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‘A Straight 50%’
Donald Trump's so over it.
By "it," I mean recalcitrance in Brussels, where EU officials aren't dem
I’m not sure why this hit me just this morning, but by all appearances and actions, Trump actually despises the United States. There’s nothing about the US he likes except it’s wealth and power. Which he is going about squandering at every opportunity. At times I feel like my country is already in the dustbin of history and a portrait of Jefferson Davis will be above every mantle from Sea to Shining Sea. Another thought I had right behind this one, is that it is no wonder Democracy is a failure. Half of the people are below iq90 and the another half are genetically authoritarian. It’s amazing we made it this far…
Well said. The sentiment is shared.
The problem seems to be a lack of democracy as the issue is one person wielding enormous power.
Yes, amazing.
Yes, well said. He has never been respected by anyone in his life. No one will support his businesses any longer. He doesn’t pay his debts. He doesn’t accept responsibility for anything. His daddy didn’t really like him, neither have any of his wives or business associates. All of his actions are aimed at hurting those who won’t bow to his whims. He is on a massive revenge trip to hurt all the people he can. He’s a white supremacist and an antisemite (much like Nixon) and all his actions are intended prove he is superior to everyone else. You couldn’t make up a better anti-hero if you tried.
To borrow a line from The Hunt for Red October: “This business will get out of control. It will get out of control, and we’ll be lucky to live through it.”
Every single day that Trump is president is a day where China looks like the best alternative for everyone else. There is literally an article in the Economist about how influencers are making China look cool. Since we’re dead set on fulfilling our empiric fall and decline, I guess everyone needs to start learning mandarin.
Can’t even let his 90 day pause play out. Emotional, impulsive, erratic, unreliable, fundamentally weak, and not here for long, is how peer powers see him.
Trump/advisers think the US has all the leverage, possessed of the largest consumer spending market ($18TR US vs $10TR EU vs $7TR China) and one of the lowest trade to GDP ratios.
If Trump’s other policies/behavior weren’t so unpopular, his fiscal policies so reckless, and his power so vulnerable (in the medium term) to market and consumer verdict, and if he wasn’t so out of his depth in international deal-making, he would be much better able to use that leverage.
“and not here for long”
Unfortunately there’s a Jr in the maga wings.
Did this dude get called by the market today?
Is this kid on the way to being exposed as a paper tiger?
He’s only been in office 4+ months. It’s exhausting! What will be left of our country after 3 1/2 more years of this sh!tshow?
Mercurial is a polite term. Totally demented is more apt.
Trump says the US trade deficit with EU is $250BN, but that is only the goods deficit. Including the services surplus, the US trade deficit with EU is only about $100BN (-ish, from 2023 BEA data) or about EUR 50BN (-sh, 2023 EU data).
I’m not a religious person at all. I don’t know what lies above or below us. That said, for someone who isn’t a “believer”, the only description I can come up for Trump is devil incarnate. This guy is wearing me out. The markets are becoming untradeable with this guy in office. Of course he feels emboldened to pick tariff fights again with stocks back around liberation day levels. Good thing most traders were already at the beach this morning or the trading day could have been worse.
Non-woke cis-tariffs gonna make us all rich!
No apparent follow through on this thunderbolt. Maybe this is simply an exercise in monetizing the power of market manipulation.