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Donald Trump's Reciprocal Tariffs: Did Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace really predict the trade wars?

IndiaTimes Friday, 4 April 2025
On April 2, 2025, Donald Trump announced sweeping "reciprocal tariffs" on over 60 countries, triggering a wave of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace memes that turned satire into prophecy. Internet users invoked Trade Federation blockades, Queen Amidala’s warnings, and Palpatine’s power grabs to make sense of Trump’s tariff regime, which bypasses Congress via executive authority. The film, once mocked for its political themes, now feels eerily prescient. As global trade convulses and Walmart prices rise, memes have become both coping mechanism and analysis. In a world of penguin tariffs and populist economics, maybe George Lucas was right all along.
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 US President Donald Trump stated that he heard India is set to "drop tariffs very substantially" on American goods. His remarks come just a day before reciprocal global tariffs are set to take effect. Trump expressed surprise, questioning why this hadn’t been done earlier. He hinted that other...

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