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2. No he doesn't. He's an idiot. His tiny brain is focused not on tariffs and free trade, but on trade deficits.

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Fri May 23, 2025, 09:38 PM

May 23

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We buy coffee from countries that don’t buy our yachts, planes, or tanks. So, we have a trade deficit with them. A tariff will raise its price, but those countries will still not buy tanks from us and we cannot grow coffee (except for Hawaii, which has really good coffee by the way ).

He’s an idiot who obsesses about some random fact he hears and it rolls around in his empty head causing him to make stupid policies.

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So when the EU declares 50% tariffs on US imports.... [View all] OAITW r.2.0 May 23 OP

Doesn't matter... 2naSalit May 23 #1

No he doesn't. He's an idiot. His tiny brain is focused not on tariffs and free trade, but on trade deficits. surfered May 23 #2

Brilliant, concise point. OAITW r.2.0 May 23 #6

I'm not familiar with our EU trade. Littlered May 23 #3

Our EU Trade was growing, a lot, under Biden OAITW r.2.0 May 23 #7

Here you go: Tarzanrock May 23 #4

I'm starting to believe these threats are a front for market manipulation... appmanga May 23 #5

It was rather telling in the oval office DFW May 24 #8

Maybe the market is saying. "Fuck Trump" and we are still investing in markets that make sense. OAITW r.2.0 May 24 #10

My folks would have been blown away with the current state of the Republican Party. OAITW r.2.0 May 24 #12

Why would they do that? I have read that tariffs are just a tax on your own people. Why would the EU kelly1mm May 24 #9

Really? OAITW r.2.0 May 24 #13

Yes really. Why would the EU tax its own people because President Trump taxed us? nt kelly1mm May 24 #15

The tax will be paid by a reduction in sales. EU has a $235BB trade surplus with the US. OAITW r.2.0 May 25 #16

Reciprocal tariffs are imposed Tarzanrock May 24 #11

It's killing the world economy. OAITW r.2.0 May 24 #14