This just proves that US tariff policies are unstable.
Why would any company move production to US based on tariff then? Imagine spending money to move a factory from China to America, and the next month tariffs flip flop and your competitor laughs at you all the way to the back counting earnings from their Chinese imports.
Dems just need to say that their candidates will drop all new tariffs like this. Which is goofy (repubs pro-tariff, dems anti), but it incentivizes them to not go along with any of this, medium/long term
Whatever Democrats say, it will just contribute to uncertainty which is what the comment you replied to was all about.
Coward. And now he’s going to tell everyone what a great deal maker he is - it only cost the world $12 B or so.
The fact that people defend this action is appalling.
The stock market is dancing to Trump’s rhythm like a puppet. Euphoric gains like nothing meaningful was happening and the economic environment was expected to be predictable and favorable for the most part…
Statesmanship involves a steady hand, consistency in language and decision.
Trump is fighting against himself, and he is losing.
When I played Pokemon as a kid, I would get so mad when my Pokemon ‘hurt itself in confusion’. I thought, how the hell is that even possible. But now I see it first hand…
This is blatant market manipulation, he and his cohort are laughing their asses off getting richer than ever
Until someone puts a bullet through their face.
Honestly, they seem too stupid to have even that much of a plan.
He couldn’t handle china retaliations so had to pause tariffs elsewhere, so he can focus on china. Now he is forcing Americans to pay 125% tax on china imports.
I think some of you guys are reading way too much into this.
Trump is having a dick measuring contest while Xi is letting him fuck himself.
We rely on China more than they rely on us. Think about how obsessed we are with low prices. Trade with China brings our average prices on goods way down. China also trades with the rest of the world, and they know they can weather a trade war with the US.
China is the next world leader unless the West can somehow right the ship. WW3 is going to be about who becomes the next Economy and de-facto world leader.
For anyone who needs to hear it: Authoritarian states do not think like people, they think like empires. If you were an empire, would you take advantage of the current climate?
Disclaimer: Both China and the US are authoritarian states, strictly speaking. But the State is not unified under Trump currently, so we’re seeing a combination of thinking like a state and thinking like a person coming from the US, depending on the source.
It’s about pulling money from the market(s) to his pockets. If the turd was in debt before, now he’s (getting) rich. He is also clearly immune to any and all crimes.
So if the other day was liberation day, then today is…?
Capitulation Day
Profit like a motherfucker day.
You think he doesn’t have someone buying the stocks he tanked just before his announcement.
Tariffs that change wildly from one day to another it’s something that companies really love. Because goods get teleported between countries and you can predict easily what rate you are going to get
So he imposed them on everyone to see who would retaliate the hardest and when China did he decided that ok got a target and doubled down even harder. He used it as bait to see who would be the most pissed. Someone please shoot him, cut off his head, hang his corpse from the torch of the statue of liberty.
No one had time. China’s tariffs were announced earlier, but the EU and other blocs would have undoubtedly followed (and might still follow with 10%), but they freaking think it through over at least a week like a normal government.
Plus it allows them to surgically implement their tariffs. They are aiming them at his support base to hurt them the most hoping to drive a stake into the heart of the vampire.
I think it’s too late and those people are fucking brain dead, but at least they are trying something.
So he imposed them on everyone to see who would retaliate the hardest and when China did he decided that ok got a target and doubled down even harder.
This book “See What You Made Me Do: The Dangers of Domestic Abuse That We Ignore, Explain Away, or Refuse to See” is in the Self-Help section, but surely it belongs in the Politics section instead.
No, China was always the target. Other countries were basically targeted proportionally to their manufacturing bases.
It’s about manufacturing (which Trump wants to return to America).
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
wow, a fascist cunt biting more than he could chew? gotta be the first time.
pussy.
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
Better move the ships quickly, full speed, and pray there isn’t another Ever Given
He isn’t going to wait 90days , he’s too impatient, he will resume the tariffs as soon as he feels like it.
And its going down again. This is like rollercoaster tycoon irl
“I want to get off Mr Bones’ Wild Ride”
