Trump tariffs and the upcoming gold-for-Bitcoin exchange trick
By:
Martin Vrijland
Date:
April 4, 2025
What will be the effect of the tariffs instituted by Donald Trump and set on April 2, 2025, the day he referred to as "Liberation Day"? Why bother with that question knowing that something big like a civil war is coming? The intended effect was that manufacturing companies will return to the U.S., but the real effect is that China already announced a 34% retaliatory tariff today and probably more countries will follow suit. The effect of that, in turn, is that it is likely to end in hand-to-hand negotiations in which all the parties actually all lower their tariffs to please Trump and thus improve US competitiveness. Or is there another catch?

A side effect of imposing these tariffs is that this in turn contributes to the growing opposition to Donald Trump. The so-called deepstate is grabbing this with both hands to shout that Trump is a dangerous dictator. Yesterday, on April 3, 2025, the U.S. Senate passed a resolution designed to stop President Trump from imposing tariffs on Canadian goods. The resolution passed by a vote of 51 to 48, with four Republican senators - Rand Paul (Kentucky), Susan Collins (Maine), Mitch McConnell (Kentucky) and Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) - joining Democrats in supporting the measure.

Now such a resolution doesn't say much. It all belongs to political acting for the benefit of the cameras present, but the resolution was officially an attempt to undo the national emergency previously declared by the Trump administration to justify tariffs on Canadian imports. So this action in the Senate is nothing more than a symbolic victory for opponents of the tariffs. The Republican-dominated House of Representatives has yet to approve the resolution, and while this could happen, Trump could then override such a result with his veto power. If Trump vetoes the resolution, Congress would need a two-thirds majority in both the Senate and House to override the veto and allow the resolution to still take effect.

All in all, this so-called tariff war is nothing more than political show for the rabble. Trump plays the role of the powerful leader and he plays the role of Julius Caesar in particular. In that Caesar role, he must eventually encounter such resistance that he will be killed by someone from his own ranks; just as Caesar was killed by Brutus. And to achieve that, he has to be maneuvered into the situation where he seems to encounter more and more resistance. In this, Elon Musk's activities with DOGE are already quite a thorn in the side of the alleged deepstate, and the reorganization within the FBI, CIA and Justice Department are also contributing nicely. The release of the JFK files has so far not created the desired dust-up, but all in all, team Trump seems increasingly intent on cleaning up the evil deepstate.

Of course Trump's tariffs are going to hurt the economy. At least; you have to rephrase that. When you say "the economy," you are talking about a country's accounts; Gross Domestic Product and so on. It won't hurt the economy that much, because Trump is said to have already brought in $7 trillion (a 7 with 12 zeros, or $7,000 billion) in business investment pledges, and companies will undoubtedly try to bring their manufacturing to the US. It's going to hit citizens' wallets because the tariffs will lead to huge price increases. And that may be nothing more than an alibi to mask already skyrocketing inflation by being able to blame the tariffs. All in all, this will not give Trump much popularity gain among the population in the short term. But now comes the catch.

The real problem of the US, being the $36 trillion debt mountain you don't solve by bringing in $7 trillion in investment promises here. At best, that will be positive for jobs in the few states where those factories will be located. Nor do you solve that debt with tariffs, which might bring in a few hundred billion. Finally, you continue to pay interest on that $36 trillion national debt, and although tariffs have their effect on stock markets and stock prices fall and you could then expect a flight to government bonds, it remains vest pocket-breadth and a drop in the bucket. The essence of the misery remains: the mountain of debt. It can only be paid off with a much more drastic measure. And it is precisely this measure that may well come out of the hat under Donald Trump.

