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Kicking off the BIGGEST, most BEAUTIFUL trade talks. SIX countries a week, EIGHTEEN total! Some will make incredible DEALS, others will go home EMPTY-HANDED. Only the best get America’s business! VERY EXCITING! Stay tuned!!! trump-feed

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

6 nations enter!

1 nation leaves!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago

Beat me to it lol

[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 hours ago

Thailand, i had a great time in the hot tub, but the reduction of labor protections from "bare minimum" to "barest minimum" is not enough. Therefore, I am sorry but my rose goes to SLAVELAND.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago

Shouldn't it be on a daily rotation rather than weekly? By the time the two weeks in between have passed, the US policy will have changed like five times.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 hours ago

i have six beautiful countries standing before me, but only one can become America's next top trading partner trump-anguish

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

He should actually televise this

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 hours ago

Better then anything on Netiflix

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

tbh i would watch this show

has anyone ever done a reality tv game based on the diplomacy board game where the players each run different countries?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 hours ago

Tbh this is how most companies solve their problems but they use C O N S U L T AN T S

He’s finally running the country like a business!

[–] [email protected] 29 points 12 hours ago

China should invite all 18 to a competing conference at the same time.

China should launch the TPP without the US.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

hate to say it but Trump is not beating the great khan allegations, all nations of the world must bring him tribute

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

The Great Khan but all the conquest was done already

How very Amerikkkan

[–] [email protected] 24 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

I don't know why they haven't stumbled into the idea of tributary nations. Sure that's already indirectly a thing. But you can't tell me it doesn't appeal to Trump to demand protection money directly.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 hours ago

The tributary countries are all being accused of having trade surpluses against the US.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

every ambassador to the US is probably scrambling to order valuable gifts to personally bestow before these meetings

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

That would be absolutely hilarious if the US came crashing down because Trump got 47 Ronin'd.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

That's what NATO is and the whole point of letting Europe bear the weight of the war in Ukraine is to make them pay for America's war.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Sure that's already indirectly a thing

The point is not that the US isn't extracting value from their client state, the point is that current US leadership is venal enough that they would desire a direct extraction of species.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Fair, but in my mind if we can consider a tax credit a form of government spending, getting someone else to pay for something you were doing is basically getting them to pay you.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Basically

see there you go. Remember we are dealing with a ruling class who think getting industrial goods in return for an IOU is a rip off on behalf of the IOU writer. There is a layer of obfuscation between the money and the American government and that is why they're mad currently. I am saying it is odd that they have not discovered that they can just ask for money directly by means of threats.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 12 hours ago

Another Day another trump-dapper banger

[–] [email protected] 23 points 12 hours ago

This bachelor will stay single.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 12 hours ago

mom said it's my turn to negotiate with trump

[–] [email protected] 18 points 12 hours ago

Well it looks like Yanis was at least somewhat correct about Trump's plan to try to cause chaos then negotiate with all the other countries with the upper hand — although he was saying Trump would isolate the countries to negotiate 1 on 1.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

He saw a commercial for One-A-Day vitamins and thought "that sounds like a good pace"