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....claiming tariffs would bring in “$1 trillion”
They've already LOST $11 trillion. What an utter imbecile!!
So it'll just take 11 years to even out.
Edit: Just double checked, it's 1 trillion in the "next year or so". So x >= 11 years :(
tRump maths...lol.
In fairness to Trump, he has never, ever experienced the consequences of his actions. Bankrupt? Didn't put a dent in his life since his father and banks kept the money flowing to him regardless, more than once. Rapist? No jail time. Fraudster? No jail, not sure that any fines have even been paid. So why would he think, when nothing bad happens to him and he can still golf the weekend away, that anything bad will happen to all the people losing their jobs, their investments, their retirement, their homes? Why don't they all have rich fathers and sycophantic bankers to bail them out? At very least they should have Russian mafia backers like he does, that make it look like he's a billionaire, even if it really is billions in debt to them.
I agree that he wouldn't consider the consequences, but you're mistaken if you think he has given even a single thought to the plight of the people his tariffs are impacting - his narcissism wouldn't allow the thought to even form in his orange head.
It's amazing how confident the truly stupid are.
Americans circa 2025 about to take their economic medicine
sally has to say goodbye to puppy. weekly rations and all.
He will tolerate none for himself.
The rest of us can get fucked. STFU about the price of eggs, right? He’s no longer president. He’s gone full dictator. This is all about him.
It was always all about him. The election was the only way he was staying out of prison and the campaign was lie after lie after lie, telling his moron supporters what they wanted to hear, in order to secure their vote. He doesn't give a shit about those people once they've posted their ballot.
"sometimes you have to take medicine to fix something"
Exactly, medicine exists to fix something. What Trump is doing is substance abuse.
Donald doesn't have to tolerate any pain. He's a billionaire. Billionaire's way of life will still be unbelievably fabulous. It's us that suffer at their expense.
He's a billionaire.
Allegedly. His inability to pay some of the judgments against him calls that into question, e.g. the E. Jean Carrol suit. If nothing else, he definitely has a billionaire mindset.
Trump Media and the Trumpcoin crypto scam have, sadly, probably put his net worth back up high enough for him to actually be able to truthfully call himself a billionaire again. He just doesn't pay his court judgements because what are they gonna do about it if he doesn't? Take him to court again? His whole strategy is to make plaintiffs go broke trying to collect from him, which is why he has it out for all the law firms working pro bono against him right now.
Can we just elect Camacho? He's more qualified than whatever the fuck we got now
No can do, Camacho was black. And we can't have another black president. /s
Economic Medicine? This shit must have been economics course at the fucking failed Trump University.
its called a word salad, and the WEAVE.
he's totally ok that every vulnerable has to eat leather boots to make it through a depression.
"libs were pwned"
Haha. Trumps funny
Stupid questions for stupid people.
Well, it is a stupid question. A real journalist would ask how much more pain he's willing to let the American people tolerate for his poorly disguised reverse pump and dump scheme
His motives may be unclear, but his actions are crystal clear. He’s tried to enact tariffs already and been stopped before they were implemented because everyone knows the level of damage they cause. He’s moving forward this time. He’s deliberately crashing the global economy.
Why? Who knows? His Silicon Valley overlords demand it? I doubt it’s Putin, because Russia’s economy is hanging on by a thread, and the last thing they need is a global downturn, especially when it craters oil prices. Is it just that Trump is stupid, maybe senile, and ultimately in charge?
Regardless, the leader of the biggest economy in the world has decided that it’s time for a global recession/depression, so unless that course is changed, that’s probably what’s going to happen.
Everybody is thinking way, way too much into this.
If Trump would have to answer a question where he doesn't know the answer, or would have to admit that people disagree with him, or he feels even mildly challenged, this is considered a personal attack on him. You are trying to get him to admit to not being 100% perfect 100% of the time. And he responds to that by lashing out like a small child, attacking you, making up childish names for you, and insulting you. This is how he has always responded.
This has nothing to do with his thoughts on economic policies or the effects of his tariffs. He doesn't think far enough ahead to either know or care. This reporter had the audacity to challenge him, and Trump lashed out. That's all. That's how he always responds.
So true. You don't have to dig deep into any of his responses when you criticize anything about him. He will lash out. He's a child. That's it.