Hoooo boy, is Trump in a rage! I’m surprised he has any keys left on his phone after he scorches them with all his rants. He’s getting repetitive, though. It’s been a while since he’s come up with anything new. So, let’s get right to it with the cause. From The New Republic:
“Donald Trump is backed into a corner,” said MSNBC business host Stephanie Ruhle. “His grand plans of ‘tariffs, tariffs, tariffs,’ aren’t working. You’re seeing day in and day out more business leaders—whether it’s Warren Buffett, or Jamie Dimon, or Ken Griffin—on big global stages saying, ‘This is going to crush us economically.’ And then you’ve got congressmen, senators from every state, saying to this White House, ‘Our small businesses are strangling, are dying here.’ I’m not saying Donald Trump has changed what he thinks in his heart, but he’s backed into a corner and he needs to get off this crazy tariff train, and he knows it.”
I expect that it doesn’t help that she’s right, and that Trump doesn’t, in some tiny little recess of his tiny little brain, know it. I think that with all the news that is showing up more and more about how much of a disaster this has been, he *couldn’t* notice it. So he tries to cover it up with three dolls, five pencils, and everyone is going to be rich (as he promised in his campaign). Or, that we have a huge trade deficit, and by not getting anything, we’re saving all that money. It doesn’t work that way.
The economy is already crashing. Inflation and prices are going up, not down (as he also promised). I’m waiting for the unemployment numbers to start going up. We haven’t seen the effects that it should be showing from all those Federal workers getting canned, but I’m pretty sure it’s coming. But, back to the tariff debacle and the analysis that caused the most recent meltdown.
… But what’s most important is the language around China. A week ago, China was like, ‘We’re not showing up unless you lower the tariffs,’ and [they] didn’t. Forty-eight hours ago, Donald Trump said, ‘We’re not gonna lower the tariffs.’ Yesterday he said, ‘Yeah, maybe.’ And today things are softening even more..… Donald Trump is looking for some sort of exit here.”
“Look at the cargo ships coming into Seattle, the Port of Los Angeles; pick the port. We’re getting fewer and fewer ships with less and less cargo. And unless he turns this around, three weeks from now, you walk into a store and we’re going to have a Covid-like supply chain crisis, and Trump is looking for an exit.”
Per the article, Ruhle brilliantly exposed the president’s waffling on tariffs, introducing them with strongman language and massive guarantees while the reality is far more uncompelling. This supposed deal with the UK? Only in the planning stages, and nothing has been written down. The 10% currently on their products is still higher than it was before. And thus, it will still continue to hurt the American consumer. Ah, and he is announcing a steep 65% reduction in China tariffs before even going to the negotiating table. I’ll leave you with the verbatim reaction from Trump that happens to (still) have me laughing.
“I just watched an exhausted, highly neurotic Stephanie Ruhle spew LIES about Tariffs, as do many others, in order not to give me the Victory that they all see coming. Few people know Stephanie Ruhle, but I do, and she doesn’t have what it takes,” he wrote, personally attacking the MSNBC host. “Our Deal with the United Kingdom yesterday was AMAZING for both Countries and, in addition to everything else, British Airways just ordered $10 Billion Dollars worth of new Boeing planes. We’re going to make a fortune with Tariffs, only smart people understand that, and Stephanie was never known as a ‘High IQ’ person. MSDNC has become the Voice of the Democrat Party, and they should be treated as a Political Advocate with all of the Taxes and Penalties therefrom. Their Ratings are terrible, but Brian Roberts and his crew should be forced to TELL THE TRUTH. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
Please note, as per the article, that Trump chose not to engage with any of Ruhle’s arguments, instead choosing to focus on her demeanor and her workplace. From me? Sad. Thanks for sticking with me!
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he went after Lawrence O’Donnell too. They just hold up the mirror to Trump & he can’t take it lol
He’s a spoiled whining toddler. It doesn’t look good on a two year old. At his age it’s grotesque. Baby needs a Depends change.
Oh, Scott, you about killed me with this one HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!!!
Yup! I saw that later, or would have added it in. “Clown” lolol!