Bessent: I would advise none of the countries to panic. I wouldn't try to retaliate because as long as you don't retaliate, this is the high end of the number.
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So, if countries respond negatively to our insane tariff policies, then Trump will respond with more insane tariffs. Sounds like a delusional blackmail, extortion and protection racket all wrapped up into one statement.
I wonder if Americans have even begun to realize how the world views them. tRump is but a symptom of the deep societal ills that plague 🇺🇸. We've long relied on our warm 1:1 encounters to let us look past the truth about what your 'exceptionalism' really means. Collectively. Can't do that now.
Back in the 90s we traveled to Europe for the first time - we quickly did our best to NOT act like Americans - we didn’t succeed, but people seemed appreciative. A true statement would be Americans are not self-aware as a nation…yet
Trump: I am going to ass fuck your mom, your sister, your grandma and of course, everyone in your family with tariffs.
Trump sicophants: Don't over react, just relax and take it.
Wall Street: shhhhiiiit... we're all fucked.
MAGA: I love being a patriot! He's so smart!
God: Time for another flood.
Bessent: “I would advise none of the other countries to panic.” This is simply Trump Taxing Americans. He will remove this tax once he has collected enough tariffs into his ‘external revenue service’ to pay for his tax cuts for US billionaires. “Don’t retaliate.”
Fuck this guy. This is the problem, the US thinks they control everything and everyone. WE WILL retaliate. You know your stock market is going to crash, that is not our problem. Telling the world to just lie down and take it?? That's the GOP mantra, the rest of the world doesn't give a shit.
I honestly can't wait for the US to eff around and find out that the world doesn't actually need them. And I say this as an American. Our ego is way out of control.
As an American, I agree. I may not like it because I happen to live here, but the honest truth is that collectively we as a country have been long overdue for a lesson in humility for a very long time now.
His advice is to give in to the bully. Don’t upset the fragile, whimsical king or he will bully you more. His cabinet isn’t going to advise him, they expect everyone to fall in line.
It's like a national sales tax. And it included food! Even Texas doesn't tax food.
Seniors on a budget are going to have trouble with this and they may not live long enough to see that rainbow Trump talks up.
They know this insane policy only works if there is no retaliatory tariff. But that’s not happening, other countries are going to fight back, rightfully so.
Oh god. These idiots are going to kill us off. I believe that’s the point. Get rid of those of us (elderly, disabled…) that they consider a drain on resources or minorities, lgbtqi…that they consider sub human. This is a really horrifying situation. I’m elderly, my nephew is trans…
I listened to his interview with Kaitlin Collins and he’s not honest at all. Trying to say this is all good for the middle class. Spoken like a true billionaire. Awful.
You’re a very kind person, I thought I was too until all this shit started happening. Does it just have to be a punch in the face?
Asking for a friend, of course.
EU doesn't want chlorine chicken or GMO crop. Simple as that - Don't make poison and we'll be happy to buy it.
We have consumer protection here, follow that and everyone is happy.
Probably why we live longer.
EU companies are under the same restrictions btw incl. VAT.
What a fucking idiot. Sure tell counties not to protect themselves. Why do I see him getting his ass kicked on the playground and saying “well if I don’t fight back…”
To help people understand:
retaliating means any and all of those countries “retaliating” will not buy anything from America because it will be too expensive in taxes and definitely cheaper to buy it from another country.
"I would advise the victims of the knife-wielding attacker not to panic. I wouldn't try to retaliate. Because as long as you don't retaliate this is the high end for the number of stab wounds. We've got a ceiling."
Business CEOs opted to buy products overseas for cheaper costs to make their products creating a trade imbalance, decreasing the jobs in the United States. Now a rich President and other business owners are costing us new tarrifs to try to move manufacturing back. Citizens get to pay again.
Every other country should make the following response
“When the United States Senate and House of Representatives find actual qualified adults we can negotiate with, we’re ready - until then we will laugh at the utter ignorance and arrogance the President of the United States showed today”
There is NO WAY countries will not retaliate against 25% auto tariffs. Their margins aren't even that much to be able to absorb it and if pricing goes up to reflect it, you can bet US pricing will go up because they will lose 1/3rd of the markets they used to have to retaliatory tariffs.
That’s your advise to other countries dont panic and plz don’t retaliate. Do you think they need or want the advise of the sec of the treasury whose president levied tariffs on the whole world?
