There was no plan and no clearly defined goals that the tariffs were going to achieve. So when the negative things happened that every economist said would happen AND Trump saw he wasn't being lauded for this stupidity, he backtracked so he could say "there, I fixed it!" And the dolts repeated "see, he fixed it!". Nevermind he is the one who broke it. It is a tale as old as Trump's political career, but has happened half a dozen times with tariffs in just a few months.
Your argument has collapsed in on itself. It proves you libs believe no matter what, Trump is wrong. I can't take you seriously.
The claim that tariffs were implemented for self-serving reasons lacks evidence. Tariffs were consistently framed as part of Trump’s "America First" economic policy. He has always had a plan with defined goals and campaigned on it.
Trump made it clear that tariffs were a tool to pressure trading partners, particularly China, into renegotiating trade terms.
This is basic stuff. Like elementary school basic.
Yes, he put pressure on China so hard that they shut off rare earth exports that the US can't do without. This was easily predicted. Now he announces a plan where the allow rare earth exports as before and the US allows Chinese students as before. Tariffs are up which means higher consumer costs / taxes. China does not pay the tariffs, though it may decrease their output.
US manufacturing lost jobs. US consumer costs went up. US economic stability decreased. Foreign investment in the US decreased. US ally relationships became weaker. Rare earths, critical imports for national security, have not been changed to being US based, nor is there a plan for that.
Your argument has collapsed in on itself. It proves you libs believe no matter what, Trump is wrong. I can't take you seriously.
The claim that tariffs were implemented for self-serving reasons lacks evidence. Tariffs were consistently framed as part of Trump’s "America First" economic policy. He has always had a plan with defined goals and campaigned on it.
Trump made it clear that tariffs were a tool to pressure trading partners, particularly China, into renegotiating trade terms.
This is basic stuff. Like elementary school basic.
Yes, he put pressure on China so hard that they shut off rare earth exports that the US can't do without. This was easily predicted. Now he announces a plan where the allow rare earth exports as before and the US allows Chinese students as before. Tariffs are up which means higher consumer costs / taxes. China does not pay the tariffs, though it may decrease their output.
US manufacturing lost jobs. US consumer costs went up. US economic stability decreased. Foreign investment in the US decreased. US ally relationships became weaker. Rare earths, critical imports for national security, have not been changed to being US based, nor is there a plan for that.
Remind us again what the stated goals were.
If I am reading it right, it looks like USA taxpayers will pay a 55% tax (tariff) on Chinese imports, but China will only tax USA imports 10%.
Donald J. Trump ReTruthed Richard Grenell @grenell ·3h Thank God @realDonaldTrump acted quickly to send in more law enforcement officials to Los Angeles - he saved us. The riots would have gone on for days with hundreds of millions of dollars in damage. Gavin Newsom has now rushed to the San Francisco courts, not Los Angeles, to find the most Left wing judges to play politics.
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump ·6h Adding to the China readout, President XI and I are going to work closely together to open up China to American Trade. This would be a great WIN for both countries!!!
"WASHINGTON, June 11 (Reuters) - U.S. states will not be able to fully administer food stamp benefits for millions of the nation's poor if a proposal in the Republican tax bill forcing them to shoulder billions of dollars in new costs is signed into law, according to state officials, local government associations and policy experts. More than 41 million people receive benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, the nation's largest food aid program, which cost about $100 billion in 2024."
"WASHINGTON, June 11 (Reuters) - U.S. states will not be able to fully administer food stamp benefits for millions of the nation's poor if a proposal in the Republican tax bill forcing them to shoulder billions of dollars in new costs is signed into law, according to state officials, local government associations and policy experts. More than 41 million people receive benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, the nation's largest food aid program, which cost about $100 billion in 2024."
Donald J. Trump ReTruthed Richard Grenell @grenell ·3h Thank God @realDonaldTrump acted quickly to send in more law enforcement officials to Los Angeles - he saved us. The riots would have gone on for days with hundreds of millions of dollars in damage. Gavin Newsom has now rushed to the San Francisco courts, not Los Angeles, to find the most Left wing judges to play politics.
Trump should deport some high profile immigrants, like that godforsaken junkie Elan Muske for starters. That would show the average type American that this isn't some elitest type operation to hammer the low level migrants. More egalitarian.
Donald J. Trump ReTruthed Richard Grenell @grenell ·3h Thank God @realDonaldTrump acted quickly to send in more law enforcement officials to Los Angeles - he saved us. The riots would have gone on for days with hundreds of millions of dollars in damage. Gavin Newsom has now rushed to the San Francisco courts, not Los Angeles, to find the most Left wing judges to play politics.
Trump should deport some high profile immigrants, like that godforsaken junkie Elan Muske for starters. That would show the average type American that this isn't some elitest type operation to hammer the low level migrants. More egalitarian.
