we had a great deal with China because we weren't doing any business with them. Somehow, we weren't losing money by cutting off what he called a trillion dollar trade deficit. No trade, we don't lose any money.
Just yesterday, the NY Post ran a business article that we could run out of toilet paper due to the tariffs. Suzano SA, the world’s largest exporter of pulp, said US levies are disrupting shipments of the key raw material used in making toilet paper and other hygiene products. Brazilian companies, which produce bleached hardwood pulp used by many American manufacturers, reported a 20% drop in US-bound exports in April compared to the same time last year. The Post asked for White House comments on the story, and didn't get any.
Almost inconceivablely, toilet paper could expose Trump's dementia about tariffs more than dolls or pencils. There was that period of time in the Covid pandemic when hoarders snapped up everything from the store shelves and you had to buy toilet paper off of Amazon.
Just one more failure by Trump's tariffs. He just won't give up his trade war no matter how many people, how many newspapers and how many news media outlets tell him the folly of his policies. He keeps saying things will work themselves out in the end, when the direction of everything is going south.
Trump may think that Keith Poole would help him replacing Emma Tucker at the Wall Street Journal, but the current stories on the New York Post say different.
Trump will soon find that nobody agrees with him, and it could be toilet paper that takes him down. Someone might put that clip of Trump going up the stairs to Air Force One with toilet paper stuck to his shoe in an endless loop. Somehow, that would be appropriate.
Legally made in Mexico because Trump hadn't trademarked his name there. The businessman made just one batch in response to Trump's attacks on Mexicans.
NBC 2017 story on the Trump toilet paper.
