“I'm not looking for any deal. I mean, we've set the deal. It's at 50 percent. But again, there are no tariffs if they build a plant here.”
  • DaddleDew@lemmy.worldEnglish
    78·
    3 hours ago

    Good news. Whoever still thought it was still possible to get some slack by kissing Trump’s ass are now fully caught up with the reality that he is an unreasonable prick.

    Now the real decoupling of economies from the US can begin.

    • Wanderer@lemm.eeEnglish
      211·
      2 hours ago

      He’s not unreasonable he’s just a dickhead.

      Give him money and he will do what you want, fuck anyone else or his country.

      He is being completely reasonable if all he cares about is himself. He’s just a dickhead.

  • altphoto@lemmy.todayEnglish
    1·
    32 minutes ago

    Some people will have to start manufacturing stuff day in and day out like they used to do in the 50’s.

  • Aurenkin@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    44·
    2 hours ago

    I’m so good at deals, I’ve made probably 200 deals, everyone wants to make a deal with me.

    A few weeks later

    I’m not trying to make a deal with anyone! 😭

  • tburkhol@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    2 hours ago

    He made this announcement to give media something other than the “Big Beautiful Bill” to worry about this weekend.

    • KingPorkChop@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      1 hour ago

      I don’t give him that much credit. The idiot runs around shitting his pants and making a mess 24 hours a day.

      This isn’t planned. Swimming in a diarrhea filled ocean is his natural environment.

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 hour ago

      Never said he was as stupid as many others have said, especially when he was younger. (Yeah, average at best, and that’s a left-handed insult.) But damn! Even in his dementia, the man got a talent for leading the narrative.

      I started out saying, “Nah. He’s not that smart to be distracting like that, just spewing his usual narcissistic shit in reaction to events.” But after he’s pulled this move 100 times, I’m a believer. Gotta admit, he’s damned good at working the headlines.

  • kescusay@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    52 minutes ago

    Every headline like this should make clear that him imposing tariffs by fiat is illegal and unconstitutional.

    I hate the fact that the media just reports that he’s doing it without ever citing Article 1, Section 8:

    The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

    Every one of these tariff manipulations has been 100% illegal, because the supposed emergencies he’s using to excuse them are nonexistent.

    • Windex007@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      18 minutes ago

      Not a lawyer. Not an American.

      But there must be more context, because by my read of this specific text it doesn’t appear to be defined as a power EXCLUSIVE to Congress?

  • magic_lobster_party@fedia.io
    27·
    2 hours ago

    Next week he will brag about how he made a tremendous deal, and lower the tariffs as a result. What tremendous deal he made will be left unspecified, but Fox News will use this opportunity to report how great of a deal maker he is.

    • boydster@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      20·
      2 hours ago

      Whenever he makes this announcement, expect there to be a flurry of buying activity in the US stock markets in the day (or even hours) immediately preceding