he really, truly thinks that stopping trade with China entirely is good he doesn’t care how much damage it does to the economy or how many businesses go under - he thinks that if Americans buy anything from China we are losing money so it should stop there’s no twelve dimensional chess here
It isn't even 1 dimensional checkers
the entire GOP is complicit this is exactly what they want or they'd stop him, they've had 3 months correct explanation is not Hanlon's razor, but Occam's
They're afraid of ending up like the Jersey mayor or Ozturk. Intimidation works, especially when the opposition is Schumer bitching like an old prospector and refusing to let any more passionate Dem take the reins.
Does he really think that they lost a Trillion $. When I buy a car or something - I don’t think that I lost money. I got a car. Is he really that stupid? Are Americans that stupid?
If a Canadian Prime Minister said something so obviously stupid… they would be forced to resign in a week.
He really is. Even stupid Americans are not that stupid, they are just tribal. Reagan, Dubya... wait there may be a pattern here...
These crazy trumpers think he has some sort of wild strategy that will bring back American jobs or make everything so cheap that we will all be rolling in riches. They brush off the crazy things b/c they think he knows what he is doing. I have never understood it.
It doesn’t stop him from having what he wants for dinner which is usually a big Mac
Because he's a fuckwit.
Chess?!! He's a fucking moron.
He really believes that if you bought a car for $20,000 you now have a trade imbalance with the car company and they're ripping you off and they need to buy something from you for $20,000. He really doesn't notice that in this scenario that you now have a car. He really is this stupid.
Of course, reality will not be so obliging. The reality: the trade was there because sellers and buyers agreed to it. Killing the trade will hurt both buyers and sellers. What will happen when reality corrects his stupid wrong ideas? We're about to see.
No, it's sheer stupidity
Is the trillion "lost" to China, perchance, the amount Americans spent buying products made in China? Since Americans got stuff in exchange for the money, I don't know what the loss is.
Why do you say "he thinks"? He doesn't think. And it's extremely unlikely he thinks stopping trade with China is good. He knows it's bad. He wants to do bad things.
Someone explained tariffs too him & he took the way he did when he was told bleach kills COVID on surfaces.
He thinks international trade is some kind of trip to Bed Bath and Beyond. If you can make a circuit of the shop without spending money, you've won.
Not doing business unless it’s maga merchandise!
He thinks America is HIS and sending money to "other countries" without them sending money back is "losing money". He actually thinks even though America has more money, other countries need to spend back as much as America spends or it's "lost"
It’s not that he doesn’t care. He’s out to destroy this country. When he says he wants to make America great again, he means the opposite.
Trump has no knowledge of trade. What an ignoramus.
If a democratic president did and said half of this the stock market wouldn’t tanked 50% and not recovered People in power really think Trump is this genius economics guy that will magically bring back the 2019 economy, but with even less regulation and even lower taxes for the rich
It's like he has regressed to the point where he thinks a hand with spread fingers has more fingers than a hand where the fingers aren't spread.
He truly has no understanding of how global markets work.
He is irredeemably, insufferably, breathtakingly stupid.
He's in the corner eating paste.
Where will he get his golf clubs or MAGA gear if he stops trade with China?
it's like he thinks we're buying Chinese when American-made versions of everything exist
Was it Terry Pratchett who said "He had a mind like a steel trap. It could hold one thing only, and it didn't let go of it."...?
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Wreck it, chaos, bring them all down to 10% and claim winning deals, remove tax on rich while you tax Americans with the tariff. Stupid population if they fall for this. All the while everyone in and around the admin grifts billions, and legalize racism m, flout law and constitution. Fascist State
He can’t read. He’s a “As Seen on TV!” President.
What about all the MAGA merch? Every bit of it has a touch of China in some form is he willing to give up that income? Time to give grandpa his meds and put him to bed.
A thief always thinks he is being robbed!
We're checking everything regularly we buy to see where it was made. If in China, we know we're fucked.
He wrote literally "trade is bad" on his speech notes once.
WE ARE FUCKED
We aren't fucked - not yet, at least! We need everyone off the sidelines to resist this before it's too late.
