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wow, a fascist cunt biting more than he could chew? gotta be the first time.
pussy.
There must be a universe where Trump became a train conductor. I wonder what that ride would be like and would it have equal amount of casualties.
Don't you mean in a nursing home, his daughters son and Melania realize he's more than they can handle, when he had thoughts of running for presidency, they stuck him a. Nursing home before he could try.
He would be in amtrack
And then after 90 days what happens? Because if today you order stuff from another continent to be shipped by ocean, there's a chance it will arrive after that date. Especially if everyone has the same idea of frontloading their warehouses before he changes idea again
He isn't going to wait 90days , he's too impatient, he will resume the tariffs as soon as he feels like it.
Yep, and then pause them claiming, like he did this time, that somehow magically every nation in the world managed to negotiate with him to his satisfaction within a couple of days....
Or claim that no one but China threatened retaliatory tariffs (and of course a lot of them did) and that's why he gave them a reprieve to reward them for not retaliating.
Or to claim that China is a bad actor because they imposed punitive tariffs and that's only something that bad actors do...
Now, I'm not an economist but it looks like orange pile was just testing how he could fuck around the economic beehive. I'm gonna get my money out after it recovers and a few days before the orange pile tries anything again. Probably I should move my retirement money overseas?
I'm looking around for other strategies.
Remember when flip-flopping was bad for a politician?
No, but this is the art of the deal™
(/s in case any dumbass is reading this. There is no art and he made no deal, except the deal with his criminal friend to do insider trading)
Flip-flopping in and of itself isn't bad.
What it is - is a symptom.
A symptom of being an absolute dumbass. Now that is what's bad.
If he weren't just doing this to profit off of market manipulation at all of our expenses I'd be adding this to the very short list of good things he did, including declassifying US endorsement of Syrian rebels and protecting rights to unionize (in Mexico...)
I understand balancing trade deficit is improtant, but the way to fix a mole on your feet is not by shooting it.
Idgaf about trade deficits, we're a trade surplus with SAE by 270%.
I just want to reduce imports from China. They've fucked around and now they need to find out.
Personally I'm siding with China he's going to hit the rest of us again in 3 months again. This is blatant stock manipulation in my opinion and he should be jailed for both that and treason.
China can respond by immediately n stop all shipments
You'll love your $2250 iPhone and you'll be happy
China raises tariffs to 204% tomorrow’s headline.
I'm excited for tree fiddy
So he's giving the other countries a 90 day reprieve to seek other trading partners? Ones that aren't dictated by a toddler who thinks random mood swings are the basis of a sensible foreign trade policy? Smart move, trump.
seems like he learned his negotiation skills from the scene in Blazing Saddles where the black sheriff points a gun to his own head. "Do what he says! Do what he says!"
Probably less. He could change his mind at any time.