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[–] 59 points 1 year ago (21 children)

I'm an idiot, what is he even trying to say/convey here?

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  • [–] 52 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Trump said that there would be a 100% tariff increase starting in November, on top of the 30% one already in place.

    China hasn't issued an official response other than "we dont want a trade war, but we aren't afraid of one"

    People are legitimately worried because prices skyrocketed the last time he did this and they still haven't recovered.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    Trump is trying to brush off China/Xi's extremely rational trade policy response to Trump's extremely irrational trade policy decisions...

    ... by speaking as if this is all just a minor, temporary blunder on China's end.

    Basically, peak delusion/dementia insanity from the world's most "never ever wrong about anything" man.

    Trump really does need to be taken out to pasture, 25th Ammendment'd... otherwise literally millions, tens of millions of Americans will starve in basically a self-imposed Republican Holodomor.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Well Trump thinks the economy is the stock market, he doesn't seem to realise that his population actually care about the price of bread and milk.

    So the economy is bad for regular people, but good for stock market investors, Trump only cares about the latter.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    China should make a deal because somehow us not buying their cheap shit will cause their country to go into a depression instead of ours for some reason. I don’t think it makes sense. Don’t we owe -them- tons of money?

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