Does Ivanka get an exception? Doesn't she have deals with China?
Everything is zero sum to Trump. Also it's no surprise he doesn't seem to comprehend that things can have different values to different entities.
He is clueless and the world is paying the price for it.
Still lying Still gaslighting Still believed 8647
This is his 3,4,8,12 dimensional chess:
There goes drug prices. Now JFK and the new Surgeon General can come up with herbal remedies for all. Nothing against herbal remedies, some work great, others not so. We have no standards,dose chart, or even strong studies showing effectiveness. Like anything some can cause more harm than good.
Can one person in the GOP explain Trade to the felon dummy
No. There is a 1000000000% tariff on accurate information entering his brain.
👏👏😂😂😂🥴
He thinks money is a commodity with inherent value, rather than being a general exchange-value form.
Even Amazon's Jef Bezos will get problems with his cheap stuff.
When is someone going to ask him a follow up to explain that math?
IDIOT
He is unbelievably ignorant and his sycophants are even stupider.
Look. As an American who is deeply dedicated to market capitalism, I cannot see anything wrong with one person deciding whom I may and may not do business with. That's just the way Adam Smith designed it. A command economy.
China just needs to unilaterally shut down or take over all Trump businesses. End of story.
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Another idiot
Administration of Idiots
Why was Trump celebrated in the 1980s and 1990s? He never had a clue about business and finance. And only became rich from loopholes and corruption.
1) There's no such thing as bad publicity for certain people 2) The Apprentice was a fun shtick that clearly too many people took for "reality" rather than absurdity.
80s and 90s came from a different media age. Pre- “Jackass” or Tom Green where people didn’t just behave like ridiculous caricatures and embarrass themselves from finance / business. Trump created that role (along with Robin Leech). So the NY press was hungry for it. Here was a guy they could
Pretend was in business who they could get a quote from; unlike Milken or “Gecko”. (The gap had already been met in entertainment - Liberace; and politics, Reagan, the evangelical preacher too) but other fields still had some decorum.
Mainstream media propped him up for decades as this Manhattan playboy rich guy, but most people considered him a disgusting joke, but then NBC gave him the dumbest show ever, The Apprentice, and manufactured the image of a smart businessman to market it, and we know what happened from there.
He was mostly made fun of then, take a look at bloom county for example
I sort of feel bad for the guys that developed The Apprentice... They thought that they were just making a frivolous, throw away reality TV show (which is a totally reasonable thing to think) but they were also rehabilitating his image.
We're all just kind of sliding down the universe slide with very little control over which reality we end up in. Tony Hinchcliff nearly saved democracy with one shitty joke, but I don't give him any credit for it.
Yeah, I'm not going to get angry at them for accidentally causing a fire in the gasoline and matches factory...
Well, I'm not above getting mad at them. I'm just saying no reason to feel bad for them.
I've got too many other things to be mad about.
Hell, goddamn SESAME STREET made a parody of him the villain of the day on MULTIPLE occasions!
Or the Trump Princess storyline from Doonesbury. “Look at the quality!”
Yes, there is. He can only count to 12.
Holy shit does he actually believe in mercantilism
How can one person have so much stupidity??
You are 100% accurate. He has a destruction instinct. I think he may be excited to see it all unfold.
It's total descent into the depths of his narcissistic zero-sum pathology.
he wants everything to be made here and he wants to own the company that makes it.
He is clueless. Other countries will buy goods from China, so they aren't likely to suffer overmuch. If we had safe and efficient facilities and a workforce that would be content to toil in factories for Chinese wages, then his plans might make sense economically. However, that isn't the case.
What gets me are the sycophantic morons standing behind him. They know he's an idiot. They know he's talking absolute bullshit, but, hey, a job's a job.
I'm afraid that nowhere near enough people have absorbed the idea that he knows that a lot of MAGA people will believe anything he says, no matter what. Forever.
He bankrupted CASINOS…that should explain his grasp of business
Oh, yeah, that makes sense 🤦♀️
Those tacky MAGA caps are going to cost a lot more.
