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.
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trump does something stupid film at 11.
Here comes the brass tax.
Entirely un-oniony article
Brass Against the Machine
The revolution will have the most epic marches.
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.
Wtf am I reading??
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.
Watch trump putting ICE agents in the polling booths, just as Mussolini used to do
Well Trump wouldn’t need to do that if those crazy terrorist libtards would stop chasing him with them.
He Used Italian marble in the bathroom renovations at the White House.
This is all nonsense.
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?
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.)
John Paulson, a major Trump supporter, has an investment firm that owns musical instrument manufacturer Conn-Selmer. Probably just mere coincidence.
The table is set for the long-awaited sequel to Brassed Off
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.
First they came for immigrants…
French horns need to be the first to go folks.
Pretty sure you mean Freedom Horns, good sir or ma’am.
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/
