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1 month agoRight. Like is that a base rate or is that just for steel and aluminum?
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Snip snap snip snap
He did just host his crypto dinner so who had his ear who was going to make boatloads of money on the EU tariffs?
Kind of amazing on the break out seeing how much republican poll support he’s still getting.
NEW Economist/YouGov Apr 20-22 % who approve | disapprove of Trump’s job performance
U.S. adult citizens 41% | 54%
Last week 42% | 52%
Start of term 49% | 43%
- Democrats 7% | 92%
- Independents 30% | 59%
- Republicans 86% | 12%
- Men 45% | 49%
- Women 37% | 59%
0·3 months agoFeels like a cozying up to trump looking for a tariff exemption by doing this too, right?
Except it’s Trump. He will never step down. He can’t admit he’s wrong on anything otherwise it’ll break his macho man persona of never being wrong and it’s not his fault.
33·3 months agoIt’s all ragebaiting and clicks now.
Looking like complete escalation since china won’t bend the knee to him
I’ve seen a new talking point popping up that he’s crashing the market on purpose to refi US debt and force the fed to drop interest rates…
Honestly they probably plugged it into Grok and asked it to spit out the list of countries to tariff.
It’s probably dumber than you think why they weren’t on there. The formula they used to come up with the countries tarrifs rate is based simply on trade deficit calculations. So if you aren’t exporting/importing from those countries they wouldn’t be included. It doesn’t even matter if there was a trade surplus.
For example, take the figures for China:
- Goods trade deficit: $291.9bn
- Total goods imports: $438.9bn
- 291.9/438.9 = 0.67, or 67%
- And halved = 34%
Sources:
https://www.ft.com/content/e025d7e6-512d-4e82-9c25-7900b94ac153
It was ironic after they called zelensky out, elonia wore one to trump’s Congressional rally.
This is America…they probably are already obese with diabetes.
He did that already in 2018 and they expired in 2024.
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257%2Faer.20190611
Tariffs resulted in a pass through cost greater than 100%.
They also find the employment effect (1800 jobs, not 2000) but the cost to the public of those jobs was $800,000+ each.
If you think about it. Have you ever seen him actually laugh or just smirk?
0·1 year agoMy two cents: The average American has a literacy rate of 7th-8th grade and not only does Trump talk to that level he also repeats things constantly so people can remember it. Couple that with all conservative biased media constantly blasting the same messages people believe Trump was looking out for them. Compare to Hilary who has been painted as out of touch with voters and courting high value donors since Bill was president and the Bernie thing she needed to capture more independents but she didn’t.
0·1 year agoTrump is totally going to bail and blame Biden saying it was rigged against him.
All social media are data honeypots. There is a reason all the tech oligarchy was front row at his inauguration.