When JD Vance Trump's tariff plan called 'yesterday's war': 'Jobs are already gone' | Today news
About eight years ago, US Vice President JD Vance was a vocal critic of the then presidential candidate Donald Trump’s “protectionist” trade policies, especially his advocacy for rates, claiming that only automation and technological changes reformed the economy. JD Vance also publicly called the Republican businessman an ‘idiot’ and said that he was ‘reprehensible’. Private he even compared himself to Adolf Hitler. “I’m going to think back and forth between thinking that Trump is a cynical a ***** e like Nixon who would not be as bad or that he is America’s Hitler,” he wrote privately on Facebook in 2016, Reuters reported. He also pointed directly to Donald Trump’s trade policy and said: “If you are concerned about the economic importance of America, you should focus more on automation/education than trade protectionism.” In 2017, Vance said the fighting on rates was “yesterday’s war”. “Maybe you can [turn the clock] A little bit of trade if we were in the 1980s, but we have already lost that battle in some ways, “Vance told CNN, adding,” The work is already gone. ” In 2024, since entering the Senate, JD Vance has changed his position towards Trump policy and eventually became a strong supporter of rates – a shift inspired by the success of Trump’s policy, as he says. Workers and families of the middle class since he launched his US Senate Race, and that’s a big part of the reason he was elected public office in the first place, ”Taylor of the Vice President Kirk said he said by CNN, while Trump tariffs could strive for the worldwide markets. In the markets, because it is a great transition. The Vice President added: “We’re going to have a long -time stock market for a long time because we reinvest in the United States,” Vvce said. (With agency input)