Trump’s Sham: Taking Credit for Tech Wins He Didn’t Earn While Tariffs Crush Main Street
Donald Trump’s at it again, strutting into the Oval Office on August 7, 2025, with Apple’s Tim Cook, crowing about a $600 billion new investment in the U.S. and also claiming credit for new U.S. investments by Nvidia, IBM, Corning, and Texas Instruments and others. He calls this his “economic miracle,” when in fact had nothing to do with it. He claims his tariffs—54% on Chinese goods, 100% on chips—made these tech giants invest in America. Total BS! These high-tech investments were always happening here, driven by America’s brainpower and infrastructure, not Trump’s policies. He’s grabbing credit for stuff he had zero to do with, while conveniently ignoring the economic chaos his tariffs are causing everywhere else.
Trump’s tariffs are crushing mainstream, small and mid-sized businesses. Small retailers and importers—like mom and pop shops selling imported clothes or electronics—are getting wiped out by sky-high prices, forced to close their doors. Small manufacturers are suffering too, stuck paying more for imported parts, which makes their products too pricey to export. The Bureau of Labor Statistics shows manufacturing jobs fell by 13,000 from January to July 2025, shredding Trump’s “jobs boom” myth. Notice he’s not claiming credit for these losses—because those are the real results of his economic meddling. Big Tech? They’d build here no matter who’s in office. Trump’s just hijacking their success to mask his failures.
This isn’t leadership—it’s a con. Trump’s tariffs inflate costs for everyone, making consumers and businesses pay more while killing small firms’ ability to import. His random, ever-changing tariff rates—picking winners and losers with no logic—wreck supply chains and choke the market. It’s government interference on overdrive, not a strategy. The fix? Scrap tariffs, cut regulations, and let markets work. Trump’s boasts about Big Tech are a desperate distraction from the truth: he’s claiming credit for wins he didn’t earn while his policies demolish Main Street. Economic freedom means letting businesses thrive, not letting Trump take a bow for other people’s work.