Dave Chappelle’s eerie prediction about Trump’s tariffs resurfaces amid China trade war

Comedian Dave Chappelle’s eerie prediction about President Trump’s tariffs has resurfaced on social media amid the China trade war.

Trump placed a 34% increase on China when he announced his tariff plan on Liberation Day. That was on top of 20% import taxes rolled out earlier this year on Beijing.

The president pledged another 50% tariffs after Beijing responded to his tariff threat with a 34% increase on U.S. goods coming into China – with China blasting the tariffs as ‘blackmail’ and vowing to ‘fight to the end.’

Americans could now see massive price hikes on iPhones, computers and toys as a result. 

In the wake of the trade war, a 2017 clip of Chappelle began making the rounds on social media again, in which the star joked about Trump bringing manufacturing jobs back to America from China, and iPhones rising to $9000 each as a result.

In the Netflix special clip Chappelle said: ‘All this motherf****r’s ideas sound like high people ideas, like, he doesn’t think these things through before he tells us

‘I’m gonna get these jobs from China and bring them back here to America.

‘He just tells us what he’s thinking before telling him that s**t sounds nuts. 

‘So iPhones can be $9,000? Leave that job in China where it belongs. None of us want to work that hard, stop trying to give us Chinese jobs.

‘I want to wear Nikes – I don’t want to make them.’

Fans lauded the clip with one writing: ‘The dave Chappelle joke was a prophecy i guess

‘Anti/pro Trump or anti/pro Tariff…..you got to admit, Dave Chappelle’s take was pretty funny. I’m sure you saw it. If not, look it up (unless you find vulgarity offensive, in which case, don’t).

‘That Apple segment just reminded me of it.

‘Dave Chappelle’s comedy bit on the topic holds true.’

On Tuesday Trump threatened a 104 percent tariff on China after the country refused to lift its retaliatory tariff on the U.S.

China now faces another 50% in tariffs after Beijing missed a noon deadline to withdraw the retaliatory import taxes it imposed on the United States.

The new tariffs will go into effect at 12:01 am, the White House said. 

Defending Trump’s Tariffs, which have already sparked a 4,000-point freefall on Wall Street over the last week, Vice President JD Vance told Fox and Friends last Thursday that, ‘we borrow money from Chinese peasants to buy the things those Chinese peasants manufacture.’

‘What has the globalist economy gotten the United States of America? And the answer is, fundamentally, it’s based on two principles – incurring a huge amount of debt to buy things that other countries make for us,’ the vice president said.

On Tuesday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian reacted to Vance’s comments during a news conference on Trump’s tariffs.

‘It’s both astonishing and lamentable to hear this vice president make such ignorant and disrespectful remarks,’ he said.

The war over manufacturing jobs which the new meme mocks has been raging between the US and China since President Trump’s first term in office.

Trump has consistently advocated for imposing tariffs on Chinese goods as a strategy to bring manufacturing jobs back to the US since 2017.

His core argument is that tariffs make Chinese imports more expensive, which incentivizes American companies to produce goods domestically, thereby creating jobs and reducing reliance on foreign labor.

However, China’s social media is now mocking the idea that Americans will be willing to take over these labor-intensive jobs.