“the numbers don't add up, the calculations are not what they appear to be. Last night, he was straight up lying about how they came up with the numbers”
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/donald-trump-lied-how-calculated-34985912
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/donald-trump-lied-how-calculated-34985912
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Trade deficit % ÷2 = made up tariff %.
This is why poor countries Cambodia, Vietnam etc, with the lowest wage employees, producing the most goods cheaply for export, but who are too poor to import US goods, are getting hammered.
It also reported some Greek poetry the WH published, pretending it was the maths they'd used; it was, of course, nonsense.
Treasury Secretary Bessent was right in Lock-step, he's a real professional liar too
'Tariffs won't cause inflation'
really now ...........
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#BigOlBaitNSwitch
He has set a tariff the same as the deficit, proportionally hitting the UK twice as hard as the EU.
https://bsky.app/profile/wired.com/post/3llukrhl3sk2x
The media lies. As usual.