Donald Trump on Tuesday told CNBC that he will gratefully “remember” U.S. companies that do not seek refunds for the tariffs he unilaterally imposed, which the Supreme Court later ruled were illegal.
Trump’s comment on “Squawk Box” came a day after U.S. Customs and Border Protection opened a portal for importers to seek more than $160 billion in potential refunds for the so-called IEEPA tariffs.
He was asked about a number of large companies, among them Apple and Amazon, that have not filed requests for refunds for the tariffs they paid, potentially because they are worried about “offending” Trump.
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santa@sh.itjust.works · 188 pts · 116d
According to his tests, he can only remember four words.
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml · 64 pts · 116d
But on the cognitive test he took he THOUGHT it was an IQ test.
He failed BOTH tests at the same time.
santa@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 116d
That’s hilarious
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 116d
I'll be here all week. Try the buffet.
Embargo@lemmy.zip · 23 pts · 116d
That's unfair... he clearly remembered person, woman, man, camera and tv that one time.
homes@piefed.world · 18 pts · 116d
Or was he just naming the things that happened to to be in front of him?
kingofras@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 116d
Must rape kids is only 4 though
homes@piefed.world · 3 pts · 116d
“Kids” is plural
__Goblin@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 116d
BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 116d
True that, get your money and then just tell him you didn't.
Play those odds, he's old anyways.
Put it on the prediction market and see if he bets on it.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com · 173 pts · 116d
The tariffs WE PAID. Those fucking companies jacked up prices to cover them. Now our tax money is going to pay them again.
4am@lemmy.zip · 75 pts · 116d
And then, they’re keeping those prices high.
Janx@piefed.social · 18 pts · 116d
Yeah, there's no chance they now lower prices and collect less profit. That's what we should remember...
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 116d
Taxes this year were brutal. Fucking. Goddamn. Brutal.
Trump is suing our own government to steal these. He's doing it right now. He's a fucking traitor.
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 116d
I think I'm with the companies here, which feels weird to say. The Trump admin imposed these ridiculous tariffs, which the companies had to pay. Makes no sense for them to lose money on the products they sell, so of course they raised prices, which we all said they would have to when the tariffs were imposed. Meanwhile, the administration pocketed the money. Then the tariffs were ruled to have been illegal.
So yes, I want the companies to go after the money that the administration illegally bilked them (and, indirectly, us) out of. I hope they figure out ways to pass the recovered money back to customers; Costco has said it will use the money to lower prices. But it's actually more important to me that the administration not get away with the illegal tariffs.
3abas@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 116d
Product sells for $10. After tariffs of $2 it sells for $14.
You pay $2 tariff and $2 convenient price hike. Company makes $2 for hiking price more than value of tariff.
Company requests refund for $2, company made $4 total.
You paid $4 extra total, which the company made. It's a completely standard transaction, money from your packet to company's. And more tax money will be wasted for the costs of processing the refunds.
Company brings price down to $12, you're still overpaying, and are you necessarily buying that product again?
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 116d
I'm sure some companies did that, but do you have data suggesting that was a widespread practice? Because what I read was that lots and lots of companies tried to stock up on materials before the tariffs went into effect, so they wouldn't have to raise prices, and then many just ate the extra cost for a while - hoping the tariffs would be short lived - because they knew they would lose customers, before ultimately raising prices to cover. Many companies did lose money on the deal, according to what was reported.
But I'll read whatever you have from a reputable source.
3abas@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 115d
Back in 2018, there was already evidence companies were using tariffs as cover to jack prices up beyond the tariff itself. An AEA study found washing machine prices went up almost 12%, and dryers went up about the same amount even though dryers were not tariffed. Once you include dryers and domestic brands too, prices rose by more than the tariff alone would explain.
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257%2Faer.20190611
And this is not just old news. In a 2025 New York Fed survey, about three quarters of firms said they passed tariff costs on to customers, and some said they also raised prices on goods that were not even tariffed. The Fed’s Beige Book flat out said some of the price hikes were not just from tariffs or higher costs, but from “opportunism.”
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/ny-fed-survey-last-month-most-firms-passed-some-tariff-surge-2025-06-04/
By 2026, the Fed was saying pass-through was basically complete. One Federal Reserve note found the tariffs put in place through November 2025 had raised core goods prices by 3.1% by February 2026. Another found both imported goods and domestic goods got more expensive after the 2025 tariff announcements.
https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/the-slow-climb-how-tariffs-gradually-raised-retail-prices-in-2025-20260305.html
https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/detecting-tariff-effects-on-consumer-prices-in-real-time-part-II-20260408.html
And of course, once prices go up, companies are not eager to bring them back down. Reuters reported in February 2026 that businesses were unlikely to lower prices even after tariff relief, and were more likely to use that relief to offset other costs and chase refunds instead.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/dont-bet-on-lower-prices-businesses-say-even-after-emergency-trump-tariffs-were-2026-02-24/
I know of some companies that didn't raise prices or only raised them a small amount, but all the ones I heard of were mostly small companies making specialized products and depended on the loyalty of their customers.
