"I Am So Torn With What You Are Doing" — 11 Posts From MAGA Business Owners Who Are So Close To Getting It

The regular quality rhythm is truthful tumultuous that you whitethorn oregon whitethorn not person forgotten the US is inactive successful the mediate of President Donald Trump's global commercialized war.

The latest update: The US and China agreed to backmost down (slightly) for 90 days. This means the US's tariffs connected China fell from 145% to 30% and China's tariffs connected the US fell from 125% to 10%, Reuters reports. 

And it's not conscionable left-leaning tiny concern owners experiencing a tariff-sized strain successful their pockets. Conservatives are arsenic affected, and it's starring immoderate of them to state whether oregon not the tariffs — which Trump campaigned connected announcing — person made them regret their vote.

Here's what MAGA tiny concern owners are saying:

1. This covering marque laminitis said: "I voted for you successful 2016, 2020, and 2024 due to the fact that I judge successful your imaginativeness for the state — and inactive do. However, the caller tariff changes are happening excessively quickly... Increasing tariffs connected China from 25% to 145% volition beryllium the decease of thousands of eCommerce companies conscionable similar [mine]."

3. This Trump elector said, "Yet AGAIN, different lawsuit ( 3 contiguous ) has backed retired of moving with us, owed to the relentless chest-beating of our 'he's playing chess portion everyone other is playing checkers' President and his commercialized war. I'm honestly starting to consciousness similar I voted against my ain interests. I voted for Trump 3 times reasoning he'd beryllium bully for business, but it's opening to consciousness similar I voted for idiosyncratic who's moving our business, and thousands of others, consecutive into the ground."

4. This tiny concern proprietor said, "We tin not past the tariff"s.. I voted for Trump truthful don't travel connected present calling maine a liberal."

5. This existent property improvement steadfast proprietor titled their station "Conservative acrophobic astir tariffs," writing: "The deals we person successful spot volition acquisition terms increases that could bankrupt our business... Trump is basing the crushed for his tariffs connected commercialized shortage alone. Does anyone other disagree with this approach?"

6. This idiosyncratic said they were "pro tariffs," until "about 30 of our clients...cancelled searches implicit the past 3 weeks."

7. Previously a national justice blocked the Trump medication from freezing national assistance, which prompted this blimpish to say: "I'm torn connected this. My wife's concern is nonprofit and they enactment done Medicaid. Their business... won't past 90 days of national spending freeze... This has the imaginable to wounded a batch of radical who person thing to bash with the DEI agenda." (A commenter replied, "That's conscionable the escaped marketplace for ya," which the hubby did NOT appreciate.)

8. In November 2024, this brag praised the thought of Trump implementing tariffs. Then, successful March 2025, they said, "Still Team Trump. Also person urgent meetings time connected however to update our pricing strategy... We cannot sorb 10-25% tariffs, the margins are excessively thin. So conjecture what's going to happen??"

9. Responding to 1 of Trump's posts connected X, this protagonist wrote, "I emotion you Sir. But the Tariff connected Canada is going to enactment our household retired of business."

10. This idiosyncratic said they stopped talking to their Trump-voting household aft the election, but present 2 person vented to them. "One is simply a husbandman and volition not turn corps this year. He nary longer has entree to undocumented folks, consenting to enactment for 12 hours per day."

11. And finally, this Trump elector issued a supplication for different tiny concern owners portion saying each they tin bash present is "trust I americium making the close decisions."

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