And now:
Trump clarifies some of the tariffs were actually 245% for some unknown reason
this post was submitted on 15 Apr 2025
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Nobody knows what's going on.
Least of all Trump
Small brain think smart. Fat man think tough. Ignorance knows no bounds when others pay the price of bad decisions.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Trump never dropped tariffs on China, did he?
No they didn't. This is in reference to the announced exceptions for electronics like phones, which is a pretty big category. That's effectively dropping tariffs on a big chunk. That announcement was then unannounced by trump but who knows. The general perception is that trump wants tariffs but will fold when the economy catches fire and wants China to make a big deal with him so he can claim victory.
Depends on what you mean by drop. Is rolling back dropping? Is making exemptions dropping? Because both of those things have been done lol
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His fanboys will praise his indecisiveness and claim it a victory regardless of the outcome
🤔 it's almost like tarrifs were a bad idea.
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Extortionist fails
The Americans are panicking over China, they have no idea what to do and are just making knee-jerk responses pretending they are doing something and looking 'tough' in the eyes of Americans. Yet what exactly can they do to a country that has 3 trillion US dollars in 'spare change' of your currency and holds US$759 billion in your treasury bills?
The fact is, just like the financial meltdown a while back, China will just use this opportunity to buy up even MORE of American manufacturing, invest in building more US manufacturing plants (using American slave labor wage workers) and soon the US will be nothing more than a branch plant country for Chinese corporations, all profits returning back to China.
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