Trump brutally mocked over stunning tariff 'admission': 'Thought they were lowering costs'

Donald Trump quietly rolled back tariffs on beef, coffee, and tropical fruit Friday – a dramatic retreat from one of his signature second-term policies. The move comes amid mounting pressure on his administration to address high grocery prices.

But while the president may have rolled them back without much fanfare, the move didn’t go unnoticed as opponents on Capitol Hill and across social media were paying attention.

Democratic Rep. Don Beyer (R-VA) called the rollback “an admission that his trade wars are driving prices up for the American people,” while noting that tariffs remain on thousands of other goods. “That is still just as true for the thousands of other goods he's keeping tariffs on,” he added.

Other critics were more blunt. TV producer Morgan J. Freeman told his followers on X: “Scam-artist Trump created today's inflation with his idiotic tariffs -- and now that some adult explained what ‘affordability’ means -- he's lowering / removing his tariffs to bring costs back to where Biden had them and acting like he's some kind of hero. He's a low-IQ scam-artist."

The popular account @Angry_Staffer wrote: “Trump dropped the tariffs on coffee, beef, and tropical fruit to LOWER PRICES. I thought other countries paid for those?”

Meanwhile, political commentator and entrepreneur Ed Krassenstein posted: “President Trump has just signed an executive order ELIMINATING tariffs on beef, coffee, and tropical fruits because he found out he was causing inflation like democrats said all along."

Other critics highlighted the MAGA administration policy's contradictions.

The Lincoln Project wrote in an X post: “If the tariffs worked so well then why is Trump removing them on so many things quietly on a Friday night?"

Democratic influencer Harry Sisson added: “Hey MAGA: If tariffs are so great, why did Trump just remove them on food imports like beef, coffee, bananas, and more? I thought they were lowering costs and helping? What happened???? Total frauds.”

“So let me get this straight,” Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock wrote on X. “The President’s plan to lower prices is to roll back some of his own tariffs?”

Joey Politano, author of the economics newsletter Apricitas Economics, celebrated the new move, writing on X: “It only took 7 months, but my ‘why tariff banana?’ crusade has FINALLY been vindicated: the White House has exempted bananas (and a bunch of other tropical fruits) from the tariffs today Now if they could just realize this whole trade war is stupid and counterproductive…”