Never underestimate the zeal of the Democrat lapdog media to blast President Donald Trump at every concocted opportunity. Toss in demeaning working-class Americans, and the snobs couldn't love it more. 

Such was the case on Sunday when "journalist" Jonathan Karl, ABC's chief Washington correspondent and co-anchor of "This Week with George Stephanopoulos," interviewed Trump Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. The topic was of course Trump's tariff policy — and what impact it might have on American workers.

Karl kicked off the festivities by asking about reports that Trump would exempt certain electronics, which, according to a US Customs and Border Protection notice posted late Friday, would include smartphones, computer monitors, and various electronic parts. 

However, confusion reigned after Trump on Sunday said there were no exceptions made to his tariff announcements, adding that "nobody" will see an exemption in his widening trade war. 

Anyway, here's the impudent snob (Karl):

I'm joined now by Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick. Secretary Lutnick, thank you for being with us this morning. I really appreciate your time. So, let's start with that news late Friday that this exemption on electronics, smartphones, laptop computers and the like. What's the thinking? Why the exemption?

Lutnick responded respectfully:

Well, if you remember, over the past couple of months President Trump has called out pharmaceuticals and semiconductors and autos. He called them sector tariffs. And those are not available for negotiation. They are just going to be part of making sure we reshore the core national security items that need to be made in this country. 

We need to make medicine in this country. We learned it during COVID. We need to make it in this country. We need to make semiconductors. Because if we don't own semiconductors here, remember, all – virtually all semiconductors are made now in Taiwan and they're finished in China. It's important that we reshore them. 

And so the president is going to come out with his policies on semiconductors and pharmaceuticals. They're going to be outside the reciprocal tariffs. And he was just making sure everyone understood that all of these products are outside the reciprocal tariffs and they are going to have their own separate way of being considered.

Karl promptly kicked up the snobbishness:

But – but – but, wait a minute, I'm – I'm asking you about the exemption, not about – I mean the – the notice that went out Friday night saying that electronics, a wide range of electronics, including smartphones, including components used to make microchips, that these are now exempt from the reciprocal tariffs. Why that move?

Again, Lutnick remained professional:

Well, remember, those products are going to be part of the semiconductor sectoral tariffs which are coming. So, you’re going to see this week there will be a register in the federal registry. There will be a notice put out. That is different types of work. So, we're going to do that. We did that in autos. The president is going to do it for pharmaceuticals. I think he’s going to do it for semiconductors. 

So, all those products are going to come under semiconductors, and they're going to have a special focus-type of tariff to make sure that those products get reshored. We need to have semiconductors, we need to have chips, and we need to have flat panels. We need to have these things made in America. We can't be reliant on Southeast Asia for all of the things that operate for us. 

So, what he's doing is he's saying they're exempt from the reciprocal tariffs but they're included in the semiconductor tariffs, which are coming in probably a month or two. So, these are coming soon. You shouldn't think this is really outside of it. Really think of it as being included in the semiconductor space. Much like pharmaceuticals, they require special attention.

After a bit more back and forth, Karl kicked up his "gotcha game" a couple of notches:

But -- but can I ask you? The president's called President Xi a friend. He said the Chinese are proud people. Can you explain to me what the vice president was saying not long ago when he referred to the Chinese people as peasants? Let me -- let me play the sound, so you can hear it.

Vance clip:

We borrow money from Chinese peasants to buy the things those Chinese peasants manufacture. That is not a recipe for economic prosperity. It's not a recipe for low prices, and it's not a recipe for good jobs in the United States of America.

Pro tip for Karl: 

From forced labor programs targeting Uyghurs and other other minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region to child labor, call Chinese manufacturing of untold numbers of goods what you will, but Vance was on point — as usual.

Elite Acela propagandist Jon Karl of ABC shows his disdain for the American working class by asking Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick whether the reindustrialization of America will result in "a nation of cobblers". pic.twitter.com/oACcp4DVZQ

— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) April 13, 2025

Karl then went where he intended to go from the outset:

Did the vice president go off message there? I mean, he's calling the Chinese peasants. This is something that we heard the -- that the Chinese say was ignorant and disrespectful. I mean, I haven't heard Donald Trump talk that way about the Chinese.

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The president also said there's going to be a transition cost, transition problems. I mean we are going to see higher prices in America. It's not like you can open a factory tomorrow to build iPhones or to – to make sneakers, shoes. I mean we – we – we buy a lot of shoes in this country, 99 percent of them are made elsewhere. I mean do you – are we going to become a nation of cobblers again? I mean what – this is going to mean higher prices, isn't it?

OK, that's enough of Jon Karl for one article. 

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So here's the thing, Mr. Karl — and other impertinent Trump-loathing "journalists" in the quasi-official Democrat media. Remember when Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in 2016 called half of Americans a “basket of deplorables"?

And remember when then-President Joe Biden called half of Americans “garbage”? 

So do we.

Yet Jonathan Karl, ever on his politically-biased high horse, gets his shorts in a wad while pretending that JD Vance slighted Chinese laborers. Please.

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