Link: https://www.classicfm.com/music-news/donald-trump-tariffs-brass-instruments/

The administration argues that relying on imported metals could reduce demand for American-made materials, leaving the US with less domestic production and fewer critical supplies in the event of a national emergency.

And because brass instruments are made mostly from copper and zinc, they have been swept into the same net as fire extinguishers, floor safes, electrical cables, welding-machine parts, and tanker trailers.

🤯

There's a particular trumpet sound that describes this situation perfectly

the tariffs that, again, the courts already ruled were unconstitutional. Trump doesn't have the authority to levy taxes/tariffs. And yet, he keeps ordering tariffs around for bullshit national security reasons.

A national security threat created by Republicans decades ago by allowing encouraging the export of American jobs to foreign countries in order for corporations to take the lazy path towards improving profits via slave labor freely available in other countries.

The entire GOP establishment and their corporate benefactors sold out our futures for a quick and easy profit. They should be held criminally responsible for destroying this country for their own gain.

Trump watched Eagle Eye and thinks Zuckerberg is going to try to assassinate him with a brass band.

I doubt they will ever be held criminally responsible, but perhaps you could hold them gravitationally responsible? Maybe by dropping them off a building?

Who would hold them responsible? They won't even publish documents thats even steps before actually getting accused and prosecuted and punished?
The kid rapist elite has nothing to be afraid of. The DOJ has no power over them, while genuine US citizens are getting executed in daylight on the streets and human beings are held in worst condition than cattle.

A group of national security problems declares yet another thing as a national security threat.

Old man yells at cloud.

Or at this point, old man yells at anything to distract you from the epstein files.

Sorry there's just not enough time in our 24-hour news cycle to cover the pedophile ring holding the richest country in the world hostage. We have to run these stories about Fauci. Then we have to cover every stupid fucking thing Donald Trump says but NOT the fact that he rapes kids

thank mr skeletal 🎺

Someone tell the Evangelical Nutters that Trump is trying to prevent the Apocalypse by stealing all the firstborns trumpets.

can you blame him?

it is his dooty

It's not every day that ClassicFM gets to report on issues of national security.

Article on this from Reason Magazine, the only major-ish outlet that's reported on this so far. In fact, it looks like they originated this story: https://reason.com/2026/08/05/trumps-newest-tariffs-could-protect-america-from-the-national-security-risk-of-brass-instruments/

The POTUS has no power to levy taxes without an act of congress.

There are a bunch of acts of.congress that give discretionary power to the POTUS for certain specific taxes in response to certain international actions.

Here's a plausible sounding website found from a quick web search.

https://legalunitedstates.com/can-trump-still-impose-tariffs/

I cannot understand why Trump just says "Do these things that break the law" and everyone just fucking does it.

I was actually shocked that he didn't just coerce everyone into halting birthright citizenship

I mean, didnt he? He just put out an executive order to attack birthright citizenship immediately after and in response to the supreme court upholding that its a constitutional right. He doesnt give af what courts say, or the law says.

First they came for immigrants...

Finally, I can put my trombone skills to use! 🪊🪊🪊

French horns need to be the first to go folks.

Pretty sure you mean Freedom Horns, good sir or ma’am.

leaving the US with less domestic production

You’re about 40 years late on that one. I know MAGA is just rich people living out their “what the Gipper should’ve done!” fantasy, but you can’t just try and pick up where he left off.

The table is set for the long-awaited sequel to Brassed Off

Does Trump have any brass instrument investments? This feels like an episode of The Goon Show... (In "Lurgi Strikes Britain", the fictional Lurgi/Lurgy illness is used to boost sales of brass band instruments, which supposedly protect against the disease.)

The move is part of the Trump administration’s broader tariff strategy, which it says will encourage people to buy American-made goods and attract investment from foreign companies.

So...isn't this just an admission that it really has nothing to do with national security?

He Used Italian marble in the bathroom renovations at the White House.

This is all nonsense.

Well Trump wouldn't need to do that if those crazy terrorist libtards would stop chasing him with them.

Because all the pedo-enablers are currently in power because they entertain the pedo president, specifically. Hence they do whatever he says because that's how they stay in power. You can see from some recent movement in the Reps that they do know they need to offboard at the right moment, and they're starting to prepare for that, but right now it's how they stay in power.

And, it adds that since Trump is constantly extracting the money of american taxpayers for his personal wealth via the control the presidency gives him, this system enables Republicans to largely get away with the same thing, hence they probably not only gain power but also massive wealth from it.

Watch trump putting ICE agents in the polling booths, just as Mussolini used to do

John Paulson, a major Trump supporter, has an investment firm that owns musical instrument manufacturer Conn-Selmer. Probably just mere coincidence.

You can not make this up. The next person stating that this or that plot line or twist does not make sense needs to stop for a moment, take a deep breath and have a sip of water.

I am waiting for a real life deus ex machina moment next.

On the plus side, RFK Jr said eating aluminium foil is perfectly healthy. He even offered to teach some abdominal exercises that can help roll the foil around the roadkill in your gut, to help keep it unfresh between digestion cycles, which are totally a thing, too.

Which makes little sense because Conn-Selmer doesn’t just manufacture brass instruments and saxophones, they also exclusively import a lot of the European and Asian “alternatives” (i.e. illusions of choice). The Selmer (not Selmer (USA)) part of Conn-Selmer are made in France and like half of the other brands are Chinese or Japanese.

I mean, regardless of what happens, Conn-Selmer has a practical monopoly, but even though Conn-Selmer does manufacture in the US, they probably still rely on importing metals, right?

Wtf am I reading??

Mmm what about gym equipment?

Brass Against the Machine

The revolution will have the most epic marches.

Entirely un-oniony article

All of the rules and laws he wants apparently have no jurisdiction on him. Just like hiring undocumented immigrants in his businesses

Here comes the brass tax.

trump does something stupid film at 11.

Brass Against is a rock+brass band that started doing covers of Rage Against The Machine, they also cover other rock and metal acts. Pretty cool.

https://brassagainst.com/

I couldn't help but think about Severance's season 2 finale

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msVLoGMkaQo

Yeah, I thought of them, wasn't sure about the name. Shortened like this it could also be a reference to Rise Against.

What about it? The country is in the vast middle of an obesity epidemic.

Anything to make you forget he's a sex offender pedophile drug addict with a hole in the top of his mouth

And by the looks of it we have pretty good marble here.

We finally got down to it.