Join institutional investors, analysts and strategists from the world's largest banks: Subscribe today
Already have an account? log in
‘Take It Or Leave It’
"You can take it or leave it."
That's what Donald Trump's going to tell the penguins of Heard Islan
Bessent said will be extensions, Trump said ultimata imminent, US will punch down on weak trading partners, TACO on strong ones.
As I told a Trump voter in March, “the problem we have is people assume Trump actually knows what he’s doing. He doesn’t, and trying to make sense of his words and actions within the context that he must know what he’s doing is how we end up in trouble”.
He of course scoffed.
The Trump voters I know have doubled down on “Trump is the smartest human being ever born on this planet ” belief. The worse it gets, the more they hang in there for the koolade.
I was a continuous subscriber to the Wall St Journal from Oct, 1967 through the month of Nov last year. I finally got tired of the current editorial board writing as though they wanted the world to know just how off-base and cowardly they were. I really didn’t miss my lack of contact until recently. Recently something somehow changed and one or two folks outed themselves as actual readers and writers. They must have figured out they could criticize the king and not be thrown out of their office windows by a private Presidential button man. I may have to rethink my decision.
In regards to the statement: “We’re going to be sending letters out in about a week and a half, two weeks…” As we learned from Trump 1.0, every time he says something is going to happen ‘in a couple of weeks’, it never transpires.
That would be disappointing to the penguins. They have been waiting some time for the mail.
H-Man, the new term is “TAMAM’ – Trump Always Makes a Mess.