he really, truly thinks that stopping trade with China entirely is good
he doesn’t care how much damage it does to the economy or how many businesses go under - he thinks that if Americans buy anything from China we are losing money so it should stop
there’s no twelve dimensional chess here
he doesn’t care how much damage it does to the economy or how many businesses go under - he thinks that if Americans buy anything from China we are losing money so it should stop
there’s no twelve dimensional chess here
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Aaron Rupar
Trump: "We already made a great deal. We're not doing business with China right now. We lost $1 trillion with China last year, so if you're not gonna do business with them, you're not gonna lose $1 trillion."
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this is exactly what they want or they'd stop him, they've had 3 months
correct explanation is not Hanlon's razor, but Occam's
Intimidation works, especially when the opposition is Schumer bitching like an old prospector and refusing to let any more passionate Dem take the reins.
He really doesn't notice that in this scenario that you now have a car.
He really is this stupid.
The reality: the trade was there because sellers and buyers agreed to it. Killing the trade will hurt both buyers and sellers.
What will happen when reality corrects his stupid wrong ideas?
We're about to see.
He actually thinks even though America has more money, other countries need to spend back as much as America spends or it's "lost"
When he says he wants to make America great again, he means the opposite.
People in power really think Trump is this genius economics guy that will magically bring back the 2019 economy, but with even less regulation and even lower taxes for the rich
ARE
FUCKED
Still gaslighting
Still believed
8647
https://bsky.app/profile/politicalbreakdown.bsky.social/post/3ljetj5hwi22c
https://washingtonspectator.org/project-russia-reveals-putins-playbook/
https://www.businessinsider.com/godfather-of-doge-peter-thiel-elon-musk-government-funding-cuts-2025-2
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/ayn-rand-was-right-sort-of?utm_medium=email&action=share&triedRedirect=true
(Ignore the end)
https://www.youtube.com/live/OEkgZtu_Q2Q?si=WGpcXuMnOJru5HLE
2) The Apprentice was a fun shtick that clearly too many people took for "reality" rather than absurdity.
Trump created that role (along with Robin Leech). So the NY press was hungry for it. Here was a guy they could
(The gap had already been met in entertainment - Liberace; and politics, Reagan, the evangelical preacher too) but other fields still had some decorum.
Half of the electorate are simply brainless. Don’t know how we come back from that.
An administration 50 years in the planning.
NOBODY saw this $h!t$#0w on the horizon?
Worst reality show EVER America. 😪
He said the good parts of the economy are his economy and the bad parts are Biden’s economy. He will package any combination of words that get him the result he wants.
Trump has effectively removed the US as the center of global trade and handed the reigns to China.
Him LIED?
SHOCKER!
Trump just negotiated with himself publicly China and China's tariffs that Trump put on China 🤔🤔🤔
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/09/business/china-trade-negotiations
He's a friggin' moron. Plain and simple.
-You need to cut spending.
-But then our service will suffer and we'll lose business.
-That's okay once your income and outgoings are both zero then your books will be forever perfectly balanced.
Honestly, he couldn't possibly understand it. He's too stupid, too full of himself and too old to ever fully grasp the consequences of his actions. And it's only getting worse.
He’s a goddamn HYPOCRITE.
I looked up Ryobi & Milwaukee tools.
Ryobi is a subsidiary of Techtronic Industries (TTI), a Hong Kong-based company that also manufactures other brands like Ridgid & Milwaukee Tool
made primarily in China, plus Vietnam, Mexico, and Germany.
for decades he refused to pay contractors who worked on his properties
for him not ripping off the other guy makes you a sucker, even when you’re just paying a fair price for goods/services rendered
I think they’re in for a shock when shortages hit and Q2 data comes in, but it’s just…
I don’t understand what the market is expecting to happen
It used to be people made money trading the stocks - and they still do.
Now more money is made by people betting stocks will fall...so Trump repeatedly sabotaging the markets is making them mega rich.
They love it.
Disaster EMPOWERS these people.
Only issue is if it crashes hard enough, the
It's no good making a $bn when you find out that actually only buys you a 18-pack of toilet paper because you hyperinflationed the economy forcing the face of stocks in the toilet and they've drowned.
He's rubber stamping Project 2025 executive orders not even knowing he's starting the next Civil War
He’s a puppet.
- "Why do you have these views [on trade]?"
- "I just do," Trump reportedly replied. "I've had these views for 30 years."
https://reason.com/2018/09/05/trump-scribbled-trade-is-bad-woodward/
The only card he holds is the ability to boycott the world.
He doesn't hold any cards to force the world to submit to submit to his whims.
https://www.voanews.com/a/covid-19-pandemic_trump-if-we-stop-testing-wed-have-fewer-cases/6191165.html
“You don’t know anyone as stupid as Donald Trump. You just don't.”