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 20 hours 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 14 hours ago
ryannathans@aussie.zone 19 hours 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 19 hours ago
He doesn’t understand what “trade deficit” means.
RaccoonBall@lemm.ee 17 hours 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 16 hours 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.