Just how stupid Trump was by imposing tariffs on Canada and Mexico is now fully exposed. Trump actually does not know the reason and is just acting on autopilot. Where are his advisers and strategic planners? Now Trump is basically walking back on his tariffs on these two countries that dared to retaliate.
Earlier, we were told that the tariffs were needed to punish these two countries that were ripping off the USA and stealing USA jobs by luring USA manufacturing especially to Mexico, with even agricultural machinery icon John Deere shifting some production out to Mexico to take advantage of lower wages and cost. Trump threatened to impose 200% tariffs on John Deere machinery made in Mexico and sold in the USA. This means also punishing USA farmers as well. This was the same mantra thrown against China then and now, having been accused of stealing USA jobs. Ironically, Canada had been selling highly discounted oil to USA and how could Canada even be said to be ripping the USA off?
When all these accusations failed to hold water and as a result of retaliations that were obviously detrimental to the USA, the Trump administration is now inventing new narratives to justify his actions, not due to these two countries stealing USA jobs, but surprisingly due to failing to control the influx of fentanyl into the USA. How does fentanyl influx into the USA have a bearing on USA jobs that needed tariffs to protect is an amazing look inside warped mindset?
Just as Trump does not know how tariffs are supposed to work, just because he came across that word and claims it is the most beautiful word in the English Language, he does not know for what reason he is using tariffs against Canada and Mexico.
Having said that, even if manufacturing entities do return to the USA, Trump and his advisers are well behind the curve when it comes to understanding how factories are being operated today, with robots doing most of the jobs done in the past by thousands of workers manually. Job creation is not going to be what Trump expects, with automation now the norm elsewhere. A factory could be running with just a dozen workers manning the operation of machines making the products, not thousands of workers as in the past.
With people like Trump running the USA, China does not even need other enemies of the USA to help its cause. The USA is just self-destructing right before our eyes.
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The USA economy is in deep trouble, with a recession imminent. Wall Street is also tanking with Tesla, Nvidia and Microsoft losing big. But Trump and his gang will just print more money to prop up Wall Street, and presto where is the recession? Everything is going to be fine, so says Trump. The USA's GDP growth is all about printing more money to prop up Wall Street. Call it window-dressing if you like, but the fundamentals are just the opposite of reality.
The USA voters' cost of living in the USA is on the edge. Of course, saving Wall Street is the priority, not the ordinary people struggling with two or three jobs to survive. The land of bread and honey is no more being gloated. Groceries are going to be as expensive as well as calling an ambulance that could cost as much as US$2,000 or more.
Eggs are equally expensive in the USA now, and some people are said to be rearing chickens for their eggs. Trump is not interested in talking about egg prices anymore. He is placing more priority on his golfing. Life is really getting very egg-citing in the USA. Imagine that. With more retaliation by China, the USA agricultural sector is getting decimated, and food is going to be a National Security Issue for the USA as more farms go out of business. Myanmar was the rice bowl of South-East Asia at one time, but that is no longer the case. Never say never that the USA will fall into the same predicament.
A University education in the USA costs an arm and a leg, and takes a lifetime to pay off, if possible. Some Tik Tok refugees on Rednote are crying about their inability to pay off their education loans. Someone suggested they leave the USA to avoid paying their debt.
China is always touted as a communist country, with bad leaders or dictators, that cares little about its people. The Chinese Government in reality does everything better than the USA in caring for its citizens, building thousands of kilometers of high-speed railways, airports, ports, cheap transport, cheap university education, cheap healthcare, cheap groceries and lifting hundreds of millions out of poverty. Does that not indicate a government for the people, rather than a government of the 1%, by the 1% and for the 1%?
What has the USA Government done for USA voters? More homeless people, drug problems blamed on others, falling infrastructures, expensive university education, expensive and unattractive investment destination for manufacturing that needs tons of subsidies, tariff threat and arm twisting to get factory owners to relocate to the USA to face ruin.
Dotard Trump NOT acting Auto Pilot!
He thought that the whole world is his Bankrupted Corporation where He shouted orders and everyone obeys.
Hires and Fires!
He does NOT think thru his numbskull brain but thru his arsehole!😜
Arsehole is for farting. Which ironically is what Trump is doing, just farting.
Trump's arsehole is jealous of his mouth, where so much shit is flowing out.
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