He has always only had the ability to think transactionally, a sign of immature intellect. Now he has no no ability to conceptualize import or impact of actions beyond the transaction, and babbles utter fucking nonsense half the time. All pretty common with severe cognitive decline.
He is the dumbest mother fucker in the world and 75 million Americans think he is the greatest thing ever. Half of the electorate are simply brainless. Don’t know how we come back from that.
I came here say the exact same thing. Dumbest MFer ever. It's absolutely astounding.
Jeffrey Sachs has a viral bid on youtube on just that. Worth watching, lays it all out.
It’s brain damage.
They 2nd dimension is he knows this causes harm, wants to cause harm, and lies
He's not playing chess. He's not playing checkers. He's eating the pieces off the board.
The biggest idiot on our planet. Files bankruptcy 6 times. Is currently bankrupting our country while Congress, the real branch in charge of the purse, sits by and watches it happen.
Hindsight is a bitch. An administration 50 years in the planning. NOBODY saw this $h!t$#0w on the horizon? Worst reality show EVER America. 😪
Maybe. He’s also a shameless liar who wouldn’t be above making a lame argument like this even if he didn’t believe it. He said the good parts of the economy are his economy and the bad parts are Biden’s economy. He will package any combination of words that get him the result he wants.
Liar
The answer is literally: “Yes, he really is that stupid.”
Nope. Thick as a brick.
All his merchandise is made there. Make it make sense... I dare someone to try.
He really is as dumb as dogshit
He says “we” like any of us would ever see a dime of money they supposedly “save.”
This immensely benefits China in the long run, and China knows that. Trump has effectively removed the US as the center of global trade and handed the reigns to China.
Is there any chance someone could say we aren't losing, we are buying goods.
How does he not get that spending money is not the same as losing money.
That’s what passes for logic in this administration. “Hoard all your money, you won’t lose any! Of course, you also won’t have any food, clothes, furniture, shampoo … but you’ll have all your money!”
I wonder what China did to Trump and his family especially Ivanka. This seems too personal because we all know he doesn’t give a shit what China did to America.
I absolutely DO NOT believe this guy has a degree of any sort from the Wharton School of Business. Why doesn't someone hound him to prove it, like he *hounded* Brack Obama for his birth certificate. I would love to see that degree and his transcript. #WhartonSchoolofBusiness
Didn’t Ivanka and Donald pay more in taxes to China than the US? Of course they don’t practice what they preach
Just the dumbest motherfucker alive. As president.
Keep repeating this, his brain is an abacus with one rung.
Do you really think Trump thinks of Americans and American enterprises? He is only interested in his own businesses and those of his inner circle.
We didn’t lose SHIT
If America was so rich from 145% tariff why did the 🍑🍄 say he would go to 80%???? Him LIED? SHOCKER! Trump just negotiated with himself publicly China and China's tariffs that Trump put on China 🤔🤔🤔 www.cnn.com/2025/05/09/b...
Kiss off red hats and neckties, then...
His daughter already has her parents so what does he care?
🍊🍊🍊SCUM "I am ruler of the World"
This is actually similar to how a lot of accountants (and politicians) in the UK think. -You need to cut spending. -But then our service will suffer and we'll lose business. -That's okay once your income and outgoings are both zero then your books will be forever perfectly balanced.
Does no one dare tell him? China didn’t pay those tariffs. Importers and ultimately consumers did. Electing a moron for President has consequences.
I’m running a deficit with the grocery stores. I’ll just have to stop buying. That’ll learn them.
Is his level at even 3rd grade????
He needs to return to school; he has no clue about the economy.
This past month has made something clear to me about Trump that wasn't necessarily before: he truly sees the act of handing money to another human being for any reason whatsoever as 'losing.'
What happens to anyone other than himself is irrelevant. He will still be grifting, golfing and living off of our dime while the World economy collapses.😡
trump is and will continue to completely fuck this up .. but like his golf tournaments the republican regime will make him grand champion extraordinaire best ever - meanwhile there will be high unemployment and bankruptcies of small and large businesses while people can not afford anything.
Moronic brain
If you know a “swing” voter, it’s plausible you know someone as dumb as Trump. Otherwise, you don’t.
He's a stupid man, made worse by dementia.
