Summary
Donald Trump defended his sweeping new tariffs—including a 104% levy on Chinese goods—despite market turmoil and a historic sell-off in U.S. Treasuries.
Speaking to Republicans, he claimed manufacturing is returning to the U.S., repeating, “I know what the hell I’m doing.”
China responded with an 84% tariff on U.S. goods, intensifying a trade war that tanked global markets.
The S&P 500 nears bear territory, and JPMorgan raised global recession odds to 60%. Critics warn of inflation, declining investor confidence, and deepening economic instability.
Translation: he doesn’t have a fucking clue what he’s doing.
Update he indeed doesn’t know
Anyone who has to say
he’s king is no kinghe knows what the hell he’s doing doesn’t know what the hell he’s doing.Orrrrrr, maybe just needs legislators to look the other way just a little bit longer, until the massive public unrest allows for martial law.
Narrator: He did not know what the hell he was doing
-says man who has no idea what he’s doing
He does have a lot of experience running failures further into the ground.
Narrator: he did not, in fact, know what the hell he was doing.
I mean, I’m not 100% opposed to some of the things he claims he’s trying to accomplish. But I’m not what you’d call an expert on the topic, and I might have some bad ideas about how the economy works. But even if I’m not barking up the wrong tree, the things he’s doing are not how you accomplish the things he says he wants to accomplish.
Why do we keep electing stupid old men to office?
Why do we keep electing stupid old men to office?
Because the majority of the USA is also stupid. Most people in this country lack proper education. Hell even colleges pump out degrees that are their to make money.
that are
theirthereLol foot in mouth
They’re just illustrating their point there.
No their not. There plane wrong and just mispelling things occidentally. You should learn 2 except when your wrong.
My brain hurts from writing that.
It didn’t effect me at all, and now I no longer exist!
Media literacy is the key thing missing.
Too many “smart people” drank the fox news Kool aid, believing somehow that they were unbiased news…
Yes. Unbiased fox… The people that talk in terms of “we” when discussing Republicans/conservatives. The people that NEVER have one single good thing to say about a Democrat or “the left” unless it’s because they were siding with Trump/GOP. The people who’s only standard is “follow whatever the GOP is saying RIGHT NOW” even if that means contradicting what you just said a handful of weeks/months ago (Before election: Trump is the president of peace. Now: Maybe we should stop being nice and take Greenland by force if necessary.)
Unbiased… Riiiiiiight.
This. It’s simple propaganda and it’s effective AF.
It’s not just a lack of education. There’s a mentality that a lot of burgerlanders have that breeds arrogance and stupidity just at a base inherent level.
“Hold my beer.”
Following Putin’s orders.
Why are we not talking about the phone call they had a month ago, hmm?
Trust him, he’s done this six times before.
And it seems to have worked out for him pretty well. He lives an incredibly lavish lifestyle, won the presidency twice, has a huge collection of devoted followers, and generally seems to have avoided any negative consequences.
Between Trump and the people around him, SOMEONE know what they are doing.
You forgot corruption. Corruption, I suspect, is what is “around him”.
I know the “imagine if Obama did it” is so very tired at this point, but - seriously, just imagine if it was Obama doing this.
Nothing screams “DEI hire” like a washed-up never-was who is only known for being a white male fail-son nepo baby who failed up his entire life, and known for multiple bankruptcies - who couldn’t even make money with a casino - who is now fucking around with a Goldilocks economy and making it burn to the ground - all this, while his courtiers keep praising him and gaslighting the entire country.
If it was Obama doing this, I bet the people on Faux would be losing their minds so much that they’d probably just drop all the pretense and be using the n-word on the air… 🤣
They’d be looking up bible verses and calling him the antichrist.
Edit: oh wait…
HODL MY MILLER LITE!!!
He strikes me as a diet Coke and orphan blood kind of guy.
Either he doesn’t know what he’s doing, or he does and this is the desired results. Both options are terrifying for the future.
He does know what he is doing. He just doesn’t care about anyone else. And he is basing his opinion that what he is doing will work out simply because everything else he has done has “worked out” to get him where he is. In the narrow scope of just him, his thought process is almost rational. But the world is bigger than him, even if he doesn’t want to believe it.
I’ve never heard a single person say “I know what I’m doing” and then a good result happened…
If you’re in a situation where you need to say that to someone watching, shits already gone sideways.
It’s the international call to get your phone and start filming.
That show didn’t have enough of a run-time, lol.
The teetotaler’s version of “hold my beer”.
