Well, howdy there, Internet people, it's Bell again.

So today, we're going to talk about McConnell versus Trump, op-ed edition.

And you already know which one of them wrote an op-ed.

With all of Trump's shenanigans, entanglements, and foreign policy faux pas,

a lot of things that would be major news during a normal presidency

is flying under the radar. Things like one of the most prominent Republicans in the Senate,

writing an op-ed published in the largest paper in his state, calling out the Republican

president's economic policies, and seeming to indicate he believes Trump

is going to cause a massive economic downturn. That happened. Senator Mitch McConnell penned an

op-ed an op-ed in the Courier Journal. Its opening paragraph starts off laying out a historical reality

for those who didn't pay attention

in history class and who have never seen Ferris Bueller's day off. Quote, little under a century

ago, an ill-fated law helped spiral the Wall Street crash of 1929 into a worldwide depression.

The smoot holly tariff encompassed roughly one quarter of all imports,

flaring tensions with U.S. trading partners and halving American imports and exports as a result.

Caught in the crosshairs, Americans learned the hard way that trade wars

are expensive. And today, we ought to be careful deciding with whom to pick them. From there,

McConnell goes on to blast Trump's tariff policies. He quotes Senator Rand Paul when he said, tariffs are simply taxes. Taxing trade

will mean less trade and higher prices. He then goes on to give the numbers about how it's going

to impact Kentucky specifically. Kentucky is not a wealthy state, and the numbers are surprising. He zeroed in just

on Canada and Mexico when he wrote they bought, quote, nearly 10 billion in manufactured goods

and 300 million in agricultural exports from Kentucky alone. These economic tailwinds touch virtually every family and every industry.

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