The business world was shocked by the arrival of tariffs that President Donald Trump has talked nonstop about for more than a year: The trouble with taking the president “seriously, but not literally.”
  • boolean_sledgehammer@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Trump has been nothing other than exactly who he has portrayed himself as during the entirety of his political career.

    It’s why I don’t buy the “we were fooled” narrative. If you were fooled, you are either catastrophically stupid or you just don’t pay attention. Probably both.

    He has spent an entire campaign talking very proudly about all the stupid shit he was going to do. If you somehow thought he was still playing an elaborate strategy, l don’t even know where to start with you.

  • andallthat@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    The article is not offering any real examples, except for one CEO’s reaction to their stock drop in real-time during an investor’s call.

    Now don’t get me wrong. I really want this to be happening for real. It’s just that I would like to see more actual examples and less descriptions of hypothetical “CEOs with thousand-yard stares”.

  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 days ago

    I could’ve sworn that headline was satire.

    Wow they must really be struggling… give me a fucking break