Will the countries reciprocate. This indecisive effort on 🍊🤡💩 causing a great deal of pessimistem in the markets. He will eventually cause another great recession or worse. Stagflation is imminent
He didn't think everyone would retaliate against him. I love this. Keep hurting us, and maybe everyone will wake TF up. I prepared for this. I am good. Canada, Mexico, and Europe, tariff TF away. I'm enjoying this....
So if you are an import agent, working to get goods through customs, how in the hell do you verify if this or that component is going to the auto industry or not? 25% or zero? Or if this sheet of aluminum is going to make an F150 or a Coke can? Its impossible! And open to fraud!
He has no idea what he is doing. He has no idea what the consequences are because he will listen to no one and no one will do any research on history. They don’t believe in reading. Idiots. All of them.
I mean with tariffs he doesn’t know how they work. He knows how to manipulate the stock market for sure and he does it quite well. I told hubby this is all bout the stock market.
No, it’s because Trump doesn’t know what he is doing. He is playing Russian roulette with our economy. He more than likely received a few angry phone calls from his billionaire friends who would lose a lot of money with tariffs on cars.
Jim Cramer on CNBC saved GM and Ford this AM. He said these tariffs make zero sense unless someone is sacrificed and GM and Ford are what Trump was willing to kill. He was mostly worried about share holders but the message got out. Within hrs.Trump walked back his tariffs. He's stupid and spineless
The moron is fucking with Americans and they are letting him! This Canadian is done, sorry, not shopping, travel, consuming US … 90% out (dam Apple keeps me in a bit)!
Shoot first, ask questions later. Then retreats when he understands the chaos he’s caused. That is one hell of an irresponsible and incompetent way to run a country.
As I've seen it put by others, he's not playing 4d chess, or chess, or checkers, or even tik tac toe, he's just eating the game pieces or throwing them across the room like a belligerent toddler.
Time to build an off-ramp that he can call a win. The stupidity of the tariffs is going to be proven over and over as the representatives of each industry come howling to Trump because he's destroying them. Farmers next, I'd think with spring coming. Then, anyone that needs aluminum.
Note who's getting a tariff exemption, large corporate welfare queens only. No small businesses. Just like repugnikkkons, he's extending breaks to corporate oligarchs. There's a Philly candy store owned by a Mex-American family. Their products are made in Mexico. They're not getting an exemption.
Oh sad. Americans were so eager to pay more for a car. We don’t have great mass transit so we need those cars and really want to be patriotic and pay more for them. Oh wait 🤔
Buying the dip due to market manipulations is just legal now, I guess. Screw all those regular ppl who rely on their 401(k)s for retirement, of course 🤷♂️
What the freaking difference is ONE MONTH supposed to make? The whole tariff business is both insane and inane, and delaying it for cars for One Whole Month is just emphasizing how asinine he -- and his tariffs -- are.
Well you're not wrong! I guess I was naively hoping for something more optimistic than that. Like consequences for the orange clown and not all of us. But I see the absurdity of what I just typed.
With any hope at all he will lose everything he has.If he causes his rich greedy buddies to lose their money he will have no backing and fall from his thrown.I hope he hits every step on the way when he is thrown from our Whitehouse Either way we will feel the pain but hopefully his is unrecoverable
Like EVERYTHING else. He is treating his authority as if he is a contestant on his piece of shit show "The Apprentice". He is playing president and has complete disregard for how all of what he does affects MILLIONS of people.
He's finding out, after the fact, just how much damage his tariffs could do to Americans. Next, it will be
agricultural products because someone will explain fertilizer to him. The steel and aluminum tariffs he talks about are going to be a case of shooting yourself in both feet.
If he takes away all government spending, he can bestow "favors" on people who flatter and bribe.
The same with granting exceptions to a punitive policy.
Now the automakers owe a personal favor to "King Shitzizpants".
And he has probably seen the figures in the Atlanta, Fed, and the stock market fluctuations. He does listen when it’s negative on him, which is why we all have to do more to resist.
I imagine a farmers bailout will happen, again, so basically he’s easing the pain on red states while blue states deal with the consequences of his bungled trade policies. Crony capitalism.
His tariff play games cause stock to fall, his rich buddies buy it up at rock bottom prices, and then he cancels tariffs which cause it bounce back making his buddies more money.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford claimed our auto plants would shut down in a week if the tariffs took effect, which seems pretty plausible.
It would suck for a lot of us here in Michigan, though; I'm surprised Trump is delaying it, since I thought that brutality to us was part of why he's doing this. 🤷♀️
He was watching Fox News yesterday when they did a report on the tariff impact at a car dealership. It raised the price of a Ford 150 to $100,000. Ever the used car salesman, Trump realized this was bad for business.
Oh he knows exactly what he is doing his rich friends sold stock, tarrif on, stocks drop, rich friends buy stock, tarrif off, stick rise, rich friends sells stocks
Wonder why?
In 2023, Canada accounted for about 12% of auto parts imported into the United States, or $16.1 billion. Mexico was the largest source of imported auto parts, accounting for 47% of the total in 2023. Lose 59% of those auto parts wouldn’t hurt us more than it would hurt them..
Whoever gives him money can rewrite the rules. He's completely transactional. Remember when he told the oil companies to give him a billion dollars and he'd get rid of climate laws? I have a long memory for this shit.
