He is incapable of understanding mutual trade and cooperation. To him every human interaction must have a winner and a loser. So if Canada is benefiting from trade with the US in his mind it must be at America’s expense. It’s a disturbingly simple view of trade and cooperation, and one that makes actual good faith discourse with the US near impossible.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
What is it with Trump and always “being subsidized by us” and “take away from us” while the US has trillions of debt in other countries? 300 billions to my home country alone, which doesn’t even compare to other countries.
AtomicPinecone@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
ThraawnSolo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Because Trump is a troll. He doesn’t give a shit if what he says or does is correct. Trying to make sense of the schmuck gives me a headache.
ryannathans@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
He keeps referring to the disproportionate US export income to import costs. Something like 2 trillion in exports to 3 trillion in imports. 1 trillion lost from the US every year, and ~30% to Canada that’s his math
Alaknar@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
He doesn’t understand what “trade deficit” means.
RaccoonBall@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
He trusts that his followers don’t, anyway. Based on some arguments I’ve seen online, he’s right about that.
Alaknar@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
I mean, he always calls trade deficit a “subsidy”, and has since 2016. I honestly don’t think he understand what that concept means, he’s not that subtle with manipulation.