Donald Trump has continually insisted that deals over his tariffs are coming.

Donald Trump claimed Tuesday that the U.S. doesn’t “have to sign” any trade deals, inadvertently admitting that his administration hasn’t made any progress during the 90-day pause on his disastrous tariffs.

During a tense meeting to discuss tariffs with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, the president attempted to move the goal posts on actually completing any agreements with foreign countries.

“Everyone says, ‘When, when, when, are you going to sign deals?’ We don’t have to sign deals!” Trump said.

  • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    What’s that, Lassie?

    All he’s done is ruin everything and make the world worse for everybody?

    He’s crashing the US economy?

    He’s doing hundreds of years worth of damage to the country?

    Millions of innocent people’s lives are ruined?

    Millions of innocent people outside of the country will probably needlessly die because of him?

    What’s that, Lassie?

    Huh? It almost sounds French.

    Oh, guillotine.

    GOOD DOG!

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    "We don’t have to sign deals!” Trump said.

    Why even bother signing a deal that everyone knows you’re going to break

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    If we could get someone Trump listens to saying that the United States is falling behind Norway in dilithium mining, and state it confidently, he would 100% be demanding Norway’s dilithium operations the next day.

    We should find a way to do this.

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    Well, we all know how incapable Trump is regarding business and economy. Basically any halfway professional diplomat or trade official will basically run him into the next wall, head first.

    China is only the first of many countries where he will learn that he is playing with adults for the first time. These are not random bootlicking apprentices he can fire at a whim.

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    How many MAGA folks will ever see this? Probably very few. And most of those few will dismiss it without a second thought.

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    most of the countries right now are already working around the tariffs, once its done , if trump decides to rescind all the tariffs, most of it wont come back every, or at leas it will be so minimal that it wont affect anything.

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    I’m really hoping that after enough people yell at him about how much money they are losing, he will just drop the tariffs and wonder off to the next disaster.

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    I still can’t fully wrap my head around just how stupid he is. It surprises me, every time.

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    He also brought in 9, maybe even 10 trillion dollars to the US! No other president has even brought in 1 trillion! Did you know that?

    I really wish the camera didn’t keep focusing on Trump, I wanted to see Carney’s reactions throughout.

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    If us Americans survive all this…

    Well, here’s your hyberbolic hypothetical argument for euthanasia… realized as an actual case study.

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    “We don’t have to sign deals. They have to sign deals with us. They want a piece of our market, we don’t want a piece of their market. We don’t care about their market. They want a piece of our market,” Trump rambled.

    “Trump rambled” is the best attribution for trump quotes.

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      This is what happens when you mainline American Exceptionalism for 80 years - It rots your brain.

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        Because his economic thinking is less advanced than David Ricardo’s, and Ricardo died 200 years ago. Ricardo showed the imbecility of attempting to have a pairwise balance of trade for every trading partner, in simple terms, though probably not simple enough for Trump to understand, even if he attempted to learn.

        As an economist recently observed, my balance of trade with my barber is negative: so what?

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        also like… literally the reason for tariffs: because people want international goods and nobody wants yours

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        Poor soybean farmers hearing that when maybe 40% of their crop ends up in Chyyy-nah

        Your base mighttt care about their market lil bro