This is the art of expanding the trade deficit: exempt the expensive stuff made in Chyna that represent 90% of $ value, while Chyna tariffs 100% of US exports to Chyna.
So exactly how is he gonna reach the much vaunted $800 billion income from taxes if all the high end goods are exempted??
Toys, shoes and Xmas decorations??
Coz it ain't cars...
Europeans have already stopped exports..
They say, what's the point?
25% plus steel tax and
interest rates on the up!
You left out the part where he grifts and schemes billions for him and his friends. I have to think he'd be a lot less interested in all this Resolute Desk blathering if he wasn't making bank, day after day.
The time has come,' the Walrus said,
To talk of many things:
Of shoes — and ships — and sealing-wax —
Of cabbages — and kings —
And why the sea is boiling hot —
And whether pigs have wings.'
The Trump doctrine....take him at his word, like sometimes, maybe, okay maybe not, sure, but, he's the greatest, this is bonehead, we're losing trillions, can someone stop him please?! I regret everything.
The Chinese have already fired a shot across the bow in the form of disposing of $50B of treasury bonds, they still have about $950B of them that if they were dispose of it would be... problematic for the US.
I sometimes think Trump just loves to embarrass his sycophants. He sees one of the suck-ups on TV defending his stupidity to the hilt and thinks, "Hah, I'm going to do the opposite so that that guy looks stupid."
I’m going to go out on a limb and assume that the latest round of failures—err—exemptions will torpedo a lot of the expected tax revenue from these import taxes?
Tariff salad... not unlike word salad that constantly spews forth from his mouth. MAGA minions munch it up like an all-you-can-eat salad bar at the Golden Corral.
It is all part of a master plan. Perhaps too complicated for us with a normal IQ to understand. But I'm pretty sure the extraordinarily qualified members of this administration know what they are doing.
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You’re going to have fun on Monday.
Please ask Jim if $AAPL is back to “own don’t trade”.
Toys, shoes and Xmas decorations??
Coz it ain't cars...
Europeans have already stopped exports..
They say, what's the point?
25% plus steel tax and
interest rates on the up!
If you can believe it
Like the 75 countries banging on his door for deals...
According to the WH 20 have called and TWO are actually in discussion...
Fine tuning policy to solicit the bribes and continue the corruption.
https://bsky.app/profile/carlquintanilla.bsky.social/post/3lmmzoke5jc2c
What about small businesses, farmers, fishermen, and others who can’t afford to play in the D.C. Swamp?
Can you say corruption?
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04/12/us/trump-administration-news/trump-electronics-tariffs?unlocked_article_code=1._E4.UC40.E-S2Y5WcUhjG&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Spin that Lady as hard as she will go,
Where to stop, only Monte Carlo knows…
To talk of many things:
Of shoes — and ships — and sealing-wax —
Of cabbages — and kings —
And why the sea is boiling hot —
And whether pigs have wings.'
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/12/trump-administration-smartphones-computers-china-tariffs?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
a little bit...
#FDT #FGOP
i'm not scolding I'm just saying
this is fucking disgraceful
anyone not screaming their heads off deserves everything they get
impeach and charge him with treason with the conspirators
CORRUPTION
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/12/trump-exempts-phones-computers-chips-tariffs-apple-dell.html
https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-smartphones-electronics-laptops-apple-10c31e91d7790bfe8fb004f547109359
Just folding left and right
Absolutely no spine to follow through
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIYCpuvvxXg