Opinionated summary:
- Despite Republican assurances, Trump called the CHIPS Act “horrible” and pushed for its scrapping, creating chaos for an industry already struggling with uncertainty.
- The Trump administration has already sabotaged the program by laying off key staff and considering changes to the projects, showing its disdain for U.S. industrial growth.
- Industry leaders, who have already committed billions to U.S. chip production, are now left in limbo, thanks to Trump’s shortsighted, destructive rhetoric.
He hates it because Biden is supposed to be the worst president in the history of ever and Biden signed the CHIPS act so therefore it must be bad because Biden is bad. It’s not more complicated than that.
He hates it because Biden is supposed to be the worst president in the history of ever and Biden signed the CHIPS act so therefore it must be bad because Biden is bad. It’s not more complicated than that.
I’ll go a little bit further than that, because this mindset started long before Trump came to power.
Mitch McConnell has been championing this mindset for decades. Anything, anything that Democrats are in favor of, Republicans must be against at all costs. How many times have we seen McConnell lead a charge for Republicans to suddenly be about-face on one of their own policies because it started getting Democrat support? The man once filibustered his own bill because it got Democrat support.
Trump is just the manifestation of that mindset brought to its logical extremes. It was always going to end up here. At worst, Trump just sped the process up. But this is where we are now. Any Democrat initiatives are bad by default must be dismantled solely on the basis that a Democrat supported it in the first place.
You’re absolutely correct, and it’s important to point this out because people need to understand that Trump is not behaving in ways that are unusual for Republicans. He’s just an extreme manifestation of the mindset they all share.
You might be on to something there
We saw trump do the same thing to legislation signed into law by Obama. trump is just a petty man child.
He hates the Canadian milk tariffs but HE SIGNED THEM INTO EXISTENCE on his first term. (Also they’ve never been used)
I thought they wanted to on-shore industry to the US.
I’m starting to think Trump is being disloyal to Putin by moonlighting for Xi.
Has he ever given any indication that he knows what the CHIPS Act is? Because I’m 99% sure he’s confusing it with CHIP Children’s Health Insurance Program which iirc is part of social security and we know he’s aiming to get rid of that.
My guess is that he just hates Erik Estrada for some unknowable reason.
You know, I wouldn’t be surprised.
It’s just another article where I’m not sure if Trump is too stupid to know what he’s doing or if he’s manipulating the market so his rich buddies can cash in on something

He’s just upset because he never got to guest star on CHIPS.
Ha, the leopards are eating the biggest faces of them all. The tech industry that played no small part in getting him elected LMAO
Get ready for the CHIPS II Act which is just CHIPS but signed by El Narcississto, instead of Joe Biden. The world will weep and cry in thanks for the new signature.
Yet subsidies for oil and gas will never be touched.
Isn’t this kinda a war declaration on his own country? I mean the production and access to chips today and future to uni- and multipolar power is like nuclear technology and bomb of the 20th century…
It’s like THE race for power / safety in modern standards xD this would mean trump could be convicted in the casuality chain that he really is a foreign agent in front of the justice system(s)
What a massive fucking idiot this man and the Republicans are.
All the talk about America first manufacturing in the US and he pulls this bullshit because his fragile fee fees are hurt because Biden, Democrats, and progressives did that.
More than that, it was bipartisan with Republican contribution
Yup. Just goes to show partisan, Snowflakey, and stupid they are.
Yeah the orange bozo is going to fuck up so many companies already struggling just to stay in business. Puff all of them will go in just a few months and then what? Oops sorry?
Fuck that! I want to see this bozo in jail for the rest of his fucking miserable life. He’s already caused many of my fellow co workers to be laid off and I’m not in gob work. This is science and engineering work. This is stuff that generates work packages for machine shops, welders, inspectors, painters, skilled assembly men and women. I can’t believe that such technology generation is just going puff because of a late night show joke’s pun. I can imagine that if I’m ticked off there must be thousands of peoples who are way much more than ticked off here in the US. I can only guess at the level of love for this man in 90% of the planet. Imagine not being able to fly anywhere because you’re simply an asshole. Forever stuck between airport and hotel room afraid to venture out anywhere else.
Looooooooooool.
I’m just… I can’t even. They got their boy. This what he do.
