For years, Mackeys Ferry Sawmill in North Carolina depended on overseas buyers in China and Vietnam after domestic demand for premium hardwood declined. But when President Donald Trump launched his escalating trade war, the mill’s owners say the damage was immediate and ultimately irreversible. By July—just months after Trump declared his “Liberation Day” tariffs—they made the decision to shut the operation down entirely.
In a recent episode of the Big Take podcast, Bloomberg economics correspondent Shawn Donnan traveled to the “Old North State” to trace how one of America’s oldest trades was shaken by Trump’s tariff battles, and to hear how the mill’s owners now feel about the president they once supported at the ballot box.
About parts? What? About getting tariffs, the one favourite gun that he had used to shoot randomly during his first term? But not about the racism part, or taking away rights from women, people of color, or people not being straight and cis?
No, which is why it’s posted in here, wants to hurt others he dispaproves of but the hurtful net is broad and he’s been caught up it as well
“I voted for all those people I don’t like to be hurt or killed, not for peaceful God fearing folks like myself to lose money!!”
“I voted for Mr. Hitler because he’d be good for the economy. I didn’t go in for all that Jew-killing stuff. You can’t blame that on me.” – German Citizen, 1946
I don’t approve of his Bart killing policy, but I do approve of his Selma killing policy.