Trump has said several times that all these tariffs will take effect on April 2nd, and now with Trump saying that Secondary tariffs against countries who purchase oil from Venezuela also begins on April 2nd and calls the day “Liberation Day.”
He originally called the day he was elected that, but now it’s on April 2nd. What’s so special about April 2nd besides him saying on camera that he’s superstitious about starting on April 1st.
Is Liberation Day “The Storm”, the day the military activates, mass arrests, or is it just branding and just another day more or less?
Posted on X: I asked Grok3 what was the significance of April 2 in history.
This was its response:
The Coinage Act, most notably the Coinage Act of 1792, established the U.S. Mint and created a decimal-based currency system with the dollar as the main unit, divided into 100 cents. It defined coins like gold eagles, silver dollars, and copper cents, setting their metal content and weights, and established a 15:1 gold-to-silver ratio for bimetallism. Coins were made legal tender, and counterfeiting was punishable by death. Later acts modified this system, but 1792 was foundational.
Now it makes sense. Trump is likely going to decouple the US from the fiat currency, or eliminate our taxes and the IRS which is why these tariffs take effect on the same day.
I'll be delightedly surprised if anything more happens besides tariffs.
Is 72 a number we are interested in? April 2 is day 72 after inauguration day.
Maybe also April 1 features, as it is the new financial year. But people would think if it was a joke, so April 2 is the next best day to 'start' fresh books.