He actually is really stupid
It's ONE dimensional chess: he took the king and stuck it in his ass.
When is anyone going to stop kissing his ass and explain to him the basic economics 101
No gold must leave the kingdom!
Lost? He has no understanding of trade, nevermind free trade that Republicans used to endorse! I remember the Chicago Mercantile Exchange banners along LaSalle Steet: Free Markets for Free Minds. Pffft.
And he thinks we’re losing money that way. He still thinks us having a trade deficit with them is losing money to them.
This crazu President talks as if he is not educated. He brags about his corrupt stint at U pen which we are told was masterminded by his corrupt filthy rich dad. Any educated person will tell you if America doesn't trade with China the $1 trillion won't sit idle at the US treasury.
Yes, why did Republican president Nixon start this anyway?
I wish someone would ask him that he pays for a haircut is he in deficit because the other guy didn't buy something from him or does he just make the barber buy some crap from him
They keep talking about the auto industry but farmers and small businesses are also suffering
> he doesn’t care how much damage it does to the economy or how many businesses go under Honestly, he couldn't possibly understand it. He's too stupid, too full of himself and too old to ever fully grasp the consequences of his actions. And it's only getting worse.
But everything he pitches for sale to his MAGA/GQP/WCN Extremist Cult members and sycophants is ”Made in China”. He’s a goddamn HYPOCRITE.
The stupid is so mind-boggling
Trump is begging China to talk to him but China is telling him to go fuck himself until he drops the tariffs. When he drops the tariffs then we will think about talking NOT BEFORE!!!!!!!
The phrase it’s like playing chess with a pigeon is more like his level of chess thinking.
Sad to say, it’s going to take some suffering for any change to happen. Right now, his people are nervous but not stopping him. When shelves are empty nationwide and prices surge b/c demand is up, maybe they will actually DO something.
That's what he wants. He needs civil unrest to go further.
He's not even playing tic-tac-toe. He's eating the crayons.
I saw a bloke saying "Good. no more cheap China shit" I looked up Ryobi & Milwaukee tools. Ryobi is a subsidiary of Techtronic Industries (TTI), a Hong Kong-based company that also manufactures other brands like Ridgid & Milwaukee Tool made primarily in China, plus Vietnam, Mexico, and Germany.
his baby mind equates paying for something and losing money which is why he stiffs every contractor and vendor
Well, he IS the guy who thinks a person is born with all the energy they'll ever have in life, like a battery, and if you waste it you die sooner and that's why he doesn't believe in exercise.
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Not even one dimensional checkers!
Well it does mean no more red MAGA hats, so there's that
people keep wanting there to be a goal, something he's trying to accomplish with this shit, and they don't want to accept that "there's no more trade with China" is in large part the goal
I think he genuinely looks at spending on Chinese goods as “losing money” for decades he refused to pay contractors who worked on his properties for him not ripping off the other guy makes you a sucker, even when you’re just paying a fair price for goods/services rendered
He has no understanding of international trade at all. How many people got paid off at Wharton?
I still think the goal is chaos
It makes a lot of sense, he is so known for not paying his bills that he has a hard time finding competent help. He would rather live in a falling down golden tower than pay anything to fix it.
I cannot believe that the markets don’t react to these statements. I think they’re in for a shock when shortages hit and Q2 data comes in, but it’s just… I don’t understand what the market is expecting to happen
The Markets are a crowd of degenerate gambling addicts. They all know a crash is coming, but there is big money in guessing exactly when it all collapses, so they are hanging in betting they'll be the ones to sell at just the right moment.
Yep It used to be people made money trading the stocks - and they still do. Now more money is made by people betting stocks will fall...so Trump repeatedly sabotaging the markets is making them mega rich. They love it. Disaster EMPOWERS these people. Only issue is if it crashes hard enough, the
money they're making in profits will rapidly turn out to be valueless. It's no good making a $bn when you find out that actually only buys you a 18-pack of toilet paper because you hyperinflationed the economy forcing the face of stocks in the toilet and they've drowned.
exactly this
Honestly, I think they keep expecting a "psych!" or that basically someone soft 25ths him but they keep discovering oh wait, 2nd Trump admin is staffed by soft-as-shit sycophants.
