Comedian Dave Chappelle‘s prediction about President Trump’s tariffs has resurfaced on social media amid the China trade war.
Trump placed a 34% increase on China when he announced his tariff plan on Liberation Day on April 2. That was on top of 20% import taxes rolled out earlier this year on Beijing.
The president pledged another 50% tariffs after Beijing responded to his tariff threat with a 34% increase on U.S. goods coming into China – with China blasting the tariffs as ‘blackmail’ and vowing to ‘fight to the end.’
Americans could now see massive price hikes on iPhones, computers and toys as a result.
In the wake of the trade war, a 2017 clip of Chappelle began making the rounds on social media again, in which the star joked about Trump bringing manufacturing jobs back to America from China, and iPhones rising to $9000 each as a result.
In the Netflix special clip Chappelle said: ‘All this motherf****r’s ideas sound like high people ideas, like, he doesn’t think these things through before he tells us
Comedian Dave Chappelle’s prediction about President Trump’s tariffs has resurfaced on social media amid the China trade war
On Tuesday Trump threatened a 104 percent tariff on China after the country refused to lift its retaliatory tariff on the U.S
‘I’m gonna get these jobs from China and bring them back here to America.
‘He just tells us what he’s thinking before telling him that s**t sounds nuts.
‘So iPhones can be $9,000? Leave that job in China where it belongs. None of us want to work that hard, stop trying to give us Chinese jobs.
‘I want to wear Nikes – I don’t want to make them.’
Fans lauded the clip with one writing: ‘The dave Chappelle joke was a prophecy i guess
‘Anti/pro Trump or anti/pro Tariff…..you got to admit, Dave Chappelle’s take was pretty funny. I’m sure you saw it. If not, look it up (unless you find vulgarity offensive, in which case, don’t).
‘That Apple segment just reminded me of it.
‘Dave Chappelle’s comedy bit on the topic holds true.’
In the wake of the trade war, a 2017 clip of Chappelle began making the rounds on social media in which the star joked about Trump bringing jobs back to America from China, and iPhones rising to $9000 each as a result
Fans lauded the clip with one writing: ‘The dave Chappelle joke was a prophecy i guess’
China now faces another 50% in tariffs after Beijing missed a noon deadline to withdraw the retaliatory import taxes it imposed on the United States – Trump pictured Tuesday
On Tuesday Trump threatened a 104 percent tariff on China after the country refused to lift its retaliatory tariff on the U.S.
China now faces another 50% in tariffs after Beijing missed a noon deadline to withdraw the retaliatory import taxes it imposed on the United States.
The new tariffs will go into effect at 12:01 am, the White House said.
Defending Trump’s Tariffs, which have already sparked a 4,000-point freefall on Wall Street over the last week, Vice President JD Vance told Fox and Friends last Thursday that, ‘we borrow money from Chinese peasants to buy the things those Chinese peasants manufacture.’
‘What has the globalist economy gotten the United States of America? And the answer is, fundamentally, it’s based on two principles – incurring a huge amount of debt to buy things that other countries make for us,’ the vice president said.
On Tuesday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian reacted to Vance’s comments during a news conference on Trump’s tariffs.
‘It’s both astonishing and lamentable to hear this vice president make such ignorant and disrespectful remarks,’ he said.
The war over manufacturing jobs which the new meme mocks has been raging between the US and China since President Trump’s first term in office.
Trump has consistently advocated for imposing tariffs on Chinese goods as a strategy to bring manufacturing jobs back to the US since 2017.
His core argument is that tariffs make Chinese imports more expensive, which incentivizes American companies to produce goods domestically, thereby creating jobs and reducing reliance on foreign labor.
However, China’s social media is now mocking the idea that Americans will be willing to take over these labor-intensive jobs.
In January Chappelle returned to Saturday Night Live with a message for Donald Trump as he joked about everything from the Los Angeles wildfires to conflict in the Middle East.
The comic’s appearances on the show have drawn controversy and headlines since his monologue after Trump won in 2016.
He’s since returned to the limelight as an A-list comic, making the news and causing laughs and offense for his comments on Trump, Biden, transgender people and anti-Semitism, with rumors of even some SNL writers boycotting his 2022 appearance.
Chappelle – at one point joking that he was ‘tired of being controversial’ and hoping to ‘turn over a new leaf’ – ended his set on the NBC show discussing Trump, saying: ‘He’ll be the 47th president, he’s done it again.’
The comedian relayed an anecdote about the late President Jimmy Carter going to Palestine with minimal security while Chappelle was visiting the Middle East 20 years ago.
In January Chappelle returned to Saturday Night Live with a message for Donald Trump as he joked about everything from the Los Angeles wildfires to conflict in the Middle East
‘I will never forget the images of a former American president walking with no security with thousands of Palestinians cheering him on and when I saw that picture, it brought tears to my eyes. I said, ‘I don’t know if that’s a good president but that right there, I am sure, is a great man.’ It made me feel very proud,’ he claimed.
He then said that ‘the presidency is no place for petty people,’ before addressing Trump and the rest of the nation, joking that ‘I know you watch the show.’
To Trump and America, Chappelle said: ‘Remember, whether people voted for you or not, they’re all counting on you. Whether they like you or not, they’re all counting on you. The whole world is counting on you. I mean this when I say this, good luck. Do better next time. Please, all of us, do better next time.’
