Trump’s tariff reversal came after he watched an interview on Fox Business with JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, during which the bank boss said that a recession was a “likely outcome” of the new trade policies, according to the Washington Post.
Trump was asked by a reporter on Wednesday when he decided to put a pause on the tariffs.
“I would say this morning. Over the last few days, I’ve been thinking about it. Fairly early this morning,” he said.
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- “The Weave”
- Sharpiegate
- Vaccine/Covid Denialism
- Ukraine Blackmail
- Election Denialism
- January 6th
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Get loud you pricks.
He has concepts of a plan.
Really? What was their first clue?
A few hints here and there for sure.
The we’re only a few possible hint against him being a senile old moron. And they were probably when he was cranked on amphetamines.
It’s great to be a “radical left” these days and be allowed to openly and freely doubt the mental togetherness of the orange buffoon.
Hold still, the radicaler lefter will be long shortly to accuse you of being a “liberal” who’s worse than hitler.
It’s great. I can play both sides by just sitting on the couch!
“Might”?
It’s warranted. He might be insane or he might be insider trading and enriching himself and friends with his actions.
My non-existent money is on the latter.
Two things can be true at once. These animals don’t realize they’re pushing the rest of us into the arms of China. Going to war with them is suicidal, but America seems intent on swallowing her own lead.
Nah, these guys want a war. War is incredibly profitable, can last forever especially against a near-peer, and wartime presidents tend to get power expansions. They’re hoping this is the push they need to go full Palpatine and say “well we’re in a war, no elections until the war is done, also we’re taking a page from Lincoln and suspending habeas.”
Yep. I wish he was insane, that would be less damaging than it being his fucking personality
Mental acuity of a turnip
I quietly fear that fish doesn’t have a tariff plan and that they might be swimming.
Trump does in fact have a tariff plan and has had it for years. He uses tariffs to crash and recover the market for insider trading. These fuckers need to all be in jail. Since the justice system in non functional then US citizens should probably defend themselves from this economic terrorism in … other ways.
Fox news: But but but Biden knows a guy who has a dog walker who has a cousin that once babysat for a family that is corrupt so Biden was worse!!
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It’s important to the world to drop the “quietly” bit.
The US administration is behaving erratically and irrationally. This isn’t a punchline to some smug joke, it has important repercussions for world trade and defence needs.
Let’s cut the conspiracy theories about how they are doing this for graft, and the unfounded “4d chess” approaches. Some people in the administration may be trying to steer the government in these ways, but the captain of the ship is an unleashed chaos monkey surrounded by sycophantic yes-men.
The tariffs could double tomorrow or be gone tomorrow. The US could invade Greenland with a military force tomorrow or drop it completely move onto some shiny new idiocy.
We in the rest of the world need to move with urgency in order to be prepared for the worst. This is a tall task, so the longer we keep these admissions quiet the longer we are vulnerable
He could be insane and doing it for graft. He obviously sees himself like a mobster and tries to operate like one. My theory is he wants to individually negotiate tariffs to solicit bribes from businesses and foreign countries. It’s not exactly 4d chess. He just knows he has the power to pressure the richest and most powerful people on the planet, so he’s going to use that power to enrich himself and family. I don’t think he actually understands much about tariffs or much of anything though.
Also, the evidence of insider trading and market manipulation is pretty convincing to me. I don’t think that was the original intention, but Trump, or those around him saw the opportunity and took it.
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Let’s cut the conspiracy theories about how they are doing this for graft, and the unfounded “4d chess” approaches.
He is doing it for a grift, it’s pretty out in the open. You’re right about the 4d chess though. That’s his thing, think like a stupid mob boss that only does it for the grift. He thinks they owe him a favor now.
Link to video: https://nitter.net/MorePerfectUS/status/1910340290260463771#m
Video of Trump Bragging About Enriching His Billionaire Pals Draws Outrage
The video doesn’t show evidence of this being a planned out endeavour.
For it to be grift, those people would have had to benefitted from the dip in some way. But that’s not what this shows, it’s just billionaires having their shares go down in value because of trumps idiocy and then back up from the whiplash when he erratically reversed course.
Spraytan is trying to ingratiate himself to these rich assholes by taking credit for their gains by wilfully ignoring their losses were inflicted by him.
This is not to say that no one in the administration is using this for their own gains. It’s entirely likely that some are.
I’m just super sick of this narrative that Trump secretly has some master plan when we have 40+ years of well documented evidence about how stupid this man is.
Not just likely. Demonstrably true. You can see the trading increase significantly before he made each announcement/tweet.
I agree that the grift most likely came after the actions were decided. The guy in charge is absolutely a moron that acts solely on whims. It’s confusing because there are at least a couple people around with the grift agenda or their own plans that are feeding him ideas. So sometimes he uses a smart idea or he mixes what would have been a smart plan with something idiotic and/or some grift.
It’s why so many people are willing to kiss his ass. Because if you do it at the right time and you’re lucky, you get temporary control of the US government.
I don’t think Trump is an idiot anymore. I think he’s playing a persona just like Borris Johnson. It’s a cover for him. It’s not his stupidity that’s harming us, it’s his self-centered, ego and greed driven maliciousness thats destroying our futures.
He’s not a stupid person. He’s an evil person.
Oh my gourd please stop
He is a failed nepo baby whose only successes in life were being a hired hand on a reality tv show and accidentally stumbling into politics via undisguised racism.
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Never underestimate the enemy.
