Does it feel like Trump just learned the word "tariff" a couple weeks ago or is that just me?
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No he definitely learned it years ago, but he’s a simple boy, he can’t hold too many concepts in his head. It’s mostly just rape, fraud, and now tariffs
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Did you really just forget his entire first presidency?
I try hard to.
We all do. I had hoped not to read some completely insane headline each day for four years, but here we go again.
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It also feels like he means his „100% tariff“ takes all the money.
Let's keep it that way. Imagine if he discovers one day he could go over 100%.
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You must’ve missed last term
'Trade wars are easy to win'
“If you step out of line, so help me, I will TANK MY OWN ECONOMY!”
Ngl, hes an accelerationists wet dream
I’m sure this will help drive BRICS closer together as they feel attacked by America. Allowing Russia to poach powerful allies away from the US.
Trump must be Putins greatest dream.
Yeah, Trump ending the dollar as the reserve currency would be a fitting legacy.
Yeah it would be extremely funny (and probably bad) if he accidentally own-goal'ed this.
Trump 110% still believes that other countries pay these tariffs.
He believes they can't raise their own tariffs in turn. That's the real danger here. Not Americans paying double for some knock off plastic widget on Temu, but American exporters running into an equivalent tariff wall trying to import cars and computers and pork shoulders into China.
He's taking a guillotine to American global logistics
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Bro is undermining the dollar himself.
Remember how China's CCP keeps trying to have its way by using threats to bully other nations into submission and all it does is rally everyone against them instead? Watch the world turn its back to the US even faster now.
Yup. The first Trump presidency is why North Korea is blowing up roads and sending weapons and military units to Russia. Just read the open letter Kim Jong-Un sent to Trump after their Infamous meeting. Kim essentially called Trump a lier and that Kim wouldn't be made the fool again. Trump spent less than 12 hours with Kim and destroyed any possibility of reunification of Korea. Dude is a cancer
What the world must learn is that, in the American system, the word of a sitting president or from his secretaries are worth next to nothing in the medium to long term (ie beyond 8 years) until it passes congress and becomes law. I would say the world is a sucker for believing that promises made by the executive would stick beyond their own terms
That's the plan.
Man’s really out here acting like tariffs are a cheat to fix everything. This whole move screams “short term flex, long term mess.” BRICS isn’t gonna back down just because Trump said so on Truth Social.
It's going to be fun when americans understands this.
Americans have an amazing capacity to not understand things for centuries after the fact. Some of them are still in denial about why the civil war happened.
When the consequences of Trump's tariffs become clear, they'll just blame the closest Democrat.
Something I think Trump is great at is pointing at other factors for why things would be bad. For instance he will point to the imigration and other thing instead of his own actions. I fucking hate this guy but I have to admit he is good at what he is doing and that is lying.
Mostly because even the mainstream media will never call him out on it. There's never been a headline like 'Trump lies about ___', despite him constantly, knowingly lying.
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Don't bet your savings on that, he did the same bullying moves last time and look where we are now.
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Man the rest of the world should just cut the US out of trading completely and become more self sufficient. This shit is way beyond ridiculous.
The thing is, they have no real reason to care about the threat of a tariff. It makes domestic US prices increase. For a lot of things, there isn't the ability to start making it domestically in a timely fashion, so either demand drops for a bit or if it's something vital, then the producer never even notices.
It's threatening the shoe store by waving a chainsaw at your legs. Sure they'll have some reduced sales, but you're mostly hurting yourself.
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Ooh! Donny boy found a new hammer. Hitting anything now
Like a 7yo who has learned that people can be sued.
"I'll TARIFF YOU!"
Only 100%? How about billion bazillion percent instead Donald? And make them buy you a pony too while you're at it, that'll show'em!
For someone who isn't Putin's puppet he does and says a lot of stuff that makes him look like Putin's puppet. If it quacks like a duck....
Oh no, these countries wanna be less dependent on the US? Better try and bully them with what little leverage we got left, great plan. Honestly, if he actually does it and it screws over the economy, maybe people will finally wake up and do something about him.
Even though it would affect me as an American citizen, I wonder what will happen if all countries decided to sanction the U.S.? Presumbly to rebuke a near-fascist leader coming to power. How many countries would actually do it is another question.
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