Well you see he’s a profoundly stupid man that sincerely believes tariffs are paid by the producer, not the importer and he’s so sure of himself that it’s literally impossible that he is wrong about anything, ever.
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CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Give me what I want or I’ll tax my population SO HARD! I don’t get it.
Sabin10@lemmy.world 2 months ago
balder1991@lemmy.world 2 months ago
He was wearing a cap with “Trump was right about everything” in a recent event, right? Who does that?
devfuuu@lemmy.world [bot] 2 months ago
Brainwashing and propaganda to sell internally. He’s preping all americans to hate everything that is outside of them and to blame on those pesky other bad countries. He’s basically ensuring he has enough bodies to use for war.
III@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I see these countries building their trade with counties other than the US as the only good part of Trump’s tarrif tantrums. Less reliance on the US is better for everyone, even the US. Because it will force us (I am American) to have to participate globally without the strong arming bullshit we have always relied upon. It will force us to actually work with others.
Azal@pawb.social 2 months ago
He bankrupted a casino. That’s all you need to get.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The U.S. is the world’s largest consumer market by a factor of 3. So it’s more accurate to say “Give me what I want or I’ll take away a sizable chunk of your customers”.
You and I both know that the U.S. won’t just magically and instantly stand up its own production to replace your countries market, but in this case he just needs American companies to start importing from a different foreign country with lower tariffs. The effect this has on your country depends on how much your country’s GDP comes from exports to America, but it’s potentially very harmful.
As an American this sucks because long term, long after this dude is gone, our trading partners will have already adjusted who they’re exporting to in order to absorb a loss like this, and I doubt that’d change for decades.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 months ago
European markets don’t tend to send the US products it tends to be services. There isn’t anyone else at least there isn’t anyone else who doesn’t already also have tariffs on them.
He went to town with married a little while ago and decided to put tariffs on everyone including nations who’ve never traded with you United States because they have a population of six people and 3,000 koalas.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Plenty of EU countries export a significant portion of their total goods for export to the U.S. , many of which are around 20-25%. Ireland tops the charts with a whopping 46%.