In a long monologue in the Oval Office beside Canadian PM Mark Carney this afternoon, the President appears to say the trade "deals" his team are working on are not deals in the traditional sense, as they will not have to be signed.
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The "deal" will be naming the "price that people are going to have to pay to shop in the United States."
The clinical terms for his deteriorating mental state use too many characters, so nuts will have to suffice.
It doesn't matter how much pencils cost if your bank account is empty.
you only get one guess.
Honestly, every economic step he's taking lands heavily on a rake
As long as he gets a bribe, he doesn't care what happens to USA.
It's a grift, like Trump steaks.
But they won't.
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Trump is incapable of understanding the Middle Class, much less the impoverished. The USA is not a luxury Store for the Rich. It is a country of hard-working people who earn their money, didn't grow up rich and entitled, and learned that luxurious consumption does not buy happiness.
These countries aren't "shopping" in the United States.
They are selling to the people in the US.
Americans are the ones doing the "shopping."
but he obviously hasn't bothered reading the definition the dictionary provides, which isn't "a price countries pay to shop in another country."
No thanks.
If Trump wants to treat the US Market as some “outdoor shopping mall”, we can take our business elsewhere. Maybe the US does not need us.
Time will tell.
Canada can and will form other overseas partnerships based upon mutual respect.
Either way, I think the relationship, trust and reliance we have on the US has come to an end.
It’s a parting of ways…rip it off like a Band-aid.
Is
So
Stupid.
Like. I know they exist, but how long is this exclusive luxury goods list?
And how many of those "luxury goods" are necessities?
Dude's so far removed from life here, as we are United States of WalMart.
no thanks
Details.
we know how THAT works.
On a scale of one to "North Korean soldier on the Ukraine front lines" . . .
I think he is going to find the world thinks him quite lacking.
America, will this be his seventh or eighth bankruptcy?
Drink!
In a dance hall?
Crude oil
Beef
Pork
Soybeans
So if Trumps “we don’t care you don’t have to shop”…..attitude is that….then he’s going to see a big downturn in GDP Q2
China has STOPPED selling
Raw minerals
He can conceive of no collaborative possibilities in any context. Everything is grift and bribe.
i.e. bribe me to lower the tariffs for imports from your country?
God my brain hates me for trying to make sense of this nonsense
By naming a "price" for countries to pay to "shop" in the US, it appears he wants some tariff to remain in place, and possibly with *everyone*
Jesus fucking Christ. No matter how much you polish them, the brain turds his mouth craps out will never turn into diamonds.
Does he mean that other countries will "shop" the US market, and the pay the tariff? Is he just repeating the AI derived poster of stupidly calculated tariffs?
Why?
He can’t remember what he said yesterday, rambles incoherently. Talks about the US “selling” but tariffs are taxes on incoming products
He has never been particularly bright. Now he is clearly losing his facilities
What could go wrong?
Dropping demand, loss of import, wholesale, and retail jobs leading to falling GDP? Retaliatory tariffs? Spiraling recession?
Are you sure he's not just a fucking idiot? That's my read.
Money to be paid personally to him, not the government of the U.S.
Don't over think this.
It's either a simple shakedown or he can't understand the simplest aspect of international trade...
(It's actually both)
Congress, stop this madness!
Serious question.
If countries are
Shopping
Here?
GTFO dumpy!
Stop sanewashing this Trump's incoherent idiocy.
Here is your answer.
Akin to acquiring a spot at the farmers' market.
In this case, the condition is that purchasers of your goods will pay a tax.
Has he convinced himself that it's the other countries that pay the tax?? Or he's confused himself?
Like buying them
He mentioned Canada again...
He doesn't understand anything.
The "deals" he wants are essentially "agree to buy more of our stuff, and until you do the tariffs remain"
that's it.
We would appreciate the truth.
This is more Stalinist or Maoist than anything Democrats have ever proposed.
Optimism? Day traders?
Neither can be trusted. Both are run by dictators.
He doesn't honor anything he has signed.
If he did we wouldn't be dealing with tariffs now.
Case in point, USMCA.
Wear Black. Stand With Your Back Turned Against the FELON's Parade. Local Red State Magat Parades, too. NonViolent Protest!
Well then I’ll get some really nice black styling
Where are the Republicans in the House and Senate?
