Sen. Ted Cruz has begged President Donald Trump to stop listening to the tariff hawks in his administration and “take the deal” countries are offering to lower trade barriers.
Sen. Ted Cruz has begged President Donald Trump to stop listening to the tariff hawks in his administration and “take the deal” countries are offering to lower trade barriers.
Trump’s aides love tariffs because Trump loves tariffs. He’s been obsessed with them his entire life.
Rafael isn’t criticizing Trump, he’s giving him an escape hatch, trying to pretend that this is all “bad advice”.
NPR played a clip from 1987 of him calling into some radio show to bitch about trade imbalances.
Exactly. He’s been holding onto this notion for decades, and no one has ever disabused him of it. Now he’s a mentally declining old idiot and it’s too late to teach him that he’s wrong.
This is why Bessent is trying to bail. He’s never been a fan of this “tariff everyone” approach, and it’s now finally occurred to him that he’s going to get the blame to cover Trump’s ass.
Can’t tell narcissists they’re wrong, they just lash out. If he believes he’s right he’ll make 8000 excuses as to why his plan failed. IV seen it before in the family my aunt married into. Even when wrong they were never wrong, until a “higher ranking” narcissists in the family bullied them into submission. Sadly, no higher ranking narcissist than the president