Summary
Home Depot co-founder and GOP megadonor Ken Langone blasted Trump’s sweeping tariffs as “bulls–t,” calling the 10% across-the-board rate and country-specific hikes—like 34% on China and 46% on Vietnam—“too aggressive” and poorly calculated.
Langone criticized the administration’s formula, based on trade deficits, as nonsensical.
Other prominent figures, including economists and billionaires like Stanley Druckenmiller, Bill Ackman, and Elon Musk, have also spoken out.
Critics warn the tariffs hinder negotiation and lack sound economic grounding. Langone said Trump is being “poorly advised” on trade policy.
So he got conned by a con man. You know what you called people who got conned? Suckers and losers.
Leopards or something, I think.
I’ve never tried billionaire face, but if it’s good enough for the leopards…
Sit back, and watch your shit get wrecked by the man you thought you’d purchased.
That’s the power of the Home Depot.
“These tariffs are affecting me, there for they are bad and wrong! He should have calculated them in such a way that didnt affect me, personally!”
You (Ken Langone) made a bad investment -> Take the L
Exactly
But they never do, nor will they ever have to. They can just sue the company for poor stock performance and then claim the unrealized losses as a tax write-off this year. It’s infuriating. If aliens are real, I hope they can summon the billionaires money in physical form and then drop it on them.
You funded him, get over it
Yeah, founder of home Depot can go fuck himself.
Also don’t shop at home Depot, he might be gone but the company still donated heavily Republican compared to most other hardware stores outside of Menards.
I hate that I can’t avoid them entirely in my area except for nuts-and-bolts type things, which I go to my local hardware store for. Home Depot and Lowe’s have a monopoly in my area when it comes to most goods, but I had to give up on Lowe’s entirely due to the truly terrible customer experience.
(Home Depot has a bad customer experience too, but my local Lowe’s is on a different level.)
Yeah, I simply choose bad customer service over more money donated to Republicans.
Thankfully around me there’s an Ace hardware that is locally owned by people who aren’t publicly political so that’s my go to.
It’s great that you have that option. Really makes it easy for you
Uh, don’t make me tap the sign…
Unlike HitlerPig, this Sociopathic Oligarch is a smart businessman, and he knows that much of his inventory’s cost is about to double.
Now he has a Sophie’s Choice - double his retail prices and watch his sales crater, or reduce his profits, OR, the more likely choice, try to walk a tightrope between them, raising costs as much as he can without losing too much business, and absorbing the rest by a reduction in profits.
Any of those choices are going to have a negative impact on the stock price, and he will be deemed responsible, even though none of it is his fault, and all of it is directly attributable to HitlerPig’s virtuosic dumbassery.
It’s definitely partially his fault. He just thought he wouldn’t be the one getting hurt.
Trump is the result of what the capitalists have done to the population since Reagan.
If you’re a billionaire who profited off gutting taxes, the commons, schools, etc while propping up for profit media pushing pro business lies like climate change is a hoax to line your own pockets, this is your fault.
As much bloody murder as Kenny here is crying, he isn’t suffering a tiny fraction enough. He should be in a secured mental health facility to treat his antisocial hoarding disorder for both his and our safety.
I often talk about these Sociopathic Oligarchs as mentally ill hoarders. If anybody collected cats like these guys collect money, they’d lock them up, but somehow these deranged people get worshipped for hoarding money they will never, ever need, even at the expense if destroying the entire country.
if he was smart, he shouldnt have donated to a known con-man.
You got what you voted for dipshit. Zero sympathy.
Sorry no take backsies. You bought an idiot, deal with it like the rest of us you schmuck.
Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Fascists happily use corporate influence to gain power. But once they’ve achieved power, the corporations end up completely subjugated to the state just like everyone else. In Hitler’s Germany, if you ran any kind of major company, the state told you what you were going to produce, when you were going to produce it, and how much you would be paid for it. Any executive who objected found themselves joining the other undesirables.
That’s what you get when you let the rich interfere in politics.
Isn’t this the same guy that wants to charge for parking in Home Depot if you don’t buy something in their store?
This is standard practice in most supermarkets and even shopping centres that are located in higher density city centers in Europe, because otherwise nobody would be able to find a spot to park…
“Why the fuck are you stupid leopards eating my face?!I bribed good money to have them eat the poories while I laughed!”