I'm tired of a doddering old man being President. Even Biden was more competent than Trump is.
I just said it like that because the last time I said Biden was great, I was smacked down so hard that I was hesitant to repeat the experience.
This is all performative bullshit.
Wharton must be so proud.
#canpoli #cdnpoli
He's just signed the death warrant for our country.
The streets need to be filled yesterday. This cannot go on. How is this happening?!?
He’s just a blowhard. Don’t try to read anything coherent into any of his ramblings.
You can just HEAR it when he tries to regurgitate it to the media or rally crowds!
So he is talking about EXPORT TARRIFS? Like, make American stuff more expensive for the outside world to buy?
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
These chuckleheads…
Reluctantly it could be paid to the US treasury but I think he's imagining it going into his own pocket.
That’s what this is about, self-enrichment and aggrandizement.
With whom, on what, given the Oompa Loompa changes his mind every three minutes.
He's just broadcasting how much his "take charge" attitude is weak, and has failed.
Sometimes it could be a new Trump hotel, or maybe a haul of gold knick knacks for the WH, or expand a border, taking custody of undesirable people presently in the US, rare earth minerals, or I will even accept cryptocurrency or💰to my library.
The US isn’t a mall!
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Setting a price does not make a deal.
As always, Trump is delusional.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/25/trump-200-trade-deals-time-interview-trade-war-tariffs-00309294
The stupid analogy and complete incomprehension of America's demand side economics are just to throw you off the scent of HIS deal.
https://bsky.app/profile/shoutingboy.bsky.social/post/3lnsmzyx4u22y
But definite fiction if he said two weeks.
#America becomes #Cuba. Isolated, And putting mower engines in our cars to keep them running.
There is no thought from Trump.
There's just a constant buzz of emptiness between his two ears.
https://bsky.app/profile/juddlegum.bsky.social/post/3lojf3hdpss27
This kind of filling in the blanks for him (cause the alternative is scary) has been called sanewashing. It doesn’t just apply to his rally rambling but everything he says.
That’s the key to cracking his tariff formula.
Oh yeah… Our movies!
Only no one will want to see a movie filmed in America, starring Americans, produced by Americans, telling stories about Americans, ever… EVER again.
I'm no economologist, but that's entirely back-assward. His tariffs are a price U.S. citizens pay in order to shop for goods from other countries!
Trumpski here wants payment for access to the US market. A cost (tariff in his mind) that a foreign state would pay the US e.g. EU to be able to sell into US has to pay USD5bn.
Russia has thoughts on this:
I was in China in 82. Made friends with a tour guide, who criticized Mao- but I heard him whisper under his breath, “Chairman Mao guards my heart.”
Everyone in the country, male and female alike, wore Mao suits.
They’ll “pay” a “price” to “shop” in America.
He’s letting us know countries will pay him. Directly or indirectly through his properties or his crypto currency scam.
This is the most egregious scandal in our nation’s history!
Presumably, in many cases, with a place called 'Elsewhere'.
After all, if there's an easier alternative that fills the same purpose with the same properties you'll buy that one won't you.
Should be great for the Far East
😒
Big surprise LOL
Instead, his ego & dementia run the 💩 show monologue. 😑
The man is certifiable.
It now is a liquid sludge mixed with coke zero, Adderall and other toxins.
He’s a fruit cake, baloney, nut job, two short planks and crap mixed in a blender!
Fucking MAGA.
He has absolutely no idea what he's doing, how trade deals work, or how to engage with leaders of other countries.
He is just an idiot in a suit, flailing around, way out of his depth, with a mouth that just won't stop flapping.
He is evil, irresponsible, irrational, racist, misogynistic, cruel, but he is not an idiot.
He wants an empire.
All of them are kissing the ring and bending their knees to get more money. USA, its citizens, democracy, freedom and justice be damned.
We’re so screwed.
Coffee
Chocolate
Champagne
Bananas
Mangoes
Electronics
Textiles
Nuts
35% of vegetables
Spices
I thought barriers to foreign markets were what started this whole thing?
He is just babbling out of his ass.
He is blurting out contradictory rationales and updates on a daily basis.
His department store example is a 4 year old’s depiction of global trade.
That's why he says there's nothing to sign. Just figure out how to make him happy and the tariff disappears.
That's the deal.