{"id":34533,"date":"2025-02-12T19:16:55","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T00:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/?p=34533"},"modified":"2025-02-12T19:25:26","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T00:25:26","slug":"trump-hits-humor-industry-with-tariffs-citing-insecurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2025\/02\/trump-hits-humor-industry-with-tariffs-citing-insecurity\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Hits Humor Industry with Tariffs, Citing Insecurity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a move certain to be challenged in a real court (unlike a Florida court or a tennis court), President\/Ex-President\/President-Redux Trump today announced sweeping tariffs on any humor that makes fun of him or those whom he claims to represent.<\/p>\n<p>So, with a heavy heart, I have made the decision to no longer say anything that is remotely sarcastic or satirical about the Trump administration, Elon Musk, the hair-and-makeup artists for Pam Bondi, Tulsi Gabbard and Kristi Noem, or Pete Hesgeth&#8217;s public-relations team, which must now out-number the remaining staff at USAID.\u00a0 The sad fact is, I can&#8217;t afford to pay tariffs on something that makes no money for me but only a laugh.<\/p>\n<p>President Trump, I bow to your superiority in navigating and exploiting American culture.\u00a0 You are not funny and I will not make fun of you or your cadre ever again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a move certain to be challenged in a real court (unlike a Florida court or a tennis court), President\/Ex-President\/President-Redux Trump today announced sweeping tariffs on any humor that makes fun of him or those whom he claims to represent. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2025\/02\/trump-hits-humor-industry-with-tariffs-citing-insecurity\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34533"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34541,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34533\/revisions\/34541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}