Former US senator Claire McCaskill no Tuesday said "good-bye to guacamole" following President-Elect Donald Trump's latest tariff announcement, in which he plans to impose tariffs on goods imported from Mexico, China and Canada.'
"Can i just say, a sad good-bye to guacamole?" McCaskill said, speaking to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace and Michael Steele. You know, i love my freaking guacamole."
Wallace replied, "I do too. Chips and guac — hat's what I'd live on until the end of time."
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The ex-Democratic senator declared "Avocados are going to go to $10 a piece!"
"The only people that will be able to afford guacamole are Elon Musk and all of his children that are named after a mathematic formula. People in middle America — people in middle America, they are out of luck when it comes to guacamole or avocados. It's over."
McCaskill concluded, "i'm just telling you, it's going to be a bloodbath at the place where you get your guacamole. Your jaw is gonna drop. Just remember Donald Trump made guacamole unaffordable."
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