CascadianGiraffe@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 116d
No. They stocked up on the product BEFORE the tariff and then raised the prices to match the upcoming costs. Ask anyone in actual retail management (not middle managers but those that buy the products and set the prices).
Any company that sold their current stock at the old price was making a rookie mistake. That's like resale 101. You can't possibly sell products for less than what it costs to replace them. If they were doing that they don't deserve to get any money back because they don't understand how to use it.
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 116d
If they're able to have a lower price than their competitors, they can take so of the sales, unless they're illegally price fixing, which some likely did.
You're still saying a lot of things as absolute fact without any citation. Do you have a source for any of this?
CascadianGiraffe@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 116d
Decades of sales experience. Retail management during COVID price hikes.
I saw this first hand. I don't need to read reports because I lived it.
But sure. Show me all the great companies that tried to keep prices low, to what, be nice to the consumer?
That ain't how things work.
grue@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 116d
I mean, sort of, but not really. The money went into the Federal budget, and even if some of it did get embezzled by Trump cronies, the money that comes back isn't going to come back out of their pockets.
If the embezzlement happened, that's a separate, additional crime on top of issuing the illegal tariffs themselves.
Then the only correct solution is prison (or worse) for the officials involved. Making the Federal government (i.e., we, the people) pay back the illegal tariffs does fuck-all to punish the corrupt officials responsible.
I'm not saying the illegal tariffs shouldn't be refunded, I'm just saying it isn't the punishment you're looking for.
(Oh, by the way: the next step in your recap of the situation is going to be "the Federal government raises taxes to cover the 'shortfall' caused by refunding the illegal tariffs." I haven't heard anything about it yet, but you'll see. We, the people will be left holding the bag again.)
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 116d
I'm with you on prison.
I understand that our taxes will go up. This administration is screwing the vast majority of the American people. Only the wealthy are benefiting.
sturmblast@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 116d
Stop buying shit from these companies
lightnsfw@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 116d
The problem is it's virtually all of them. I already avoid spending money wherever I can but I have to buy shit sometimes.
sturmblast@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 116d
Its not easy, but something is better than nothing
notwhoyouthink@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 116d
Corporate bailouts to the rescue…again.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 116d
WELFARE! SOCIALISM!
ToiletFlushShowerScream@piefed.world · 91 pts · 116d
Isn't that a threat a mob boss in the movies would say?
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world · 52 pts · 116d
He has 4 modes: mob boss cliche, bigotted old asshole, self aggrandizing liar, and demented confused fool. They are not all distinct and he does like to mix and match. But they are all equally pathetic.
4am@lemmy.zip · 15 pts · 116d
There is a fifth mode: smitten with someone who put him in his place. Xi, Putin, hell even Mamdani
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 116d
That's just the cross between the self aggrandizing liar and the demented confused fool. Tell him he's great and he'll do whatever you want because he's a narcissist and an idiot, so he completely believes them
k0e3@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 116d
Can't wait until he's in his OFF mode.
switcheroo@lemmy.world · 55 pts · 116d
I wake up every day hoping for good news... You know the news I mean... Every fucking day.
areakode@riskeratspizza.com · 47 pts · 116d
orbitz@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 116d
Too bad he didn't have a stroke while the neighborhood was blocked with cars due to filming.
Mean I hate wishing ill will on anyone but there's a few exceptions that I think is morally fine as long as I don't take any action and just wish really hard. Like many people that pray.
Few people have erroded our social norms like that douche. While I thought they were stuffy before it's like he dropped his pants and took a shit at the table before his first bite then calls you crazy for being offended.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 116d
Want good news?
Every single day we get a day closer to when Trump dies
DisgruntledGorillaGang@reddthat.com · 43 pts · 116d
No he won't, he can't even remember what he had for breakfast this morning.
D_C@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 116d
That'd be easy to remember, it was a big Mac. Same as last night's supper, second breakfast, dinner, the afternoon treat etc etc etc
village604@adultswim.fan · 4 pts · 116d
That's the point. His brain is so damaged that he can't remember stuff he does every day.
DisgruntledGorillaGang@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 116d
Yet Sleepy Don still can't remember.
osanna@lemmy.vg · 2 pts · 115d
big macs: boil 'em, mash 'em, put 'em in a big mac meal
D_C@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 115d
What's big Mac, precious? What's big Mac?
MehBlah@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 115d
Narcs are often compared to gollum.
sns@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 38 pts · 116d
He can't even remember all the children he raped.
Klear@quokk.au · 9 pts · 116d
To be fair that's a lot to remember.
