It's excellent that they named Trump (presumably through the emergency powers of the office of the president) as the party responsible for the tariffs. More headlines need to do this instead of smearing responsibility around with "the government" or some other gauzy entity.
This is pure misinformation. First, a post on a social media site by the President has no force of law and does not "impose" anything. Second, the President cannot invent a new law and can only apply authorities given to him by existing laws. Unless he's talking about DVDs that are manufactured in other countries and shipped to the US, it's extremely unclear to me how this would be implemented using legal mechanisms that actually exist, and it seems extremely unlikely that it would pass Congress.
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