• psycho_driver@lemmy.world
    35·
    3 months ago

    I’m starting to think the tariffs are just another one of his grifter scams. He was going to offer foreign governments a deal “send me a million bucks and I’ll make sure your country doesn’t have to pay the extra tariffs”. China threw a wrench into it all by not even feigning interest in dealing with him.

    • reptar@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 months ago

      I think it’s much more likely a way to gatekeep a vast portion of the economy. Tariff exemptions for sale

    • lagoon8622@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      20·
      3 months ago

      He has always been obsessed with tariffs, even when he had no political aspirations. At no point in time has he ever had a correct comprehension of how they actually work

      • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
        4·
        3 months ago

        I was driving into work a couple weeks ago and NPR was playing a clip of him calling into a radio show and complaining about trade imbalances and the need for tariffs. That clip was taken from 1989…

  • falynns@lemmy.world
    27·
    3 months ago

    It’s a great time to remove people who refuse to see the emperor has no clothes from your life.

  • DandomRude@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    3 months ago

    Yes, that’s right, his absurd tariffs will really hit home soon - but certainly not in the way he imagines. The US citizens will have to pay the price.

    • mosiacmango@lemm.ee
      1·
      3 months ago

      Nah, hes already making exceptions left and right while reaching out to China to start talks.

      Stores have a 7 week lag from basically now before they run out of goods. He will have folded in every meaningful way by then. There will be a lot of tough talk and basically very little accomplished.

  • solsangraal@lemmy.zipEnglish
    51·
    3 months ago

    unfortunately every single wrong/false/bullshit lie that spews from his face anus like diarrhea from a firehose is basically the literal word of god gospel to the hordes of brainless moronic maga sheep, no matter how many laughably blatant contradictions you point out

    we have always been at war with eurasia

    • xzot746@sh.itjust.works
      5·
      3 months ago

      You’re hitting the nail right on the head. You’re not the type that the Republicans like, they like their people not as educated, I believe the Cheeto said that once or twice before.

  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
    70·
    3 months ago

    It really is like crypto scams. Just make them believe that its all okay and they will be rich. Meanwhile he extracts as much as possible while the scam is still going and in the end there will be one big rugpull.

  • D_C@lemm.ee
    62·
    3 months ago

    …4 years later
    “Evil Joan Bidens economy was so bad that even four years later it’s still turning the UNIVERSE into such a covfefe that it is down to me to save us. So I’m declaring ‘marshall lore’ and will stay as president until I’m dead…then Eric will become prez 👍👍. Make Ameri great something something”

  • Micans@reddthat.comEnglish
    3·
    3 months ago

    Do you have a source for the first one on Jan 29? I can’t find the first tweet on Twitter or MAGA Twitter, and I had to scroll a lot to make it that far back.

    We can’t be playing the fake game like they do. He has enough shit spewing out of his face sphincter to post real hypocrisy

  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
    13·
    3 months ago

    I really wish truth mattered. It takes so little effort to look at a graph of the stock market and see the exact date of a severe crash. It’s just now recovering to close to previous levels and that coincides with the dumb fuck backing off the tariffs.