"I Voted for Trump" — Now My Industry's Down 23% and Collapsing Fast: Freight CEO’s Heartbreaking Realization

I'm not heartbroken. I'm perfectly OK to see this asshole living in a refrigerator box under an overpass.

...voting for business savvy...

Did this guy sleep through Trump's first term? Things are worse now than it was then but he messed things up the first time too.

TL;DR:

Craig Fuller, founder of FreightWaves and once a potential Trump transportation pick, says the 145% tariffs on Chinese goods have triggered a supply chain collapse, truck traffic from LA ports is down 23%, with 50% import drops predicted. Even major logistics firms like Knight-Swift blame "toxic tariffs" for plummeting volumes.

Heartbreaking? Lol.

Spoiler alert they will still vote republican.

I don't understand, why doesn't he just "pull himself up by by his bootstraps" and work harder. That's what they tell everyone else, right?

I did not vote for a neutron bomb to wipe out supply chains and small businesses...

Yes you did jackass. People like him are the reason I don't have a job anymore.

I'm sick of calling my senators I'm gonna start calling these guys and dunking on them

I'm heartbroken. But not for this motherfucker.

Craig Fuller thought he was voting for business savvy, not economic shock therapy.

Does he know anything at all about the felon who has left a long trail of failed businesses and can bankrupt a casino three casinos? Trump is doing pretty much exactly what he said he'd do and any CEO that doesn't know that deserves to be unemployed.

Heartbreaking? Nah. More like utterly infuriating that they were duped despite the prior term and decades of demonstrated corruption and incompetence.

I’ve no sympathy at all.

In his view, the 145% tariffs on Chinese goods are functionally an embargo, and they’ve been rolled out so suddenly that U.S. companies haven’t had time to adapt. “It’s too much too fast,” Fuller told reporters in a phone interview. “The economy can’t absorb it.”

If only an expert had known this beforehand.

Thoughts and prayers

If only there was some way to know that this would happen!

Man helps throw gasoline on his own house that was set fire by arsonist who told everyone he was going to burn houses ..... the man who threw gasoline around is now heartbroken that his house is on fire.

Doesn't anyone care about the poor CEOs anymore? Lol. Trump said he was going apply tariffs, which always reduce trade. He's getting exactly what he voted for.

Missing from the article: lessons learned.

Not killing enough minorities to make the hit to your wallet worth it, Craig?

Heartbreaking to only them. You get what you vote for

Stock Market is Up.

That's all these people care about. The US can become a country that only knows how to make weird AI advertisements and MLM scams, and so long as GDP goes up these people will think everything is fine.

Face eating leopards gotta eat too.

This, predictably, does not break my heart.

Womp womp.

The only sympathy I have is for the overworked employees.

Very clear example of the media being very divorced from middle class realities.

Bro, we don’t feel bad for poor people who voted for their demise, and you think we would care about CEOs?

"But how could the Leopards eat MY face???" screamed the man who voted for the Leopards-Eating-People's-Faces Party at the Leopards-Eating-People's-Faces Party rally.

Absolute fucking clowns.

This just the beginning. It takes time for all these effects to show themselves. Takes time for mortgages to go I to foreclosure. Etc.

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Welp

LOL! I hope he starves.

That's a shame.

lol

Lol

Lmao

The jobs of the future aren't in the manufacturing. These are the jobs of the past.