The Daily Show has taken a swipe and Donald Trump’s tariff war against toy manufacturer Mattel, creating a spoof ad for a doll named “Tariff Tilly”.
President Donald Trump criticised Mattel and their choice not to manufacture in the US and raise prices according to tariffs.
The President said, “That’s OK, let him go, and we’ll put a 100 per cent tariff on his toys, and he won’t sell one toy in the United States, and that’s their biggest market.”
Confronted with warnings of a shortage of toys, Trump told reporters that children should be happy with “two dolls instead of 30 dolls”, and they might “cost a couple bucks more” than usual.
The Daily Show made fun of Trump’s previous statement claiming that young girls didn’t need 37 dolls.
It came as Donald Trump accidentally called toy firm Mattel a country while threatening further tariffs.
The US president misspoke when saying tariffs are “misunderstood” in business. He cited Mattel, which is famous for making Barbie dolls, as an example of a country thinking about counter-tariffs.
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The news comes as China and the US have agreed a 90-day pause to the deepening trade war that has threatened to upend the global economy, with reciprocal tariffs to be lowered by 115 percentage points.
A joint statement published by the US and China on Monday said both sides would “continue to advance related work in a spirit of mutual openness, continuous communication, cooperation and mutual respect”.
In other words, the president has caved.
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