Instead of sticking to movies that teach boss babes their big city lives are incomplete without a man in it, Hallmark is involving itself in the trade war. Stores are handing out price increase sheets due to Trump's tariffs. Here's the rub, though... aren't their products made in Kansas? As in, the Kansas that is in America and wouldn't be subject to tariffs? That's what TikToker "Prevent & Limit" thought, so she inquired.

Before we get started, let's file this under "for content purposes only." Not that other companies aren't pledging to raise prices. But there was already a brouhaha over Amazon showing the alleged tariff costs that turned out to be fake news. Or, was real news until Trump yelled at Jeff Bezos, who then had the company claim it was fake news. It all depends on what Anonymous media sources you want to believe at any given moment.

We're going off the word from someone on TikTok. It's going viral and people are talking about it, so let's.

Everything is made right here in the United States. I said okay, so why are you guys raising the prices -- and not just on some items like if you had like one or two items that are made and manufactured in other countries and have it shipped here -- this is a generic list for everything ... So she calls it an "economic climate.”

Accepting everything here as true (the original video on her TikTok channel is approaching a million views), this means one of two things. The first is that the company is doing this for political reasons to hurt Trump. The Google isn't showing me anything much of the Hall Family's political leanings other than HallPAC released the same generic statement after January 6th that everyone else did.

The dumber one would be if this were done for greed purposes, using the concept of the "economic climate" as an excuse to jack up prices. What makes this the dumber one is that the core reason for Trump's tariffs, outside of dealing with China, is to get more things made in America. If at least 80% of Hallmark items are already made in America, then ADVERTISE THAT! The smart move would be to brag that the company isn't raising prices because they don't need to. They are already Made in the USA.

But that's all depending on whether any of this is true. As this goes more viral, I anticipate a company statement blaming a consultant of a third party for the mix-up.

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