Sorry Don Knotts, we have a new “ shakiest gun “. This guy shoots pool with a wet noodle. Ladies and Gentleman, I have a nomination for “post of the night “ !!! Bravo, I salute you 👏🏽👏🏼👏🏻👏🏾👍🏾( Tragic Comedy/ Cowardly 💩/ Economically Illiterate + how, in the ass, is he going to dictate what sovereign
"No but seriously, please kick us in the face...that's the plan..we're shooting for a medium term societal meltdown that only the very wealthy can hope to survive and when it's over we emerge from our money bunkers as God kings of our neo-fuedalist paradise"
Up until now, I did not catch any right leaning candidates or elected officials giving interviews. Honestly, I could not stomach their sneering, insincerity, callousness, and lies, so why do all of the right representatives and senators appear condescending, holier than thou, and smug?
Dude, how will you talk with inhabitant islands. WTF! I see that you are NOT imposing taxes on your good friend Vladimir Putin. #Compromised #PutinGOPpuppets American Oligarchy in this administration is trying to emulate what Putin did to Russia. #RESISTANCE #RESIST ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽
#Bessent can go suck #Felon47's arse - he will have to get in line behind #Fuckwit-Lutnick & the sycophants.
Every country will retaliate, they will also form key alliances with other markets freezing US out. There are already calls for US marines in Australia to leave if tariffs are not removed.
So stupid. I didn’t know anything about Heard or McDonald Islands until today, but if I were the President I’d darn sure research a little bit before putting them on my tariff list.
The PM is right, Australia should work out a trade deal with the EU and leave us to wallow in our own idiocy.
I saw the hat-throw...trump is bent, just so corrupt-bordering-senile, as evidenced by his rambling, incoherent, bloviating address from the Rose Garden today...
Stop playing games bessent, all ssovrenties have a right to protect themselves. Who lets a bully tell them I have imposed my will don’t panic. We cannot take on the world and win. You’re a fool.
Imagine, a world where taxing imports magically lowers prices. In this reality, self-proclaimed economic wizard-Howard Lutnick, peddles the fairy tale that tariffs aren’t a sales tax on Americans but a gift-wrapped discount! Up is down, losses are profits! Repeat the lie, and presto—it’s the truth!
Wtf? Hey Bessent, we're not stuck here with you. You're stuck here with *us*. We're going to continue trading. It's just going to be with someone else.
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Trump sicophants: Don't over react, just relax and take it.
Wall Street: shhhhiiiit... we're all fucked.
MAGA: I love being a patriot! He's so smart!
God: Time for another flood.
Open secret: fascist regimes are always much more fragile than they look.
We can overcome them with nonviolent resistance. It will require brilliant strategy and implementation, but we can do it.
Our foreign policy strategy sounds an awful lot like sexual abuse.
Seniors on a budget are going to have trouble with this and they may not live long enough to see that rainbow Trump talks up.
The people do have a choice, regardless what politicians do.
And one thing America is already afraid of, Europe ending all purchases of military equipment.
Is going to happen.
I constantly think about George W. Bush and the shoes that were thrown at him in Iraq
Trump deserves worse than that
Asking for a friend, of course.
We have consumer protection here, follow that and everyone is happy.
Probably why we live longer.
EU companies are under the same restrictions btw incl. VAT.
retaliating means any and all of those countries “retaliating” will not buy anything from America because it will be too expensive in taxes and definitely cheaper to buy it from another country.
The US has slit its own economic throat. Well done dumbasses.
“When the United States Senate and House of Representatives find actual qualified adults we can negotiate with, we’re ready - until then we will laugh at the utter ignorance and arrogance the President of the United States showed today”
Major “lay back and enjoy it” vibes.
Nah fuck that and fuck them.
Your oppression is their profession.
Hit me and I'll hit you back!
During the Great Depression,
the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930
significantly increased tariffs
on foreign imports,
leading to retaliatory measures
from other countries
and a sharp decline in global trade,
which worsened
the economic downturn.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOvWS_xzRbc&pp=0gcJCdgAo7VqN5tD
Their plans were made before.
Ain't nobody messes with the makers of LEGO
Every country will retaliate, they will also form key alliances with other markets freezing US out. There are already calls for US marines in Australia to leave if tariffs are not removed.
If anything you don't want to be the odd one out not retaliating.
The US is an unserious country and at best, an unreliable ally. At worst, they are turncoats and a clear threat to their would-be allies.
The PM is right, Australia should work out a trade deal with the EU and leave us to wallow in our own idiocy.
Make America Grateful Again.
Yeah, sure. Idiot.
We don't take bullying.
Signed ,the world
See: Rubio, Marco and Cruz,Ted and Romney, Mitt and…
Plump does love the uneducated
And an amateur.
And a moron.