"I Voted for Trump" — Now My Industry's Down 23% and Collapsing Fast: Freight CEO’s Heartbreaking Realization
"I Voted for Trump" — Now My Industry's Down 23% and Collapsing Fast: Freight CEO’s Heartbreaking Realization
Fuller runs Freightwaves. He’s all over the place prognosticating the shipping and logistics community.
I could find no source for the OP post other than the linked popup “news” site.
Fuller is more recently quoted as saying the “recession” (the market downturn due to trump’s idiotic knee-jerk tariff implementation) is over and expecting a market change.
Dude’s an idiot, just another CEO analyst always trying to put a positive spin on any negative event to do with his industry.
It's disheartening that no one in this comment section applied some critical reading skills and questioned this source.
Will you please explain?
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.
The article explains the differences. In the first term tariffs were targeted and rolled out slowly. The person in the article expected the same in Trump's second term.
The first term tariffs also caused reciprocal tariffs to be put in place that caused short term ($27B from mid 2018 to 2019) and long term damage to our agriculture industries by enabling other countries to develop their own industrial base to replace the US. Trump ended up bailing out US farmers with packages that equalled 92% of that the tariffs brought in.
I stand by my first statement. The farmer wasn't paying attention to the first term.
People have very short memories.
Heartbreaking? Lol.
Yes heartbreaking! I don't care about all those people being detained and deported unlawfully. But think of poor old me, I got what I voted for and now I'm sad! How could I've ever expected him to do what he's known for, running things into bankruptcy?!
remember until it affects them personally in a negative way they don't care about what this administration does. This is what make it so difficult to change a large population of trump supporter's minds, because they seem to not have much empathy for anyone but themselves.
Heartbreaking for them
Unfortunately I have no sympathy for these fools
They had a heart?
Won't somebody think of the hopeless CEOs?
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.
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.
Hey, be fair to the guy. He only voted for all the ways Trump promised to hurt the people he didn't like, not for the ways Trump promised to hurt him.
Sucks, bro. Sorry. I tried to stop this.
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?
That is a real shame. All these people are choosing to be poor. The real trick of this whole thing is you need to be independently wealthy for it to work for you. If only these folks understood that, they might choose differently.
Spoiler alert they will still vote republican.
At some level, I'm just jealous of these people for getting what they voted for. I haven't gotten what I voted for ever since I was old enough to vote.
Bet they won't stop voting Republican tho
"See the next GOP president will fix it all with this one simple trick. Yup. It'll totally work. USA USA."
If that doesn’t work, elect them again!
They are the only game in town, particularly at the state and local level.
Republicans are in a suicide pact with their party. If you try to leave, your peers will kill you that much faster.
I'm heartbroken. But not for this motherfucker.
I'm sick of calling my senators I'm gonna start calling these guys and dunking on them
That sounds amazing!! DO IT!!!!
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.
Three casinos.
I thought it was 5 casinos and a resort (with a casino on)...?
Edit:
Bankruptcies were...
1991: Trump Taj Mahal
1992: Trump Castle Hotel & Casino
1992: Trump Plaza Casino
1992: Trump Plaza Hotel (not a casino, just a hotel.)
2004: Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts
2009: Trump Entertainment Resorts (casino holding company. FFS, not only did he bankrupt casinos. Which is one of the most lucrative businesses out there, he also bankrupted a company that handles the casinos. How the fuck is that even -legally- possible to bankrupt a company that owns the most lucrative businesses!!!)
There are numerous other businesses that also failed spectacularly. Plus there 'businesses' that were just scams, the university that never was.
Promises of extensive redevelopment that got 'put on hold' after his golf courses got built etc.
6 total bankruptcies.
It's all emotions. Facts don't matter.
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.
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.
If only there was some way to know that this would happen!
Sadly history has nothing to teach us and we can't predict the future. What are ya gonna do?
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.
Not killing enough minorities to make the hit to your wallet worth it, Craig?
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?
Womp womp.
The only sympathy I have is for the overworked employees.
Face eating leopards gotta eat too.
Heartbreaking to only them. You get what you vote for
This, predictably, does not break my heart.
"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.
I think the one thing that visual misses out on is that no one accounted for how many would describe themselves as loving having their face eaten.
Or at least say that it's worth it to own the libs
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.
The stock market is around the same level it was 6 months ago and still down from the beginning of his presidency
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Where is Squid when we need them most?
This just the beginning. It takes time for all these effects to show themselves. Takes time for mortgages to go I to foreclosure. Etc.
That's a shame.
I heard this in Jerry's voice.
LOL! I hope he starves.
Welp
Lol
Lmao
lol
The jobs of the future aren't in the manufacturing. These are the jobs of the past.
Retards will vote for another corrupt criminal.
This statement doesn't need a slur to get the point across
Protecting the people who vote for a full resume of corruption, scams and being a convicted felon into presidnecy is way more important than pointing out their flaws in mental state.
As a disabled person myself, I encourage you to seethe harder
