Tuesday, July 14, 2026

(Watch) Donald Trump Thinks People Still Use TiVo to Record Shows, Also Doesn’t Think Tariffs Affect US Consumers

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Does anyone still have a TiVo machine? Do they still make them?

Donald Trump extolled the virtues of Tivo yesterday at his rally. He also likes fax machines, and VCR’s. Or Betamax. He listens to 8 tracks in his car. He’s an old school guy.

No one has told Trump that DVR long ago replaced Tivo. He’s still “taping” shows. He doesn’t realize that digital has replaced all of this. “It’s the greatest invention!” he says of TiVo. He thinks it’s 2002.

See the video below.

Trump also has no idea what tariffs are. He told the crowd that tariffs “Don’t affect this country.”

Um, Donald, they do. Tariffs increase the price of imported goods. But instead of deterring their purchase by consumers, they cause prices to rise, thus affecting US consumers. They have a negative effect on economic growth.

Also, see below.

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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