He is behaving Exactly the same way he did in whatever privileged elementary school he went to, where the teachers were afraid of losing their jobs if they didn’t let him do whatever he wanted and get away with it, including bullying all the other kids And teachers.
He is hoping Canada caves! It will be a -50 and a Snowy Blizzard in the middle of the Sahara Desert on July 4th before any Canadian caves to Convicted Felon wanna be Dictator !
Indeed. That's why he always had rallies with Air Force 1 or the helicopter behind him. Because only HE can do that, and he loves to jerk off his ego that way.
He tells his billionaire buddies what he's going to do ahead of time. Stock market falls, they buy low, stock goes up, they make $$. It's an oligarchical game to them.
He and his friends, who he is telling ahead of time, are cashing in by buying stocks at lows when he announces tariffs, then selling after he announces "pauses".
Assume that he is going to implement the tariffs. He started already... and letting off the gas peddle a little is not stopping... it means he has not withdrawn the tariffs. I stand with Canada and their position of "All, or nothing at all.".
Rumour has it he may carve out exceptions for farming products too (equipment, growing supplies like potash, etc), because that’s a big chunk of his base right there.
From a news report yesterday they were preparing a legal challenge against the clause he’s using to input tariffs- and he would lose. He’s buying time hoping we’ll fold. He doesn’t know Canadians.
His people want us all 2think he's fine+it's just part of his schtick.We, the normal people of earth see that he is plainly very mentally ill+until/unless someone does an intervention,he is a risk 2himself and others. So far, he's just hurt the rest of us, so we can only wait until he self harms.
Ya know what’s sad is WE’RE the ones saying anything about it. The everyday normal person on Bluesky can easily see the market manipulation happening in broad daylight and yet, once again, elected officials do nothing but shake their cane at it and whine.
He is also trying to increase consumer spending for a month!! He wants peeps to rush out and purchase a car so he can do better in the polls.
Once a narcissist always a narcissist,
Sounds like those carmakers have expedited access to him. 🤔 So it’s ok to not make their businesses suffer for nonsense economic policy but it’s ok for other industries to be negatively impacted. Validates why I won’t be buying a North American car with my next purchase.
Too bad, so sad.
Over 80% of Canadians have stopped buying American. It doesn't matter if he drops the tariffs tomorrow morning, it's too late, we're done with the betrayal and uncertainty.
What was it that nice black lady used to say?
"We're not going back."
Yeah, that.
Canada’s 1st round of retaliatory tariffs does not impact the auto industry. Here is the list of surtax tariff items upon entry into Canada. The next round is in 3 weeks.
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Dah?
🚬😎
Little Tariffs!
Big Tariffs!
No Tariffs!
Repeat…
Also,he is just making this up as he goes along.
*Bashed Fat Donnie against the wall*
Now listen Fat Donnie and listen good you stupid fucking wringled dust-bin......
Gawd I DESPISE him. 🤬
The best part is, he thought he could tariff and we'd all roll over because he's the master country.
We kicked back so hard, he was saying "shit, did I screw this up". Now he's trying to figure out how to back down without losing face.
Clown in Chief
agricultural products because someone will explain fertilizer to him. The steel and aluminum tariffs he talks about are going to be a case of shooting yourself in both feet.
https://bsky.app/profile/darthfos.bsky.social/post/3ljnol4kpu22p
The same with granting exceptions to a punitive policy.
Now the automakers owe a personal favor to "King Shitzizpants".
https://www.wired.com/story/people-paying-millions-donald-trump-mar-a-lago/
This little economic "experiment" of his will end up blowing up in his face, and it will be all of us that pay the price for his intransigence.
It would suck for a lot of us here in Michigan, though; I'm surprised Trump is delaying it, since I thought that brutality to us was part of why he's doing this. 🤷♀️
It's all designed to have companies beg him and in return they'll support him
Money made
In 2023, Canada accounted for about 12% of auto parts imported into the United States, or $16.1 billion. Mexico was the largest source of imported auto parts, accounting for 47% of the total in 2023. Lose 59% of those auto parts wouldn’t hurt us more than it would hurt them..
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/09/trump-oil-ceo-donation
What's it worth to "save" them from the harm he threatens?
Moving from autocracy to kleptocracy at record speed.
Reality may be just that he hates America. He’s doing everything he can to tear it down.
Today it’s education.
The damage he’s doing is enormous.
He’s not solving any problems. He’s just getting rid of solutions that may not be perfect and need updating.
🤣 🤣 Who are we kidding, I don't think anyone on the right understands what tariffs do. 🤦
‘Well, he's tellin' us this
And he's tellin' us that
Changes it ev'ry day
Says it doesn't matter…’
Trump said, ‘why????’
Lutnick whispered ‘Stooock Maaaarket’
Trump said , ‘oh’ 💡
Thxs
That will be all that's left.
..no,..He was told he fucked up big time.
Remove tariffs… stock gain…sell!
Tariffs again…. Markets crash… buy
Remove tariffs again… sell again
Am I the only one who figured this out?
It’s ALL about self enrichment with these turds
Once a narcissist always a narcissist,
Over 80% of Canadians have stopped buying American. It doesn't matter if he drops the tariffs tomorrow morning, it's too late, we're done with the betrayal and uncertainty.
What was it that nice black lady used to say?
"We're not going back."
Yeah, that.
https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/news/2025/03/list-of-products-from-the-united-states-subject-to-25-per-cent-tariffs-effective-march-4-2025.html