Butterphinger@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 116d
Neither can his would-be prosecutors.
green_red_black@slrpnk.net · 34 pts · 116d
Rolder@reddthat.com · 12 pts · 116d
But it’s free money and companies love them some free money
green_red_black@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 116d
Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 116d
Big company guy here. I have no involvement in tariffs, but I suspect:
Big company = big bureaucracy. Theres probably an intern somewhere combing through hundreds of thousands of documents labeled "tax" and trying to guess what is a border tariff, while their leader feeds the same document into ChatGPT and says "ChatGPT says we're owed 5 quintillion dollars, can you validate that?"
green_red_black@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 116d
Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip · 1 pts · 115d
Only when big company is the importer of record.
There are probably many tariffs paid to 3rd parties just like me paying UPS for a package shipped overseas, which just like me, big company can't claim. Unlike me, however, big company is probably gearing up to send the lawyers to UPS/FedEx instead of Washington, because that's who is getting some of their tariff dollars.
You'd be amazed how hard it is to figure something like that out. Hundreds or even thousands of people inputting data means nothing is filed correctly. The total costs are tracked closely because banks, but the below the line tariff amount could be buried in a phone camera photo of a receipt on someone's computer screen.
Best case scenario you can filter directly for payments made to the government, but even that is prone to failure if they use a separate payment processor (e.g., for things paid via credit card).
green_red_black@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 115d
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 115d
He? Remember? He probably has forgotten what he had for breakfast when he left the room.
BigBrainBrett2517@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 115d
Came here to say this. But then realised it wouldn't matter because he would just lie about it if asked anyway 😂 "I had breakfast, it was the best breakfast. It broke records for how fast and everyone complimented me about it."
nonentity@sh.itjust.works · 29 pts · 116d
He can’t remember the start of the sentence he’s actively speaking, his memory will play no structural role in any of his future retaliations.
CanIFishHere@lemmy.ca · 28 pts · 116d
American Presidency being run like the mafia.
NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social · 20 pts · 116d
He doesn't even remember how to control any of his sphincters
ReallyAngryNerd@europe.pub · 1 pts · 116d
He has the best sphincters, they are so good he replaced his mouth with one.
Bieren@lemmy.today · 20 pts · 116d
This motherfucker can only remember what someone told him 3 seconds ago.
Rusticus@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 115d
With any luck American voters will also remember, since they are the ones who paid for the fucking things.
Jerb322@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 116d
He can't remember the names of people he just talked to.
Gork@sopuli.xyz · 10 pts · 116d
He knows of Tim Apple.
magnue@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 116d
Just like he remembers the Afghans that helped fight with US soldiers now at risk of being deported to the Congo?
Lucius_Sweet@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 115d
Or like how he forgot the name of the woman who gave him her Nobel peace prize the very next day.
Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 16 pts · 116d
As will the stock holders of company whose executives do not perform their basic fiduciary responsibilities.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 116d
More implicit mob boss threats from orange cosplay.
grue@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 116d
The opposite of a threat in this case, but yes, still corruption.
drascus@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 116d
No he won't. Statements like this have all been bullshit and everyone in the business world knows it.
Lehmuusa@nord.pub · 15 pts · 116d
Oh I do actually believe he really will remember them. For several seconds, possibly even over 15 seconds!
Gerudo@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 116d
Corporations who aren't going to want to get their free money back? Trump really is a fucking idiot.
Bonesince1997@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 116d
As if they don't already know that he's mainly known for screwing other people over. And he's trying to do it again.
thoughtfuldragon@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 13 pts · 116d
remember them as chumps
hamFoilHat@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 116d
The companies in question: Person llc, Woman Inc, Man Co, and Camera and TV inc.
the_armchair_potato@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 116d
Fuck that! We remember what you said and continue to say about Canada ,you entitled, dirtbag shit stain. The level of arrogance makes me want to puke. Pay it all back you cunt!!!
Typhoon@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 116d
This isn't a threat. I'm surprised Trump can remember to smear his tangerine paste on every morning.
CascadianGiraffe@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 116d
It's auto applied when they inflated him in the morning.
Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org · 9 pts · 116d
Do companies really want to be remembered by this man? Or does anybody want to be remembered by him?
frongt@lemmy.zip · -1 pts · 116d
I'd prefer his own damnatio memoriae, but I understand the importance of history.
ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 116d
He's lucky if he remembers what he had for breakfast at this point.
frongt@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 116d
Is it not McDonald's for breakfast, lunch, and dinner?
ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 116d
Probably. But he couldn't tell you.
lemmyng@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 116d
"You can't even remember breakfast, you old coot!"
icerunner_origin@startrek.website · 2 pts · 116d
Hamberder. It's always hamberder.
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe · 9 pts · 116d
Will he though.
pfunk1978@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 115d
Bet, somehow, doesn't remember shit
Professorozone@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 115d
Well there's a hollow threat.
