‘A Weapon of Brass Destruction’: Trump Wants Trumpets Labeled a National Security Threat, But the Internet Is Blowing Its Own Horn Over the Absurdity

Trumpets, trombones, tubas and French horns have suddenly landed in the middle of a national-security trade fight alongside industrial products, leaving critics to question how school band instruments became a threat to the United States. For now, the trumpets remain legal, the tubas are still playing, and no tariff has taken effect. But the debate over whether they belong in a national-security fight is already making plenty of noise. The proposed 25% tariff is part of President Donald Trump’s broader effort to use national security as a justification for expanding tariffs on products made with metals such as copper, aluminum…