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Reporter asks how "90 trade deals in 90 days" is going: Trump's answer is complete gibberish [1]

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Date: 2025-07-09

Presidents have a range of rhetorical styles and abilities. Clinton was a master of English. Bush was a master of malapropism. Obama was a pause-and-deliver intellectual. Trump is a gibbering moron. He has the vocabulary of an eight-year-old. The attention span of a four-year-old. And he rarely finishes the same sentence he started — in the rare instance he finishes a sentence at all. He calls it “the weave”.

It is — in the same way “the weave” is the way a drunk walks.

On Monday, Trump hosted the suck-up Israeli PM Bibi Netanyahu at the White House, where a reporter asked a blunt question.

“On tariffs, what happened to 90 trade deals in 90 days?” she pressed the beefy braggart.

In a classic example of Orwellian doublethink, Trump responded by saying that the deals were done, and he was also going to levy tariffs because the deals weren’t done.

Let’s parse the stream of effluence that comprises the verbal output of a sputtering brain. After congratulating himself for “it’s all done,” Trump adds a Schumerian approach to conflict resolution. He sent a letter.

“Oh, we’ve spoken to everybody. We know every– it’s all done. I told you. I told you we’ll make some deals, but for the most part, we’re gonna send a letter. We’re gonna saying, “Welcome to the United States. If you’d like to participate in the greatest, most successful country ever”

Then it was on to say how great things are going, and brought up “numbers”. What numbers? Who knows? He didn’t say.

“I mean, we’re doing better than ever. We have– I don’t think– and you’re gonna see these numbers soon. We’ve never had numbers like this. We’ve never had investment like this.

Then he rolls out the ‘we made deals, but we didn’t make deals’ rhetoric.

“Uh, we have more than 90 [deals]. We’re gonna have much more than 90. But most of those are gonna be sent a letter. This is gonna be exactly what I sent. Now, we’ve made a deal with United Kingdom. We’ve made a deal with China. We’ve made a deal with– we’re close to making a deal with India.

Credit where credit is due. I understand the Trump deal with the UK will keep the tariffs on imported Rolls-Royces low, so that’s a win. However, what deal with China? “Close to a deal” = “no deal” with India. I am not impressed.

Then, to confirm that when he said “we have more than 90 [deals],” he was merely flinging feces at MAGA, Trump again admits that what he meant by ‘deal’ was that he sent them letters.

“Others, we’ve met with, and we don’t think we’re gonna be able to make a deal. So, we just send them a letter. “Do you wanna– do you wanna play ball? This is what you have to pay.”

Trump then says the pen pal phase of his master plan is now over.

So, we’re– as far as I’m concerned, we’re done with sending out letters to various countries, telling them how much tariffs they have to pay.

How many times is he going to mention letters? There was me thinking that negotiations involved two parties. The next time my bank tells me I’m overdrawn, I’ll fix the problem with a letter explaining they need to cut that nonsense out.

However, let us not accuse Trump of being all stick and no carrot. The man can be magnanimous. If a country has a “cause,” he’ll dial back the pain. The reader may accuse me of cynicism. But I can’t help thinking this is coded language for a bribe. Extortion even. Something along the lines of “That’s a nice little country you have here. It would be a shame if something were to happen to it.”

“Some will maybe adjust a little bit depending if they have a, you know, cause. We’re not gonna be unfair about it.”

America’s crime overlord then tells his vics they’re getting off easy because he’s a sweetheart.

“And actually, it’s a small fraction compared to what we should be getting. We should– we could be asking for much more. But for the sake of relationships that we’ve had with a lot of really good countries, we’re doing the way I do it. But we could be getting a lot more. We could ask for a lot more than what we’re asking for.”

Note: As I write this. I have just received a notification that Bozo has slapped a 50% tariff on Brazil because the country is putting its ex-President, and South American Trump wannabe, Jair Bolsonaro, on trial for his domestic crimes. What part of the American President’s official duties is that?

Also, the US has a trade surplus with Brazil. A rare state of affairs that should be encouraged. Not blown up.

Mind you, it tracks. Trump is defending one criminal while another, Netanyahu, has just presented him with a nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize. In addition, while Putin may be temporarily in the friend zone, the Russian kleptocrat is one baksheesh away from being back in the bed.

MAGA sees what they want to see in Trump. Everyone else sees a criminal wannabe fascist on the make. However, strip the man of his avarice and ambition, and what’s left is a doddering fool, with a Swiss cheese brain, who speaks English as a second language without having a first. Yet he still won the election.

Are Americans really that dumb?

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