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In reaction to the trade tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump, Rolls-Royce is apparently getting ready to move more of its 
manufacturing activities to the US. According to reports, the British corporation is creating plans to relocate production and 
jobs from foreign locations to facilities in the United States.

A Daily Telegraph story claims that Rolls-Royce is preparing backup plans to get over trade restrictions imposed by Trump, which 
may involve increasing the number of American employees and growing its U.S.-based business. The company, which presently employs 
about 6,000 people, is considering shifting production out of nations like China, Mexico, and Canada that are the focus of 
Trump's trade policy.

With almost $7.7 billion in revenue from the U.S. market last year, Rolls-Royce already receives a sizable portion of its revenue 
from this market, making it an attractive target for additional investment in light of Trump's "America First" trade policy.

As part of a larger response to tariffs supported by President Donald Trump, Rolls-Royce is considering measures to increase its 
manufacturing presence in the United States. According to this week's Daily Telegraph, the British engineering company is getting 
ready to change its global operations to avoid future trade fines on items made outside of the United States.

As imports from countries like China, Canada, and Mexico are threatened by tariffs, the corporation is reportedly planning to 
increase output and hire more staff at its U.S. operations. "If you are making something in countries like China, then you'll be 
looking at whether you can do it in the US instead, " a source familiar with the internal conversations told the Telegraph.

The corporation is apparently examining whether facilities in the UK and mainland Europe could be impacted, even though North 
America is receiving a lot of attention. This is especially true if tariffs start to target those countries.

Rolls-Royce admitted in a letter to shareholders that growing trade barriers 'may result in higher costs and subsequently realign 
the global supply chain." According to the corporation, it is 'modifying supply chain tactics to guarantee robustness in the face 
of possible protectionist policies and changing trade conditions."

With over a third of Rolls-Royce's worldwide sales, the US is currently the company's biggest market. The U.S. Department of 
Defense, Boeing, and Lockheed Martin are some of its major clients. The company's North American businesses generated around 
$7.67 billion in sales in 2024, while its UK and European activities brought in $3.36 billion and $8.4 billion, respectively.

A realignment toward U.S.-based production would be a financially wise decision in light of such numbers, particularly as 
President Trump's proposed tariff regime approaches implementation. Trump has designated April 2nd as "Liberation Day, " on which 
he intends to impose what he refers to as "fair and reciprocal" tariffs on items manufactured abroad.

According to Trump's statement last week, "We're getting back some of the wealth that very, very foolish presidents gave away 
because they had no clue what they were doing."

Rolls-Royce appears to be actively monitoring the signal. "We have more capacity in some of our U.S. operations and are 
constantly investigating how to make sure that our global internal supply chain is optimized for delivery to customers in the 
U.S., " a company spokesman stated.

In response to Trump's trade strategy, the company joins an increasing number of multinational corporations that have announced 
new U.S.-based investments, such as Apple, Oracle, and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. According to reports, major 
automakers, including Hyundai, Kia, Audi, and Honda, are all investigating how to escape impending tariff fines.

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"Trump Derangement Syndrome" Is a Real Mental Condition

All you need to know about "Trump Derangement Syndrome," or TDS.

"Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is a mental condition in which a person has been driven effectively insane due to their dislike 
of Donald Trump, to the point at which they will abandon all logic and reason."

Justin Raimondo, the editorial director of Antiwar.com, wrote a piece in the Los Angeles Times in 2016 that broke TDS down into 
three distinct phases or stages:

"In the first stage of the disease, victims lose all sense of proportion. The president-elect's every tweet provokes a firestorm, 
as if 140 characters were all it took to change the world."

"The mid-level stages of TDS have a profound effect on the victim's vocabulary: Sufferers speak a distinctive language consisting 
solely of hyperbole."

"As TDS progresses, the afflicted lose the ability to distinguish fantasy from reality."

The Point here is simple: TDS is, in the eyes of its adherents, the knee-jerk opposition from liberals to anything and everything 
Trump does. If Trump announced he was donating every dollar he's ever made, TDS sufferers would suggest he was up to something 
nefarious, according to the logic of TDS. There's nothing - not. one. thing. - that Trump could do or say that would be received 
positively by TDSers.

The history of Trump Derangement Syndrome actually goes back to the early 2000s - a time when the idea of Trump as president was 
a punch line for late-night comics and nothing more.

Wikipedia traces its roots to "Bush Derangement Syndrome" - a term first coined by the late conservative columnist Charles 
Krauthammer back in 2003. The condition, as Krauthammer defined it, was "the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal people 
in reaction to the policies, the presidency - nay - the very existence of George W. Bush."