Summary
Donald Trump lashed out at China for retaliating against his new tariffs, calling the country the “biggest abuser” of U.S. trade.
After Trump imposed an additional 34% tariff on Chinese goods, China responded with its own 34% tariff on U.S. products and suspended key imports.
Financial markets in both countries plunged, with U.S. economists warning of a potential recession.
Despite backlash, Trump defended his strategy, urging the Fed to cut rates and calling the tariffs a path to long-term gain. Critics warn of global economic instability and rising protectionism.
“W-when I specifically asked you not to…?”
Trump is incredibly weak. It blows my mind that anyone looks at that slug and sees anything other than a despicable, pathetic cretin.
We live in a completely different information environment than Trump fans.
Spend some time watching the MAGA media ecosystem, and you can see why people hang on his every word. I blame them, influencers profiting off MAGAland, more than any supporter consuming it.
Spend some time watching the MAGA media ecosystem
I have. I have family, some of whom I lived with during some of the MAGA years.
He’s no less pathetic there.
At some point, you have to accept that people legitimately love the bullshit spewing out of his mouth. The people who go to his rallies and watch him live, no intermediaries, fall over themselves with adoration.
I’ve watched fox news try blame a crash 1 day after tariff announcements as somehow Biden’s fault. Not a very convincing argument for why i shouldn’t blame Trump for thousands of dollars in personal investment losses.
Am i missing some step, like turning off my brain? Will I then be able to happily vote for someone who is personally fucking me with almost surgical precision?
You’re just a totally different base than Fox’s. They’re telling viewers want they want to hear, which has always been this, for decades. They have to, as otherwise they’d switch channels and lose engagement blaming non-liberals for anything.
No you just aren’t in a ideological cult information bubble, they aren’t watching fox to learn or gain context they watch fox, listen to conservative radio, and consume smooth brain influencers to reinforce the narrative. Its the same reason that the Soviets and NorKs have constant broadcasts on telephone poles with the only key difference being that these folks are doing it voluntarily, after all if you have a willing audience it’s a lot easier to control them. They need that constant reinforcement or it starts to break down.
Did Trump dressed in his costume even say “thank you” “please” or “Xia Xia Ni” after telling china not to retaliate?
Wǒ qǐngqiú nǐ bùyào bàofù, xièxiè.
when trump plays tennis complains the other person sends the ball back
When we’re in a bona fide depression he’s going to point to this as the reason he failed. “Look, if China, those damn Chinese, if the China had just let me grab them by the wallet, if they played nice, well we’d all by billionaires by now. I promise. The best billionaires. Believe me. It’s China’s fault.”
I could hear him say it
What did he expect to happen?
That’s like complaining about someone punching back after you sucker-punched them.
Worse, it’s like complaining about someone punching back in a boxing ring during a fight that you scheduled months ago. And you’ve been shit-talking the opponent for decades.
After the tariffs were unveiled in front of TV cameras at the White House, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told those countries named: “Do not retaliate, sit back, take it in, let’s see how it goes, because, if you retaliate, there will be escalation.”
I’m sure that went over well. Xi loves sitting back and taking it in, especially when this is on Trump’s mind:
“'Oh, he used the word ‘rape.’ That’s right. I used the word ‘rape,’” Trump said at the Detroit Economic Club after his remarks were met with what sounded like some gasps from the audience. “They raped our country,” he repeated.
Trump defended his strategy, urging the Fed to cut rates
Look, I’m not an economist. Nor do I pretend to have anything more than a YouTube education on how a country responds to interest rate shifts.
But wouldn’t the fed cutting the rates plunge us directly into an immediate recession and worsen inflation? I mean, the fed cutting rates during COVID led to the inflation we’re now seeing, right?
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Trump showed up to a war of wits completely unarmed.
Never thought I would find myself rooting for China as a Canadian from the sidelines…
Get ready for World War season 3. Starring Tariff Trump. https://www.investopedia.com/articles/markets/022516/economic-conditions-helped-cause-world-war-ii.asp
People don’t seem to appreciate how many instigators of WWII are also happening right now.
US lands pretty much came out of WW2 untouched except Pearl Harbour, so US grew rapidly while rest of world has a lot of rebuilding to do.
Warmonger Trump is now replicating that and so repeating history to start WW3. From forcing Ukraine to surrender to russia just like how Czechoslovakia was forced to surrender to nazi Germany and now Trump is pushing every country into protectionism trade wars.
Ha if he manages to get a rate cut in addition to his insane tariffs the USA is going to long for the inflation of Biden’s term.
