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Donald starts tariff rant last night, picks it up Monday morning - update at end [1]
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Date: 2025-04-07
After two disastrous stock markets days, Trump has still not learned. On Air Force One last night, he blamed it all on Joe Biden.
The Dow is opening down 1,000 points.
Last night, after blaming Biden, he blamed China and Europe for "Financial Deficits," Not realizing he meant "trade deficits."
"The only was this can be cured is with TARIFFS..."
He lauds bringing tens of billions when he just caused $6 trillion to be wiped out in the stock market.
"... beautiful thing to behold." Beauty is in the eye of beholder, but this is ridiculous.
Joe Biden to blame again. "Presidency" in quotes as a snark.
"Some day people will realize that tariffs, for the United States of America, are a very beautiful thing."
How long into the future, Donald? At this rate, there won't be any people left to do the realizing.
Trump was up early to continue his defense of the indefensible. Oil prices are down because you've created so much uncertainty about whether anybody's going to be around to buy it. If interest rates are down, then why would the Fed need to lower them?
"...food prices are down..." No, they're not. "...there is no INFLATION..." It was at 2.8% and rising in February. Experts were already predicting 4.9% by the end if the year. That was before you threw everything into the wood chipper.
There has to an economic boogeyman, so China gets the role.
"...our past 'leaders' are to blame for allowing this..." Joe Biden, Congress, and the Fed are the scum that led us down this undangerous path. There is only one person to blame. The one who currently calls himself the President of the United States.
The next rant is even worse with new, made up, terminology
"Don't be Weak! Don't be Stupid! Don't be a PANICAN..." Panican? The only know "CAN" is Republi"can." Surely you don't mean them. Almost all are following you right off the cliff like lemmings.
"(A new party based on Weak and Stupid people!)" Just who is in this party? Stock traders? News reporters? Be a little more specific in your attack.
"...GREATNESS will be the result!" "Greatness." Donald is so far gone he still thinks he can pull the rabbit out of the hat, wipe the lipstick off the pig, and a dozen other colloquialisms.
He still wasn't done. Now he's bringing up what Marc Elias and others predicted. That the whole point of the tariffs is to have whole countries kiss the ring. Trump wants not to just rule the United States, but the whole world. He's a megalomaniac.
"Countries from all over the World are talking to us."
The bended knee fetish. Kiss my ring and I'll get rid of the tariffs, but you better make a good bribe.
The Japanese are apparently the first of this batch of supplicants.
"He is sending a top team to negotiate!" Only a top team will do. None of those inferior teams.
And then the whine. "They have treated the U.S. poorly on Trade." Cars, it's all about cars. Ours are going to cost appreciably more in the future, so why would they ever want to buy any? You already caused Stellantis to fire 900 auto workers, more are in the offing if you keep this up.
"Likewise Agriculture, and many other "things.'" Why is "things" in quotes? Are we talking about the original alien vegetable portrayed by James Arness (The Thing From Another World - 1951)? Just give me your clue.
"It all has to change, but especially with CHINA!!!"
He really has this extreme fetish for China, and all the world's ills that they cause. So, why did he just give TikTok another 75-day reprieve? It's all quite confusing really. What's new?
He had one more personal post that he was really excited about meeting the Los Angeles Dodgers at 11:00 a.m.. Damn, he was tweeting right up until post time.
He did 10 more posts of videos of his minions, with text support to make his disaster more palatable. I'm going to skip those for the time being.
The reality is that Donald is still completely delusional about his tariffs and what they're going to do to the economy. He doesn't care about the stock market tanking. He doesn't care about the people of the United States. He only cares about being the ruler of the world.
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UPDATE:
I was wrong. Trump posted one more time during what was supposed to be time with the Dodgers.
Now he's threatening another 50% tariff on China. It was 20% earlier in the year. Then he announced 34% additional on Wednesday, making it 54%. Now if he's adding 50% on top of that, it's 105%.
What in the world are "Non-Monetary Tariffs?" Tariffs are taxes. Money. How can you tax something that isn't money. Well, he certainly taxing our patience.
"Currency Manipulation," is true.
"Illegal Subsidization of companies," is done by everybody. Boeing is the top company here. Oil companies get them. Even Apple gets them. How ridiculous is that?
"... all talks with China concerning their requested meetings with us will be terminated!"
I thought the whole idea was to get everybody to negotiating table. Apparently not everybody, just the Japanese so far.
And then that weird sign off:
"Thank you for your attention to this matter!"
Just plain third person weird. He has to be talking to himself. Although this time, we were already paying attention to it.
Then, the White House rapid response team had to try to put the kibosh on the whole idea that Trump would pause the tariffs, like an intelligent person would. Of course, a really intelligent person would never have tried to impose them in the first place.
The user has now updated his post to reflect the rapidresponse47 team post.
I think Trump will just negotiate with as many countries that want to line up. Then he'll get tired of it and do the 90-day pause for everybody else.
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