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this is the most dumbest fucking idiot leader of any country in the world right now i swear

The real reason?

Apple, Intel, and other execs bribed him during an overpriced dinner.

This whole tariff thing has nothing to do with the country or international relations or manufacturing or whatever.

It's just his latest personal grift. He just now has the power to say "every CEO in the world must personally give me a bribe or I'll continue doing some really stupid shit."

So he's fucking over american manufacturing of industrial machinery by tarifing raw goods but not end results? It gets dumber all the time.

I guess he bought enough shares of Apple now that he drove the stock price down. Way to manipulate the market for your buddies.

and MAGA was like, "HOORAY TRUMP IS SO AWESOME! see. i told you tariffs would only be temporary"

fuck joke of stock manipulation

In short, Trump admitted defeat without admitting it. The goods that matter will be allowed to pass. China will probably also reduce something on their side.

To save face, Trump will continue to hinder trade of bamboo mats and sex toys until they work out a formal way of de-escalating.

Jesus fucking Christ. At this point I want him to go all in on tariffs and actually hold on so at least I know what's coming. The fucking indecisiveness and Randomness is literally driving me insane.

We are putting tarrifs on stuff we buy from you, because you make too much money on us. But we are going to remove tarrifs from the stuff that we buy from you, because we need them.

Everything from China now has Raspberry pi pico taped to it.

Nintendo ninjas got to him. This man is completely compromised by the Mushroom Kingdom.

I would love to see China put an export tax on those products equal to Trump's dropped tariffs.

Even when he happens to make a correct decision, the decision-making process is pure chaos.

Just think about how chaotic things were during COVID. People weren't allowed to leave their homes. Restaurants were laying off all their staff. Many tourist attractions were completely shut down. Airlines were flying empty planes around just so they didn't lose their airport slots. People switched from spending locally to buying things online, but China was also dealing with COVID, so that made manufacturing and shipping chaotic too. The ports were completely screwed, with completely full ships sitting in the port waiting weeks to unload.

Despite all that, economic uncertainty in Trump's 2nd term is twice as bad. It's literally off the charts.

Nobody can make any reasonable long-term plans because everything might change depending on the mad king's whims.

And, last time things went back to normal because this was a worldwide pandemic and there wasn't anybody to blame for it. This time, everyone knows that this is Trump's fault, and that he was elected with widespread support from the American people. I don't think things are going back to normal after this.

What’s the matter, Tannen? Chicken?

Ahh, so that's how this is going to go.

First you tell the world how big your dick is, then you realize you might not be all that competitive in the dick-size arena so you start walking that shit back. Pretty soon here we'll be hearing about lil' Donny's third thumb in tariff form before he finally admits he was dickless all along and puts forth only the most token of efforts to attempt to retain some sense of dignity.

Shows how unplanned this whole thing is.

So non-essentials are exempt, but food products are fully taxed?

Tim Apple in shambles rn

How odd to be cheering for China to stick to their guns.

Wow, he did not only blink first, he did it in record time, too.

Now the whole world can learn how to deal effectively with this would-be strongman.

There must be a lot of lobbying going on behind the scenes at the moment!

You have 90 days to save your businesses dear Billionaires! They will soon open a bribing office to keep track of the corruption and agreements made during this period