Market manipulation for profit. The inside info given to his billionaire buddies is that proverbial goose with golden eggs. And each time he waffles on tariffs, the goose strains and grunts and out pops another. Duh. This works with markets going up or down. You can't lose.
Further he proved the “4-D chess-playing stable genius”doesn’t understand how math or percentages work. He said he’s increasing tariffs by 25%.
That would be a 100% increase Senior TACO. 🌮
Trump is a complete lunatic. He's setting tariffs based just on a whim. He doesn't know or care about the consequences. The real incompetents are the GOP in Congress, who are letting him do this.
In DT's last term, he put tariffs on steel. US steel production increased. Good, right?
NO!
Because US makers who used steel could no longer buy cheaper imported steel, so they produced LESS product.
In fact, the increase in steel production was more than offset by the loss of product manufacturing.
nah thats Monday when car producer share prices fall and the trump admin insiders cash in on their short positions , buy the shares back at the new low price and he uturns putting the price up again.
Trump just doubled steel tariffs to 50%—because nothing says “help the working class” like jacking up prices and triggering trade wars. This isn’t strategy, it’s economic arson with a spray tan. He’s burning the factory to pose with the ashes. SAD!
How much thought did he put into this policy you ask? Well it went like this ' hmm gotta do my show at a steel plant , what would they cheer most for? '
Okay @mark-carney.bsky.social time to close the #Canadian #border to #USA for a week n cut the off from ALL #criticalminerals. Start fighting back instead of rolling over!
So he’s tariffing the company that just took over US Steel.
Who’s going to buy the steel products taking Medicaid and ACA insurance subsidies away and increase in tariffs and income taxes from Rep big bill we can’t afford crap good luck
JFC we have a petulant child as president, now he’s mad people are calling him what he is a fucking chicken, so now his stupid ass well does something stupid, MF can’t drop soon enough
He's taking that one additional opportunity for market manipulation before he is (hopefully) shut down on June 9. Give him an inch and he will take a mile. Stupid Appeals Court decision.
How can he possibly see himself as a great businessman, when he constantly makes the wrong decisions (also) about tariffs?
He tries to run America as a huge company - tries to negotiate everything into a deal - and severely lacks all kinds of world perspective.
Trump certainly isn’t a great
His justification was plain old protectionism: tariffing imported steel protect the U.S. steel industry. Somehow it will magically make US steel plants sprout like wildflowers and produce tons of finished steel every second of the day.
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Can we just end this charade and take away his toy for good? We're already 75% there.
#TACOMAN
Thanks a lot 2 Dolls Donnie. It’s 2 years before DOMESTIC steel companies can gear up to replace foreign sources
There are only 115,000 US steel jobs
Your killing of the green energy program passed by Biden will kill 200,000+ jobs in 12 mos
(I am so glad I am not in purchasing or receiving right now. How on earth do they know what to charge on any given day?)
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/federal-court-trump-power-impose-tariffs-unilaterally/story?id=122290881
I don't agree with putting everything back while it's pending, but I'm not the judge...
There is no plan and our only hope is that someone tapes his mouth shut
That would be a 100% increase Senior TACO. 🌮
Who couldn’t predict this?🙃
knows that.
They want tariffs, then their manufacturers should only be able to sell domestically.
US manufacturers: don’t try to sell stuff to the rest of the world.
NO!
Because US makers who used steel could no longer buy cheaper imported steel, so they produced LESS product.
In fact, the increase in steel production was more than offset by the loss of product manufacturing.
You know what time it is folks...
and that cars/car parts aren’t already being $ spiked by tariffs.
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its fine guys you can buy our cars from the UK at a bargain rate of only 10% tariff
Who’s going to buy the steel products taking Medicaid and ACA insurance subsidies away and increase in tariffs and income taxes from Rep big bill we can’t afford crap good luck
It's Friday
Check back in a couple of days
One guy?
(And time to manipulate the stock market time!!)
Go, Steelers!
He tries to run America as a huge company - tries to negotiate everything into a deal - and severely lacks all kinds of world perspective.
Trump certainly isn’t a great
What phony excuse did he give for doing this?
What a shitshow
He’s such a fool. A dangerous fool
https://www.nahb.org/blog/2025/02/trump-tariffs-will-drive-up-housing-costs