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- trump_watch@lemm.ee
Donald Trump has continually insisted that deals over his tariffs are coming.
Donald Trump claimed Tuesday that the U.S. doesn’t “have to sign” any trade deals, inadvertently admitting that his administration hasn’t made any progress during the 90-day pause on his disastrous tariffs.
During a tense meeting to discuss tariffs with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, the president attempted to move the goal posts on actually completing any agreements with foreign countries.
“Everyone says, ‘When, when, when, are you going to sign deals?’ We don’t have to sign deals!” Trump said.
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“We don’t have to sign deals. They have to sign deals with us. They want a piece of our market, we don’t want a piece of their market. We don’t care about their market. They want a piece of our market,” Trump rambled.
“Trump rambled” is the best attribution for trump quotes.
‘We don’t care about their market’ is such a self indictment of his understanding of global trade.
Poor soybean farmers hearing that when maybe 40% of their crop ends up in Chyyy-nah
Your base mighttt care about their market lil bro
He’ll just distribute them largess from the public coffer. He doesn’t give a shit. Let them watch gladiators while Rome burns.
To be fair, the bread is still a problem, but he’s saving a bundle on the circus
In that situation I think the crowds haven’t noticed the lions are about to jump the fence and the legions have closed the gates.
also like… literally the reason for tariffs: because people want international goods and nobody wants yours
If we don’t care about their market, why are we trying to balance trade?
Trump doesn’t. He just wants vassal states.
He’s not that smart
You don’t need to be smart to understand power.
You have to be hold on to it.
Because his economic thinking is less advanced than David Ricardo’s, and Ricardo died 200 years ago. Ricardo showed the imbecility of attempting to have a pairwise balance of trade for every trading partner, in simple terms, though probably not simple enough for Trump to understand, even if he attempted to learn.
As an economist recently observed, my balance of trade with my barber is negative: so what?
Because Trump doesn’t understand one inch of the global economy.
This is what happens when you mainline American Exceptionalism for 80 years - It rots your brain.
“Blithered” might be slightly more correct.
‘Groaned’ gets my vote.
I still can’t fully wrap my head around just how stupid he is. It surprises me, every time.
That, and the sheer stupidity of the morons who voted for him.
Have you considered eating enough raw bushmeat that you get a brain worm?
How many MAGA folks will ever see this? Probably very few. And most of those few will dismiss it without a second thought.
He wanted to nuke a hurricane and americans still voted for him.
Hey now, he eventually back pedaled and successfully redirected the hurricane by using just a sharpie.
I wish he did so people would realize how much of an idiot he is. But then again, this is Maga.
Amazed he didn’t try and nuke COVID-19.
Well, we all know how incapable Trump is regarding business and economy. Basically any halfway professional diplomat or trade official will basically run him into the next wall, head first.
China is only the first of many countries where he will learn that he is playing with adults for the first time. These are not random bootlicking apprentices he can fire at a whim.
If we could get someone Trump listens to saying that the United States is falling behind Norway in dilithium mining, and state it confidently, he would 100% be demanding Norway’s dilithium operations the next day.
We should find a way to do this.
. . .someone Trump listens to. . .
Maybe fox news?
You could get on OAN and likely have the same exposure
Holding all the cards but his casinos are gone.
Made deal with 200 nations? Yeah, imagiNations.
Wakanda, Narnia, Atlantis, Mordor, New Crobuzon, Dis, Sodom & Gomora, flavortown, that isle where all gay man live, the underworld and belgium.
What’s that, Lassie?
All he’s done is ruin everything and make the world worse for everybody?
He’s crashing the US economy?
He’s doing hundreds of years worth of damage to the country?
Millions of innocent people’s lives are ruined?
Millions of innocent people outside of the country will probably needlessly die because of him?
What’s that, Lassie?
Huh? It almost sounds French.
Oh, guillotine.
GOOD DOG!
Trump is full of shit. As usual.
He is a pile of shit in a trench-coat
I’m really hoping that after enough people yell at him about how much money they are losing, he will just drop the tariffs and wonder off to the next disaster.
You forgot the part where he declares victory and claims he saved us from the disaster that he himself made.
And 70 million+ American voters believe it.
oh you mean Donald Trump is full of shit like always?
"We don’t have to sign deals!” Trump said.
Why even bother signing a deal that everyone knows you’re going to break
He also brought in 9, maybe even 10 trillion dollars to the US! No other president has even brought in 1 trillion! Did you know that?
I really wish the camera didn’t keep focusing on Trump, I wanted to see Carney’s reactions throughout.
I guess leaders are too busy kissing his ass?
most of the countries right now are already working around the tariffs, once its done , if trump decides to rescind all the tariffs, most of it wont come back every, or at leas it will be so minimal that it wont affect anything.
