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Amazing To Read "Updates" From Legacy Media About Trump's Tariffs. Reminds Me Of COVID-19. [1]

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Date: 2025-04-27

There is one constant when it comes to the legacy media and Trump: they will always present all of his lies and bullshit as “updates” on some crisis that Trump has created. It reminds me of the COVID-19 pandemic. There were updates from Trump all the time during the pandemic, including injecting bleach into our bodies to fight COVID-19. And even when it was painfully obvious that Trump was incompetent and out of his depth, the legacy media just kept plugging on with Trump’s idiocy and lies as if everything was “normal.” All that happened is that people kept dying and Trump kept vomiting up disinformation.

The difference this time is maybe a lot of people won’t die. Instead, Americans will grow poorer, except for the billionaires.

Here’s the lastest and greatest of Trump’s lies and idiocy.

Trump says he won't reduce tariffs on China without something 'substantial'

So there will be no reduction in those 145% tariffs on China, unless China does something “substantial.” So what does that mean?

"Well, free up China, you know, let us go in and work China because, frankly, that's what we want -- we wanted and then we almost got it. And then they backed out of that deal. We had it, to go into China and sell our product, sell our wares. In other words, it's called 'open China.' That would be great. That'd be a big win. But I'm not even sure I'm going to ask for it because they don't want it open," Trump said.

Huh?

But don’t let that worry you folks. Trump has supposedly done “200 trade deals” already. Really. He just can’t give you all the details right now. According to this same update from ABC, Trump claimed that he will be done with all the “negations” [negotiations] in 3-4 weeks.

But what about China? It sure sounds like this is going to be a little tough to thread that needle what with Trump demanding that China open up. How is that going?

Trump tells ABC News he's spoken to President Xi 'numerous times' but won't say when

Really?

"You said you have spoken to President XI. When did that happen? Because China says it hasn't happened?" Scott asked Trump. "I’ve spoke to him numerous times," Trump said. "So we're leaving and going to Rome to be attending the funeral of Pope Francis. Some of you are going to go, anybody going? And going to be very interesting. We're going to meet with a lot of the foreign leaders. They want to meet. Trade deals are going very well. I think Russia and Ukraine, I think they're coming along, we hope, very fragile."

Huh? Sounds like more bleach talk to me. And when it comes to truth telling, I think Xi has you beat because I haven’t heard Xi being accussed of telling over 30,000 lies.

And Trump is still lying that we are bringing in loads of money from the tariffs. In fact, Trump claimed AGAIN that he is going to replace the income tax with tariffs. And this will benefit the little people like me. No really.

What this all really comes down to is that Trump has no “face saving exit” from his trade war with China. Xi has the upper hand in this trade war. China has a lot of our debt, and it can dump those U.S. securities and make life even worse in the U.S. And Xi knows that Trump desperately wants some BS deal to claim he “won” and can roll back the tariffs without looking weak.

Xi is an authoritarian who can ignore all kinds of economic pain on his people. Trump can do the same thing, but Republicans in Congress can’t. Unless Republicans can somehow permanently end elections, they will probably face a very bad midterm because of Trump’s self-inflicted economic wounds. And the Chinese know this.

Time is on China’s side.

But I do know that I’m feeling the same kind of whiplash and jaw dropping stupidity that I experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic. Funny how that very same thing happened during the first Trump Administration. If only there had been some record of those times, maybe the legacy media could have warned the American people about returning Trump to power? /s.

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