I think it’s this plus the general “dudes can not admit they were wrong, particularly when catastrophically wrong” because I’m sure a lot of Wall Street types voted for this thinking the sexism and racism would only benefit them and he’d make them rich like before despite seeing the warning signs.
Finance is dominated by conservatives. They believe the bullshit, too. The market is just people.
Too bad there aren’t any checks and balances written into our constitution. Yep, real shame there’s no way to stop him.
that may be giving him too much credit.
m.economictimes.com/magazines/pa...
His brain is God complex, sadism, and racism
Or that China bends to his knee and does whatever he wants even though they have way more leverage over him than he has over them.
No, his goal is to "end up" with at least a 10% tariff on everything imported from China. Which he will then use as a justification for lowering income taxes on the wealthy. It's a means of transferring more tax burden onto lower- and middle-income people.
yes, but he doesn't really want that trade with China to be replaced by trade with Vietnam / Taiwan / Japan / India / EU either.
It’s not sustainable in the long run. The economy is going to catch up with him when businesses start going under. He can’t fake his way out of that.
By then he'll have burned it all down which is all he wants.
People really have a hard time accepting Trump is this dumb and it's like "um. yes. he is. And probably dumber"
good brain juice because he is the decider and gets to hold his talk show every day is the goal.
Eventually the markets are going to realize this and things will become "fun"
He was telegraphing this for decades and everybody just pretends there's 5D chess because the truth is too idiotic. - "Why do you have these views [on trade]?" - "I just do," Trump reportedly replied. "I've had these views for 30 years." reason.com/2018/09/05/t...
The goal is massive graft and corruption and 🇨🇳 doesn't need to play that game with him.
It's the same logic of growing your own food to stop "losing money" every time you go to the supermarket. But you don't know how to nor can't do it... So you starve 🤷
Only idiots want there to be a goal. This idiot is a failed businessman who thinks he’s smarter than anyone else. He has no goal!! No one can believe a word he says.
I am trying to understand his argument but it makes no sense unless he is saying that barter is the only acceptable form of trade, which is insane
He thinks that we are losing his money to China. He owns the us and wants to make money. The things WE buy aren’t his, but we used HIS money. It’s that simple.
Maybe the real 4d chess is all the stupid we made along the way.
Trump can’t find enough ways to show the world what an ignorant fool he is.
😳😳😳 what kind of thinking is this. Compensatory spending ???
What is this lost trillion you speak of?? So misleading, we willingly bought items from China …. Did you think they should just give us the products we order?? Common sense says no. Do you have any common sense???
If only he had to pay for his own Adderall, we might see how bad his cognitive decline really is once Ronny Jackson runs out of space for "Art of the Deal" books.
Where is he going to get his red hats?
This is similar to the math that this administration did on decreasing fentanyl deaths, which was completely bizarre.
We are so fucked.
And yet ALL of his promotional crap, from the hats to the guitar, are made in China.
Nope he is a total moron
The orange turd did NOT go to business school. He does NOT understand basic economics and trade theory. DUMB as a rock.
Will someone please please pleases give him an economic lesson. NOW. THIS MUST END
No wonder he's notorious for stiffing contractors. He thinks "buying" is "losing".
Biden Biden Biden
His stupidity knows no bound.
He can call it tariffs till the cows come home, but it's really a boycott and the world is responding in kind, boycotting America. The only card he holds is the ability to boycott the world. He doesn't hold any cards to force the world to submit to submit to his whims.
I saw a compelling argument that he hasn’t had an original idea since the 80s so he probably still thinks this is just like the Auto Wars where Japanese imports were taking market share from American cars
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Donald Trump is exactly who Fran Lebowitz told us he was. “You don’t know anyone as stupid as Donald Trump. You just don't.”
He doesn't know his own red hats are made in China too or does he actually want ppl to stop buying those too?
It's been pretty clear that his number of chess dimensions is 1. That allows for exactly one situation, which where someone is in his way.
He’s not even playing checkers. Mans just sets up the board, flips it and pretends he won.