Economy Trump's April 2nd Tariffs

No, they’re not. The stats he held up on Wednesday were actually trade deficit numbers he was tricked into thinking were tariffs. Do you honestly think Madagascar is applying a 93% tariff?

Good god - people are really revealing the depths of their stupidity and psychosis.

I don't care what beheld up i stayed what i supported not what he was presenting.
 
Vietnam warming the knees up for bending.

how come nobody has an issue with how other countries tariff the US but then cry when Trump simply matches it?



Because the United States is a financial behemoth on a scale that has never been seen before. We pay out more in subsidies to multiple economic sectors than most countries entire GDP.
 
I love the Trump voter reaction very Karen of t them.

 
You've only lost thousands? There's other ways you can tell the WR you're a poor

(Sorry couldn't resist. But yeah this sucks. My parents just retired 2 years ago. I'm way more worried about them than I am in my 30s on this rollercoaster ride. But at least they have real social security)
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Vietnam warming the knees up for bending.

how come nobody has an issue with how other countries tariff the US but then cry when Trump simply matches it?



Because the US applied a shitload of tariffs to countries which don't have trade barriers with the US, if this was just about reciprocal tariffs it wouldn't be as bad.
 
Hopefully the CDC is not asleep at the wheel.
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5 nurses in 1 unit at Newton-Wellesley Hospital diagnosed with brain tumors"​

 
Donnie trying to figure out tariff deals for Nike knowing this American iconic company is on the brink if tariffs remain. He knows he’s fucked up here.
 

WH Deputy Press Secretary Calls Tariffs Just ‘One Economic Tool’​



White House deputy press secretary Kush Desai said Thursday that President Trump is taking a “full-of-economy approach” to “restore American greatness,” even as others look at tariffs in isolation.


“Tariffs are just one of many economic tools that this president is using to unleash American growth and restore American greatness,” Desai told Newsmax.

“I think there's a tendency to look at tariffs in isolation, but when you look at the fact that this administration is also plowing ahead on deregulation - the previous administration put on trillions of dollars in new regulation on the American economy. That means added compliance costs for our companies and for everyday people,” Desai said. “When you look at what we're doing with energy, where we're unleashing American energy, and that's not just savings at the gas pump, but when you look at something like diesel, almost everything you get at a grocery store or something like that is brought to you in a truck. Those trucks are powered by diesel and, for truckers, usually one-fourth of their operating costs are diesel or fuel costs. So, we're taking a very comprehensive approach here, where our economic agenda is unleashing all these supply-side reforms in addition to tariffs. And it's this full-of-economy approach here to, as the president said, restore American greatness.”

Desai also pushed back on the notion that Trump is hurting the economy with the tariffs.

“We've seen industry leaders, I mean, TSMC [Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.], Apple, Hyundai, they're pouring in trillions in historic investment commitments to make in America and that's because of these tariffs and that's because of the deregulation and that's because of the energy being unleashed here," he said.

"So, again, I think there's this tendency in the mainstream media to really just focus on tariffs in isolation without looking at everything else we're doing,” Desai continued, adding that the Department of Government Efficiency is helping to bring down inflation.

“DOGE's going in there cutting spending, and that's going to help lower interest rates at the end of the day as well,” Desai said.
 

WH Deputy Press Secretary Calls Tariffs Just ‘One Economic Tool’​



White House deputy press secretary Kush Desai said Thursday that President Trump is taking a “full-of-economy approach” to “restore American greatness,” even as others look at tariffs in isolation.


“Tariffs are just one of many economic tools that this president is using to unleash American growth and restore American greatness,” Desai told Newsmax.

“I think there's a tendency to look at tariffs in isolation, but when you look at the fact that this administration is also plowing ahead on deregulation - the previous administration put on trillions of dollars in new regulation on the American economy. That means added compliance costs for our companies and for everyday people,” Desai said. “When you look at what we're doing with energy, where we're unleashing American energy, and that's not just savings at the gas pump, but when you look at something like diesel, almost everything you get at a grocery store or something like that is brought to you in a truck. Those trucks are powered by diesel and, for truckers, usually one-fourth of their operating costs are diesel or fuel costs. So, we're taking a very comprehensive approach here, where our economic agenda is unleashing all these supply-side reforms in addition to tariffs. And it's this full-of-economy approach here to, as the president said, restore American greatness.”

Desai also pushed back on the notion that Trump is hurting the economy with the tariffs.

“We've seen industry leaders, I mean, TSMC [Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.], Apple, Hyundai, they're pouring in trillions in historic investment commitments to make in America and that's because of these tariffs and that's because of the deregulation and that's because of the energy being unleashed here," he said.

"So, again, I think there's this tendency in the mainstream media to really just focus on tariffs in isolation without looking at everything else we're doing,” Desai continued, adding that the Department of Government Efficiency is helping to bring down inflation.

“DOGE's going in there cutting spending, and that's going to help lower interest rates at the end of the day as well,” Desai said.
Insane levels of delusion.
The slashing of regulations is only going to make it easier for corporations and predatory lenders to take advantage of people, that’s what happens every time we do this. That’s why we passed the Dodd-Frank bill that Trump repealed, it’s why we created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that Trump obliterated.
Holy Jesus, WAKE. UP.
 
Is it really some sort of urgent issue? US manufacturing output is larger than the GDP of all but six countries. Investment in US manufacturing capacity over the last four years alone is over $625 billion. There are literally over 480,000 unfilled job openings in the US manufacturing sector, right now. What the fuck are people even talking about with this? It seems nobody has a clue, least of all Trump. It's like declaring a "national energy emergency" when domestic oil and gas production are at all-time highs, absurd nonsense.
The US is a massive economy though and looking to carry on playing a role as a superpower plus I suspect events in Ukraine may have brought things into sharper focus, very hard to get exact details but I'v seen it mentioned a lot that the key thing which is giving Putin the upper hand is the US inability to keep pace with artillery munitions supplies. I think you could add as well that the US inability to bring Putin to heel with economic sanctions was also a major failing.

Seems like the Trump "plan" is to try and revert to something more like the Bretton Woods system of the post war era? the threat of tariffs is used to force other countries to potentially link their exchange rates to the dollar in some fashion to keep US exports cheaper?

It does kind of seem like a acknowledgement that the US no longer has the kind of dominance it did post cold war were ability to make endless debt with the dollar as reserve currency(now damaged significantly by seizing Russian money) could support military spending. That instead its going to be more about dividing the world into allies and enemies in a neo cold war with the Chinese.

The difference to me seems to be though that the US doesnt have the goodwill of WW2 this time and Trumps bluntness arguably isnt helping although honestly I tend to think a lot of it is really saying the quiet part loud. Really Trump is puncturing the carefully constructed liberal free market world PR sell, your seeing US dominance being openly played up much more and the EU especially is having to face how weak it is and really has always been,

Besides this as well of course your dealing with "to what end?", the Bretton Woods era USA had some strongly socialist elements to it and the general idea that limiting wealth inequality and strong social mobility was needed to stem off full blown revolution or a "real" socialist coming to power. Trump I suspect though were going to see the "benefits" of this go to the ultra wealthy, most likely in massive tax cuts which will leave everyone else less well off in the face of significant inflation.
 
[QUOTE="Kingz, post: 174990056, member:

how come nobody has an issue with how other countries tariff the US but then cry when Trump simply matches it?

How many times people will have to show that there are no tariffs being matched?
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I just laugh at them and move on.
 
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