Over-estimating is just as dangerous. People – and our governments – keep getting surprised by this pattern of behaviour because we pig-headedly refuse to admit the truth.
In order for our countries to plan economic matters, and defense and intelligence and more – we need to expect the same patterns of stupidity and irrationality as we’ve seen demonstrated time and time again. This doesn’t mean all the actions will be stupid – folks like Putin other intelligent evildoers are in the mix of those who are manipulating the president. But they have shown a lack of ability to fully control the irrational behaviour from surfacing in policy whims.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me thousands of times… c’mon at some point we have to learn.
Yeah, honestly I used to view the likes of Putin as a rational chessmaster. Life is teaching me a great deal, especially that leaders are not powered by raw intellect. Rather, it is the willingness to be assertive that separates the ordinary person from a leader, be they good or foul.
Intelligence is more complicated than binary. He can be a moron in most ways and a successful grifter in others.
The difficulty in convincing fellow Americans of this simple and obvious fact is the truly damning bit.
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We’ve all been conditioned to not accuse our political opponents of being stupid.
For one, it can cause you to underestimate your opponents — you don’t want to be caught unawares of some secret plan.
Second, there’s an aspect of pettiness to just labeling your opponents dumb. Most often people attribute “stupid” to “I don’t understand this”. For example, the idea of it being stupid for poor people in Kentucky or whatever to vote against their interests and aid billionaires and oppose their own healthcare — when it’s not stupid, it’s a misunderstanding of how important identity politics are to these groups.
Third, there’s a pushback to the “Jon Stewart effect”, where we sit back and laugh about how our opponents are dumb and we smugly know we are smarter. This is an excuse to do nothing, and it’s an ugly impulse and we must fight it.
But all this conditioning — and more — has led us to a point where we can’t actually recognize stupid when it’s staring us in the face.
Your first point still applies anyway, though.
Why not both? More often than not, evil favors bold stupidity over cautious thinking.
Gosh you think? Has any of these morons been paying attention to the Orange Turd.
Repubs get a completely different perspective of Donald Trump. His evil is filtered through propaganda networks until they’re left with the God Emperor himself.
What do they mean by might be
seriously.
Did no one pay attention to his first term?
Hes an emotional, hyper-reactionary infant throwing levers to provoke reactions and to punish those who dare do anything but praise the glorious kissableness of his orange painted ass.
Theres no deep thought to it.
There is no 4d interdimentional chess moves.
There is no thinking.
There is just a monkey throwing shit for his own amusement.
He has that extremely annoying teenage boy need to pretend to be a badass, due to a massive insecurity complex and constant fear.
The problem is he’s an extremely entitled, privileged, and spoiled manchild whose daddy made him feel like he was worthless, and weak his entire childhood if he didn’t act as if he wasn’t a “Real Man,” and a “Killer” in business. He’s never matured emotionally beyond that. He has the mind of a frightened child.
And here we are, with him as the most powerful individual in the world. Fat Baby Jeebus help us.
Ironically, he is the poster child for why we need widespread, free mental health care. He is, loathsome as it is to say, a victim of his childhood trauma. Now we all have to be too.
explains why he gets on so well with Elon.
another emotionally stunted perpetually edgy wannabe teenager.
Childhood Trauma and possibly a broken dick due to a botched penis implant if Azealia Banks is to be believed.
The ruined dick isn’t the problem. If he wasn’t filthy rich, no woman would bang him due his repulsive, condescending, contemptuous personality. He was dumb enough to fire his PR team, then showed who he really was.
NO ONE likes him, except the young white boy DOGE “hackers” he pays to like him.
Musk is a misogynist. He convinces women to have children with him through IVF and they assume he’ll look after them forever. He then withholds money to control them and manipulate them to his will, because that’s the only way he can fuck a woman.
Yep.
That honeymoon is about to over, ending in divorce.
There’s no way that 2 manchildren that narcisssitic can share the spotlight. Musk will be evicted soon.
especially since everyone else in the whitehouse is long, long over dealing with Musk.
Yeah, that’s what I’ve read.
Like the attention seeking narcissist he is, he tries to funny for attention. But because he’s a psychopath who doesn’t truly understand human behavior, he doesn’t understand what is “funny,” and he’s insufferable.
I know some people like that.
and because they are an insufferable asshole with no understanding of human emotions, often times their idea of funny is just being an asshole to others.
Just look at how he posed with that bullshit “hard” face for both his mug shot and for his stupid photo that we now have to see hanging everywhere in official buildings.
For that mug shot they should have mussed up his hair and otherwise thrown him off and then snap the photo and capture the true essence of the man-baby.
What about the “marxist” Kamala Harris? We were told if she got in there’d be an immediate downturn. The cope is just to say either Biden goofed up so hard that’s why we are down OR it would have been worse under a democrat. This administration and its supporters have lots and lots of excuses.
Q: How do you know Trump is lying?
A: He opens his mouth.
What they mean is this:
“We spent a fortune to put this fuckin puppet in power, we had to work with every other sleezebag nation with the will to subvert democracy so we could get our golden-idol worshipped by the country’s stupidest peasants so we could deregulate the whole world via force if necessary, but it turns out the clown is so stupid he’s listening to the morons around him and not just our orders and now the market is crashing and the wrong people are profiting!”
Insane? No.
Drunk with power? Obviously.
Source: History.
Exactly. He’s in his second term. The man has literally nothing to lose. Who’s tried to stop him successfully so far? And don’t tell me a judge, because they haven’t — they’ve put up annoying speed bumps which are getting flatter by the day.