They are behind it because MAGA says so, that’s how the World works now. …
Our proof is MAGA says it’s so.
And there you have it.
100%. it’s called flipping the script. You make your bed and we will make sure you lie in it. Karma is a bltch. MAGA will insure the libs die by their own sword.
Don’t ever forget libs said that, with absolute certainty, that MAGA voted for Russian agents. No evidence. We were all racist. No evidence. We were all misogynists. No evidence.
And now the pendulum has swung. We will use your ways to bury you.
How is the trillion dollar deficit bill to fund the tax cuts for billionaires coming?
Musk broke ways when he found out Trump was going to pump the deficit even higher to fund tax cuts for people earning a million dollars a year and higher, right?
Your post reminded me of something, hasn’t Trump said that US Government debt is out of control? Didn’t he say Cackles would “explode the national debt” and “bankrupt the country”? Didn’t Trump say that the work of DOGE + ICE along with all the $$$ coming in from tariffs would solve all of these things that the Dims policies made worse?
if so, why is the national debt clock still showing the debt growing?…..
100%. it’s called flipping the script. You make your bed and we will make sure you lie in it. Karma is a bltch. MAGA will insure the libs die by their own sword.
Don’t ever forget libs said that, with absolute certainty, that MAGA voted for Russian agents. No evidence. We were all racist. No evidence. We were all misogynists. No evidence.
And now the pendulum has swung. We will use your ways to bury you.
son, not all Republicans are racist...but I guarantee you that all racists are in fact Republicans.
Not all Republicans are Russian agents but I guarantee you that all Russian agents wanted Trump elected in 2016
100%. it’s called flipping the script. You make your bed and we will make sure you lie in it. Karma is a bltch. MAGA will insure the libs die by their own sword.
Don’t ever forget libs said that, with absolute certainty, that MAGA voted for Russian agents. No evidence. We were all racist. No evidence. We were all misogynists. No evidence.
And now the pendulum has swung. We will use your ways to bury you.
Ah.
So you say “libs said ___ with absolute certainty.” That you “were all racist” and “all misogynists”? What percent of non-Trump voters do you think said that and believe those things?
Most of the people I know just roll their eyes at anyone with that all-or-nothing attitude or hyperpartisan set of assumptions about people around them.
Absolutely no reasonable person I know looks at that kind of behavior and says, “Hey, I need to do exactly that and throw it back in the idiots’ faces! That’ll show ‘em!”
100%. it’s called flipping the script. You make your bed and we will make sure you lie in it. Karma is a bltch. MAGA will insure the libs die by their own sword.
Don’t ever forget libs said that, with absolute certainty, that MAGA voted for Russian agents. No evidence. We were all racist. No evidence. We were all misogynists. No evidence.
And now the pendulum has swung. We will use your ways to bury you.
But then even the most undisciplined among us can suppose that what has been swinging is Michel Foucault’s pendulum, and even my diluted mind can grasp that he was a Lefty, and an expecially preverted one at that. But I guess you can take it for granite that that’s a mute point.
How is the trillion dollar deficit bill to fund the tax cuts for billionaires coming?
Musk broke ways when he found out Trump was going to pump the deficit even higher to fund tax cuts for people earning a million dollars a year and higher, right?
Your post reminded me of something, hasn’t Trump said that US Government debt is out of control? Didn’t he say Cackles would “explode the national debt” and “bankrupt the country”? Didn’t Trump say that the work of DOGE + ICE along with all the $ coming in from tariffs would solve all of these things that the Dims policies made worse?
if so, why is the national debt clock still showing the debt growing?…..
Given all of Trump’s amazing accomplishments already, at what point can we expect the debt clock to run backwards? 2026? 2027? 2028?
Bills are full of compromises benefiting many people over an array of sectors & interests spanning varying ideologies. Do you want him to go back to being an authoritarian? Which is it? You complain no matter what? TDS?
son, not all Republicans are racist...but I guarantee you that all racists are in fact Republicans.
Not all Republicans are Russian agents but I guarantee you that all Russian agents wanted Trump elected in 2016
All? All? JFC, don’t overplay your hand. You can deal a J-Q-K-A-A to a certain kind of lefty at a favorable table among just the marks you want, and the yutz will throw the ace to try to draw a straight.
We’ve seen that play out about [*checks the numbers*] a billion times in the last decade with Dem politicians and the left-leaning media.
100%. it’s called flipping the script. You make your bed and we will make sure you lie in it. Karma is a bltch. MAGA will insure the libs die by their own sword.
Don’t ever forget libs said that, with absolute certainty, that MAGA voted for Russian agents. No evidence. We were all racist. No evidence. We were all misogynists. No evidence.
And now the pendulum has swung. We will use your ways to bury you.
son, not all Republicans are racist...but I guarantee you that all racists are in fact Republicans.
Not all Republicans are Russian agents but I guarantee you that all Russian agents wanted Trump elected in 2016