Witchfire@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 116d
He can't even remember to empty his diapie
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 116d
Why would he empty his own diaper?
Witchfire@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 116d
True his sycophants wouldn't let some fudge go to waste
blattrules@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 116d
The same guy who can’t remember he was president a year ago is going to remember all the companies that don’t seek a refund? That’s hilarious.
U7826391786239@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 116d
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 116d
He won't remember anything, he's too fucking stupid.
WE, however, are going to remember EVERYTHING, and he is going to pay for every crime he has committed. Either he will, or those elected leaders who won't punish him will pay, and THEN Trump will pay.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 116d
LOL. Hilarious. Like he paid for the 34 felony convictions?
When exactly is the last time a US President paid for any crime they committed? Ever?
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 115d
That was then, this is now. He better go to prison, for his own good, or his life will be very short. And any politician who does not enthusiastically pursue justice for Trump will have their careers cut short.
Trump will go to prison. This is non-negotiable.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 116d
Trump is not getting what he deserves. He's old and feeble. He got away with it.
But his cronies should be made to pay.
Most-importantly, any military officers who followed illegal orders should be court-martialed and jailed to neuter future despots by removing future military backing.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 115d
No, he's not getting away with it. Tyrants are going to prison across the world these days, and the entire planet knows that nobody deserves it more than Trump.
I don't care how old, feeble, and demented he is, he is going to prison, and most, of not all, of his fortune will be confiscated. I will dedicate the rest of my life to seeing that this happens, and I KNOW that I will not be alone.
Trump will go to jail, or politicians will lose their careers, and possibly their freedom for theiralfeadance.
This is non-negotiable.
itisileclerk@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 116d
Trump can't remember what he had for dinner. Eldery with dementia can't remember new shit.
Jaysyn@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 116d
Demented pedo Trump can't remember shit.
JTskulk@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 116d
I would immediately ask him what he had for breakfast yesterday if he said that to me.
Don_alForno@feddit.org · 5 pts · 115d
Easy. Hamberders.
JTskulk@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 115d
lol wp
binarytobis@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 116d
My company made me separately log every tariff charge on my credit card recently, and I wasn’t sure why until I saw this post.
Widdershins@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 115d
he could refresh his memory of if he ate corn last week by checking his pants
Sabata11792@ani.social · 4 pts · 115d
When did McDonald's start serving corn?
Widdershins@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 115d
It is the second ingredient in most of their drinks
Prior_Industry@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 115d
Nice
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 116d
It's not as much "remember" as if a company wants a favor from him, they can point out they didn't seek tariff refunds and he MIGHT do it.
saltesc@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 116d
lol. As a business that still hasn't filed a request yet, would you:
a) Like to be remembered by Trump?
b) Get back your slice of the $160B pie?
Naich@piefed.world · 6 pts · 116d
Why are the companies getting the refunds when they passed the cost of the tariffs on to their customers?
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 116d
Trickle-down
Archangel1313@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 116d
Is that a threat?
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 116d
Lutniks sons planned this and are likely getting hundreds of millions in refunds.
sturmblast@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 116d
Corrrrrrrrrupppppt
johncandy1812@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 116d
Every time I hear Trump speak these days I whistle a bit of this song
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 116d
As soon as I read whistle, my brain just went to this song.
Totally unrelated. But now I've got this image of Donald Trump running down a hallway and getting ambushed by Protoman.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 116d
I wanna know why no one is blasting Woody Guthrie's Old Man Trump song at him.....
johncandy1812@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 116d
Another solid choice. If I'm not mistaken it's one of his poems but was never recorded as a song, at least not by Guthrie, maybe that's why it's not sung as much.
Anything to counter that man's negative energy is fine
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 116d
https://old.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/1euxnp6/woody_guthrie_i_aint_got_no_homeold_man_trump/
johncandy1812@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 116d
That's a cover of a different song with lyrics from his poem
From the notes:
"Woody Guthrie wrote these lyrics in 1951, and 65 years later, the Missin' Cousins, a County-Western music group from Oakland California, present a recording of these new lyrics to I Ain't Got No Home in this World Anymore. "
It's good though!
someguy3@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 116d
Both sides same!
aesthelete@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 115d
🎶 I will remember you. Will you remember me? 🎶
fox2263@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 116d
So after forcing these companies to pay the tariffs, then after being forced to refund the companies because his tariffs were deemed illegal, he will now be annoyed by companies that don’t choose to be refunded for the tariffs they paid.
tomi000@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 116d
I think he means remembering them in a positive way, as in theyre on his good side now. Which is bs of course.
betanumerus@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 116d
kreskin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 114d
Trump can remember my balls.
danc4498@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 116d
Cause there will be so few.
frightful5680@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 116d
We have a regular Rotting Rocket Man here in the US, thanks to MAGA :)