Trump’s tariffs are about to take effect and experts are predicting historic economic pain:

* The Tax Foundation warns inflation could surge back to 9.3% by 2028.
* The Peterson Institute says these tariffs will cost families an extra $2,600 per year.
* The stock market plunged today as investors braced for the fallout.

All of this was very, very predictable. So how did this happen? How did American voters pick a President with economic policies that would worsen the very issue that they said was the most important in the election?

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Trump and right-wing media spent the election selling a lie. They blamed Biden and Harris for inflation while ignoring economic recovery. They hyped Trump’s tough-guy talk on tariffs and immigration as the fix while ignoring every economist warning his policies would make things worse.

And corporate media let it happen with weak “both sides” coverage that focused on polls and photo ops like Trump’s McDonald’s stunt:

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Now, Trump’s tariffs are here—and they’re already backfiring.

The stock market tanked as expected, and predictably, Trump delayed tariffs on Mexico for a month.

But just like they did during the election, right-wing media is scrambling to spin Trump’s latest move as a stroke of genius.

* Fox & Friends’ Brian Kilmeade justified Trump’s tariffs, claiming he’s “rebalancing trade to get the deficit down and get our economy rolling.”
* Former Trump adviser Steve Moore appeared on Fox News Live, defending the tariffs as necessary “even as a free trade guy.”
* Trump surrogates on Meet the Press dismissed concerns, doubling down on Trump’s bogus claim that the tariffs were necessary to stop fentanyl and migrant crime.

With Mexico sending 10,000 troops to the border, right-wing media will inevitably spin this as a win for Trump.

But that’s all smoke and mirrors too, John.

Trump claimed Mexico wasn’t doing enough to stop fentanyl, but the data shows otherwise—Canada plays no real role in fentanyl smuggling, Mexico had already increased enforcement, and overdose deaths were already dropping nationwide.

The same media that failed to call out Trump’s lies before the election now has a choice: Will they finally hold him accountable, or will they let him get away with it again?

COURIER isn’t waiting to find out. We expose right-wing spin, corporate media failures, and the economic reality Trump wants to hide. And we do it in the online spaces where disinformation thrives.

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