President Trump’s China tariffs are threatening Christmas. Toy makers, children’s shops and specialty retailers are pausing orders for the winter holidays as the import taxes cascade through supply chains. Factories in China produce nearly 80 percent of all toys and 90 percent of Christmas goods sold in America. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/business/trump-tariffs-christmas-china.html
Then quickly MAWA !!!!! Make America Work Again!!!! Quickly make those toys. If not, MAWA will become Make America Weak Again. But then who dare to invest in making such toys when your factories will be under utilized for many months in a year and when the labor cost is very high?
Obviously Trump is now trying to roll back his Tariffs, but if Walmart, Target and all those other Retailers have empty shelves, the little Kiddies are going to have to settle for more expensive locally made or go without.
Children haven't been playing with toys since 2012. If I had kids, I wouldn't want their minds occupied with plastic colorful nonsense crap and hype. In 50 years Holidays won't mean anything anymore. So as religion. Maybe by 150 years, definitely. The world is constantly changing, for better or worse it's definitely always changing
I wish it were 5 more years. Holidays used to mean something decades and decades ago but in today's world it's just an outlet for consumption and creating an economy. There is no good feel holiday spirit any.more since everything now is about profits and consumption for higher gdp results.