Neither does his supporters. They still think tariffs are a way to stick it to the countries they don’t like and we all know how effective it is to explain anything to a red hat.
He literally doesn't read. He has zero understanding of tariffs. 60% of our crude oil comes from Canada. Gas prices, among other things, will skyrocket. He's not playing 5D chess. He's a performative idiot.
He'll do same thing he did in first term - he'll enact tariffs, countries will react by putting tariffs on our exports (farmers!), and then he will bail out farmers losing their asses by giving them subsides funded by taxpayers, blowing up the US deficit. Guy is a menace.
The threat alone served a purpose. Companies cutting purchase orders left and right to beat 2025 price increases. Oh what’s that? No tariffs? What do you mean my purchase orders are non-cancellable? Panic buying December is coming…
He knows. He doesn’t care. It’s a power he can use on a whim. Once again a Republican inherits a great economy to wreck, leaving the disaster for the next Democratic president to clean up. Rinse and repeat.
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Let’s slap his name all over our incoming economic hardship.
Say it loud!!
HE NEGOTIATED the agreement.
Not one media outlet has mentioned he is griping about his own freaking Trade Agreements.