US Citizen here. What is “Liberation Day” and why have I not heard about it, before?

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Is this a new holiday? What is it celebrating? Do we get the day off from work? Will banks and the Post Office be closed?

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  1. candlecart Avatar

    Your future day when u lot fire trump

  2. Charming_Tower_188 Avatar

    Pretty sure (there been so much stuff and my brain is tired so hopefully I’m right) Liberation Day is just the day everything in the US gets more expensive. Liberate the money in your bank account and give it to the corporations who are about the charge you more for goods because of tarrifs.

    So probably best not to book it off work or celebrate to hard, might need that money. Best of luck!

  3. HomelessHobo1 Avatar

    A day for you all to marvel at the man you somehow let be in charge!!!

    Enjoy!

  4. JimmyRevSulli Avatar

    The day Trump stops edging and finally busts his load of economic disaster

  5. seanmonaghan1968 Avatar

    Liberation day appears to be the start of trying to remove the IRS by imposing massive sales taxes on all goods either directly from tariffs on imported complete goods or imported components and raw materials. new capital investment will slow due to uncertainty. So economic activity slows while inflation increases. Middle and lower American families will be worse off.
    Obviously pissing off the rest of the world could also result in a political move away from the dollar as the reserve currency.

  6. OjamaPajama Avatar

    Yeah I’m American too and I had no clue wtf that was all about. I looked it up and it’s just some Trump bullshit, basically he’s rolling out tariffs and calling it “liberation”.

  7. AmericanAntiD Avatar

    It’s just a propagandistic cover for the wide spread taxation of middle class wealth. The sad part is there is already a liberation day for the allied forces defeating the Nazis in Europe. It is the 8th of May. It is more than cynical that he would try to draw a comparison, and I think if someone else gave him the idea, then it might be deeper than that.