Trump's highest tariff will kill tiny African kingdom of Lesotho, economist says

[u/RyuTheGuy]

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/trump-slaps-tiny-african-kingdom-lesotho-with-highest-tariff-all-2025-04-03/

[u/The_Amish_FBI]

Trump doesn't even know how to spell "Lesotho", let alone know what it is.

[u/Fish_Totem → u/The_Amish_FBI]

Yeah that’s literally his quote from the not-SOTU. He namedrops them as a country that “no one has ever heard of before.” Which of course is true from the perspective of most of his base.

[u/Dense_Delay_4958 → u/Fish_Totem]

It was like when Hegseth didn't know what ASEAN was and MAGAs acted like it was some obscure piece of trivia

If they don't know it, nobody does

[u/Wolf6120 → u/Dense_Delay_4958]

Worse still, if they don't know it then the actual people it impacts don't exist/matter either.

Like "Nobody even knows where the Hell Lesotho is” as a policy justification is already deeply insulting enough to all the people in the US who DO know where it is, of course, but it's infinitely more vile to the actual people of Lesotho whose well-being and even their very existence is treated like an irritating little afterthought.

[u/SenranHaruka → u/Wolf6120]

the old Bush era meme that americans are geographically stunted needs to come back.

[u/St_Patrice → u/SenranHaruka]

Meme? It's reality

[u/savuporo → u/The_Amish_FBI]

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