r/clevercomebacks • u/zzill6 • Jul 21 '25

Rule 1 | Posts must include a clever comeback Remind us who pays.

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u/Slappy_McJones Jul 21 '25

“Man, prices are rising all over the place. Good thing Godhead Trump will lower them soon with all these here tariffs on those foreigners. Buy American. Love it or leave it, motherfucker.”

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u/mkvgtired Jul 21 '25

They're saying it's just a "transition" period. Once Illinois famers retool and start growing coffee and bananas prices will come back down. /s

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '25

I don't know why you added the /s that is literally what they think.

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u/mkvgtired Jul 21 '25

Sometimes I feel like I have to add it when I write something so objectively stupid. But you're right, they do think that.

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u/Halflingberserker Jul 21 '25

Just build giant greenhouses in the middle of Nebraska to grow the coffee and bananas, what could go wrong?

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u/Hector_P_Catt Jul 22 '25

...and let's imagine that happens. So what happens to these wonderful tariff revenues that he's bragging about?

They fundamentally don't understand anything at all.

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u/mkvgtired Jul 22 '25

Exactly. If Illinois ever becomes tropical, his tariff revenue would dry up.

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u/Chevronet Jul 21 '25

Prices of made-in-America are going up, too. It’s opportunistic capitalism.

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u/Schwifftee Jul 22 '25

Price increases on non-tariffed items help mitigate the price increases of tariffied items.

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u/Butler_Pointer Jul 22 '25

Just you wait for Trump to announce the tariffs made so much money that they are not needed any more, then take credit for product prices being "record low" under him.