MrBeast Calls Out Trump Tariffs

Can Donald Trump institute a policy so controversial that even the Zynternet turns against him? Well, he’s gonna try! Trump’s plans for tariffs are proving unpopular on the internet, and not only with the “woke left.” Both apolitical figures and former Trump supporters are speaking out against the policies. Below, all the internet figures concerned about the global economy (and their pockets). And these are the people who normally like algorithms!

MrBeast

The most important man in America, by which we mean MrBeast, criticized Trump’s tariff policies on April 9 on X, calling them “the nail in the coffin” for small businesses. He specifically criticized them as the owner of Feastables, which sells chocolate bars. “Btw we pay our farmers a living income, use fair trade certified beans, etc. so I was already spending a lot on cocoa,” he wrote. “A random price hike was pretty brutal ngl.”

Dave Portnoy

Dave Portnoy claimed on April 8 on his “Davey Day Trader” livestream that he lost $20 million in stocks because of the tariffs, per “Page Six,” and referred to the stock market downturn as “Orange Monday.” Still, he stuck to his guns in supporting Trump overall. “But I’m still here,” he said. “That’s the game,” he added. “Do I like it? No. Am I crying like, ‘Oh, woe is me, I wish I voted for Kamala,’ no.”

Ben Shapiro

Conservative commentator and “WAP” hater Ben Shapiro criticized the tariff policy on his podcast All-In, per AP News. “I think that the way that the tariff plan was rolled out is about as bad a rollout as you could do,” he said. He added that “the idea that this is inherently good and makes the American economy strong is wrongheaded,” saying, “The idea that it is going to result in massive re-shoring of manufacturing is also untrue.”

QTCinderella

In a stream that was clipped for YouTube on April 3, Twitch streamer QTCinderella shared worries about her business, Deco Deco, a space where people book time slots “to craft your own decoden creations,” per the store’s website. “How bad will these tariffs be?” Cinderella asked on her stream, before answering herself. “None of my stuff is from America, I literally could not find a supplier in America that was not just buying stuff from Asia and marking it up,” she said. “Some of my suppliers have already pulled out of the U.S., and some of my suppliers have tripled or quadrupled their price.”

This is a developing story.

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