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Billionaire GOP donor Ken Langone rips ‘&^&&^&*^’ Trump tariffs: ‘I don’t understand the &*& formula’
NY Post ^ | 04/08/2025 | Emily Crane

Posted on 04/08/2025 6:39:34 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Billionaire Republican megadonor and Home Depot founder Ken Langone has ripped the Trump administration’s sweeping tariffs as “bulls–t” — claiming the president has been ill-advised amid the raging trade war.

“I don’t understand the Goddamn formula,” Langone, a veteran GOP campaign donor, told the Financial Times on Monday.

“I believe he’s been poorly advised by his advisers about this trade situation — and the formula they’re applying.”

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Everybody is turning on Trump
1 posted on 04/08/2025 6:39:34 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What is his problem?


2 posted on 04/08/2025 6:41:34 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Exactly!


3 posted on 04/08/2025 6:42:18 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

his financial ox is getting gored


4 posted on 04/08/2025 6:42:32 AM PDT by joshua c
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Langone needs to know what he’s talking about before he opens his mouth.

Those who are too stupid to understand how tariffs work and too lazy to go to the effort of finding out, need to keep their mouths shut.


5 posted on 04/08/2025 6:42:39 AM PDT by AFB-XYZ (( We have two options: 1. Stand up, or 2. Bend over))
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To: ChicagoConservative27

His problem is his operation is tied into China.


6 posted on 04/08/2025 6:43:01 AM PDT by Jolla
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He admits he doesn’t understand it but says Trump is getting bad advice. Yes. He should take advice from the guy who doesn’t understand why he can’t keep selling poor quality, cheap Chinese crap in his stores at the expense of the American taxpayer.


7 posted on 04/08/2025 6:43:04 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Long live The Great MAGA Kangz!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It’s a gamble ok? Still something’s got to be done. Trump supporters are betting on him.


8 posted on 04/08/2025 6:43:07 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He chooses Wall Street over Main Street.

Money over America.


9 posted on 04/08/2025 6:43:41 AM PDT by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Here is the formula, doofus.

You make chairs in your garage. So does your neighbor.

When you and your neighbor take your chairs at the local flee market, you are told at the door that all your prices are doubled and half of your proceeds go to the house. Your neighbor is not told that.

WHo do you think sells his chairs?


10 posted on 04/08/2025 6:43:43 AM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

His problem is most of his inventory comes from China


11 posted on 04/08/2025 6:44:43 AM PDT by iamgalt
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Maybe botched.

Or maybe Trump told his team to come up with a formula that would give him high numbers so he could cut them in half to look gentle, but then still be high enough for negotiation.


12 posted on 04/08/2025 6:45:10 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: HYPOCRACY

We don’t go to HD at ALL.

We went shopping for appliances and was told it would be several days to get anything delivered as it would have to be shipped from a warehouse while Lowe’s had everything in stock for immediate delivery.

Different business models but Lowe’s worked better for us.


13 posted on 04/08/2025 6:45:41 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: 9YearLurker

Uh, bingo


14 posted on 04/08/2025 6:46:29 AM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

No, only those who put wall street over main street and those who prefer cheap slave labor goods over American made.


15 posted on 04/08/2025 6:49:26 AM PDT by Skwor
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Another Wall Street pion, beholden to the international banking cartel, who prefers the status quo where America is enslaved to the globalist wealth transfer machine. “Free Traitor” A-holes, like this Schiff-4-brains butt wipe, don’t really give a crap about America’s future. He and his his Chi-com tool buddies would willingly watch the country burn to the ground, as long as they got to stand atop the pile of ashes.


16 posted on 04/08/2025 6:49:59 AM PDT by JME_FAN ("It's just the normal noises in here.")
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To: ChicagoConservative27

big money was made in the old system. The new system threatens that wealth.


17 posted on 04/08/2025 6:51:12 AM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (Polls are designed to sell more ads & polls only. If it's not a horse race the money dries up.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Home Depot - ya mean lesbo central?
I call the place “HOMO DEPOT.”


18 posted on 04/08/2025 6:54:20 AM PDT by JME_FAN ("It's just the normal noises in here.")
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Wall Street’s Appeal to Greed.

Breaking free is going to be like a mouse getting loose from one of those sticky-traps.

America really needs to enforce the Monroe Doctrine on China - and fast.


19 posted on 04/08/2025 6:55:23 AM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The formula of POTUS Trump will cause the trading partners to go to zero while the US retains a small percentage rate of tariff to help payback the decades of trade imbalance caused by the trading partner.

Just hang in there. If Home Depot raises too much skank, I will switch to Lowe’s or a local supplier.


20 posted on 04/08/2025 6:55:45 AM PDT by Racketeer
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