What Trump intends, in my opinion, is to cause a temporary malaise in the stock markets, causing major investors to flee to gold. Meanwhile, the big institutions like Strategy (formerly Micro Strategy of Michael Saylor) and Blackrock (of Larry Fink) are "shorting" Bitcoin, keeping the price of Bitcoin artificially low. Then the big exchange trick can be pulled! The exchange trick where the value of gold has been driven to maximum highs while Bitcoin has been kept artificially low. So what is that, the big exchange trick? The switch trick whereby the U.S. Treasury (the Treasury Department) revalues all of its gold certificates (which is still on the books at a value of around $46 per tray ounce) to today's value (around $3000); then sells its physical gold to London, so that London can solve its shortage of gold created by the paper gold trade (see this commentary) and thus cash in several hundred billions in dollar-by-dollar gold sales.

From that money, the U.S. Treasury buys Bitcoin which leads to an exponential rise in Bitcoin prices. Bitcoin is so scarce and demand will outstrip supply so dramatically that the price per coin could shoot up to several million per coin. If the U.S. manages to get hold of, say, 5 million Bitcoins and the price shoots up (due to this short-squeeze) to $7.2 million per coin, that would be worth as much as the U.S. national debt ($36 trillion) and Trump could declare the U.S. debt-free in one fell swoop. He could then pay off the national debt to the Fed or he could announce a financial reset and replace the old dollar system with a stablecoin and blockchain-based dollar with Bitcoin as the new gold standard and thus put the Fed out of business.

That shorting is a technical term that I explained earlier, but the bottom line is that a company like Blackrock can, for example, borrow Bitcoin on paper against the promise that it will return it on a certain date for the amount borrowed. If this borrowing happens behind the scenes, but Blackrock dumps that Bitcoin on a public exchange (an exchange for the common man where anyone can buy and sell Bitcoin and on which anyone can see the publicly known price of Bitcoin), then the price of Bitcoin drops. That lower price ensures that Blackrock can then buy back the Bitcoin cheaper and deliver it back to the party with whom it entered into the short contract. This way you can keep the price of Bitcoin artificially low (at least for a while). Preferably until the US Treasury dumps its gold to buy as much Bitcoin as possible at the lowest possible price.

The side effect is that the price of gold will plummet, because investors tend to choose the most stable investment in terms of value, and if Bitcoin's market share (due to the spike caused by the U.S. Treasury Department purchase) takes over gold's market share, all the capital will flow toward Bitcoin and the price of gold will plummet exponentially. And then suddenly Trump will be the people's hero, because he will have paid off the US national debt within his first term. No one sees this coming, but it is, in my opinion, the real reason for the so-called tariff war. That tariff war is causing the stock markets to plummet and driving up the price of gold to the desired maximum high; that maximum high that is desirable to get as many dollars for gold as possible.

How does this fit into the picture of the coming civil war predicted here and even another assassination attempt on Donald Trump? Well, this fits perfectly in that picture, because if you assume that the so-called deepstate likes to maintain the fiat money system, because that very money system has enriched them, then it more than fits in perfectly. They do not want the FED (the U.S. Central Bank) disbanded at all, because they were precisely the ones from whom the FED bought up debt securities, thus receiving billions in free money. They were precisely the ones who received all the fraudulent money, while this kept the rest of the people in the desired deficits and misery of the fiat money system. In short, it was the ideal distribution of power belonging to the "oppression by debt" money system.

The elite clubs and the bankers, including the bought politicians will feel threatened by this brilliant ploy to pay off the US debt mountain and therefore this is an additional motivation for an assassination attempt on Donald Trump.

And an assassination attempt on Donald Trump will immediately lead to civil war. Although it is difficult to estimate exactly how the script will unfold, this scenario certainly seems to be a possibility. For example, can we also expect something like an attack by Iran on Washington D.C. and, say, Paris? There are plenty of roads that lead to Rome, but what is certain is that a script will be followed; a script in which Trump must die, because he must rise from the dead as a messianic figure after the Phoenix moment. And in his Caesar role, he will leave behind a treasure chest for his followers. We will discover the exact framing of the script in the near future.