There is also another fiasco being floated by Trump about imposing a US$1.5 million levy per call against ships built in China calling at USA controlled ports, or a US$500 thousand levy per call on any shipowner having any ship in its fleet built in China calling at any USA controlled ports.
Trump does not think it necessary for the USA to start building ships first before starting to fire his salvo. That will probably take five to ten years to be easible, considering the education and training needed to build ships and he knows he will no longer be around. Trump thinks that just firing pot shots will hit the Chinese target anyway.
The whole idea is just trying to pull a hocus pocus against China without considering that the USA does not build commercial ships anymore and does not have the capacity to build ships of the numbers that the world needs. There is not a shipowner in the world without a Chinese built ship in its fleet today.
For a start if the levy plan is implemented, shipowners having Chinese built ships in their fleet will avoid calling at more ports in the USA and instead unloading at one port instead of three and leaving importers to foot the bill for land transport for the goods they bought. This is going to be a massive added cost for USA importers and eventually passed on to consumers. Who is going to suffer more?
The Trump administration basically does not consider the consequences of its actions, only plucking ideas from the air and expecting them to work. For Trump, everything is so simple and easy. Just do it and if it does not work, just do a U-turn and nobody gets blamed. And indeed, even the security leaks have yet to be blamed on someone with Trump calling it just a glitch. Why is National Security so much less important for the USA when it was the rage in the past, blaming China over every item as a security threat?
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With a low intellect, Trump still claims he is a 'stable genius'. He is indeed a stable genius - a stable genius in bankruptcies. Some are touting that bringing down the USA will be his 'mother of all bankruptcies'.
Trump has he 'Art of the Deal', which actually means the art of cheating others through declaring bankruptcies - six times in all, mind you. Trump has a long list of accolades that he is proud of - six bankruptcies, a convicted felon, scores of sexual misdeeds and yet here he is, the President of the USA. A wonderful country filled with wonderful voters.
Trump's cabinet pick is another gathering of clowns in a circus. We have seen the grotesque performance of J. D. Vance in Greenland and his racist remarks on China, Pete Hegseth over the security leaks, Peter Navorro and Scott Bessent on the tariff's confusion now unfolding.
What has not been on the news is the performance of Robert Kennedy Jr that has gone under the radar. He was an anti-vax proponent during COVID19 and now denying the undeniable. Now he is said to be doing another anti-vax move over the measles outbreak in the USA, claiming that vaccination provides no long-term effectiveness.
The other most ridiculous appointment was the Education Secretary, the 76- year-old former CEO of the World Wrestling Entertainment, Linda McMahon. Her main expertise is promoting a sports entertainment entity and education is nothing like entertainment promotion. She already made a blurred gaffe getting confused talking about AI and getting entangled with A1, a brand of sauce by Kraft.
The circus is getting more entertaining. Let us sit back and enjoy the clowns doing the rounds.
I think the antics of the Three Stooges pale in comparison to the present Trump Administration.
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