Question: Why did US put big tariffs on India despite major national interest in cultivating a strategic counterweight to China and trying to isolate Russia? Answer: Because the US president lied that he fixed India-Pakistan and India wouldn’t go along with the lie. (Seriously, that’s the answer)
#ETTD
also, he's stupid
Jesus
Because of Jesus ?
No It's an expression in my country When we're gobsmacked we invoke the Man Above 🙏🏼 Not blasphemous, a slightly arcane verbal tradition A sort of prayer if you like (A longer version might be: Jesus Help Us All, what in the name of God is this latest gobsh#tery? )
So, it’s just an expression like our « Bon dieu » or « nom de dieu » (Which is more blasphemy) thank you for explaining.
Oulala ... Ooooof... Sacrebleu... Etc etc Mercis Lady Diana 🙌🏼 ( #AllezLesBleus ) 🙏🏼🙏🏼😁😁
Yep
Before the Ukraine war, Russian oil accounted for just 0.2% of India’s crude imports. By mid-2025, this share had risen to 35–40%, making Russia India’s largest oil supplier. India is the 2nd largest importer of Russian oil, behind China. This is why the tariffs are imposed. Why lie???
Seriously? What is the point of lying about the tariffs? India is being tariffed because they are a major purchaser of Russian gas and oil, which is funding the Russian aggression against Ukraine. WTF are you trying to do?
I bet my bottom dollar those tariffs would be reduced to oh I don't know almost zero if modi was nominate trump for a Nobel.
And has verbal diarrhea about it because he wants a Nobel Prize. Penis envy because President Obama received one.
Not just lied. He wanted Modi to endorse the lie and nominate him for Nobel peace price. When Modi declined the thin-skinned bozo's feelings got hurt, so he increased the tariffs.
Not to mention that the twice-impeached criminally seditious traitor will do ANYTHING that his mancrush Putin wants him to do. He's a spineless blob of jello in that evil war criminal's hands.
And ... Indian people are brown. #nopotus is a racist pig.
A painfully accurate reminder of how sick the sociopath-with-Narcissistic-Personality-Disorder-in-Chief is.
…and because the 🍊💩🤡 makes a box of rocks look like it’s as smart as Einstein.
or tries to anyway
Does this refer to Melania?
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Modi also wouldn't go along w advocating for Trump to get a Nobel Peace Prize for the same conflict. So here you have India paying much higher tariffs @ 50% than Ru @10% which is arguably a huge destabilizing factor for its neighbors & countries globally. Trump is a chicken s*** & scared of Putin.
Please get on the phone or e-mail and tell your reps in DC what you think about tariffs. It only takes a few minutes and it doesn't cost any money. We don't need money in politics. We just need people to participate. www.nationalfinancialplan.com
I love it when other countries call him a liar. Unfortunately, those that need to hear this, won't. Or is they do, they will not believe it.
🇫🇷 doesn't call him a liar anymore: They just diffuse the videos as journalists hold their ribs from splitting their stitches & wipe away their tears.
Petty Betty.
This is the makings of either an impeachment or fraud or treason trial and a number of lawsuits too and need think on but reality management and hybrid warfare and media complicity and coup and country ending cheerleading and need think on.
Thank you—was wondering that one myself.
The S. Asian US diaspora used to be over 90% Democrat. This shifted w/Hindu Nationalist propaganda & there was an idea (amongst these people) that Indians were somehow white adjacent as opposed to (also) brown. I hope the tariffs (and the immigration insanity) serve as a wake up call.
Huh? I’ve found we’ve shifted left now that reasonable republicans are all but archaic.
We might in 2026 but no. 2024 was 35% Trump. My brother lives in a wealthy area w/a really high Indian American demo. Their neighborhood voted 50/50 which is an extreme but there’s been a lot of anti liberal propaganda seeping in from India.
Aided by another BRICS member no doubt 😒
Trump expects everyone to support his lies and if they don't, they get punished!!!
India will be better off establishing closer ties with other nations. As the world’s largest democracy, it should shy away from a former close friend that has fallen into autocracy.
Lied you say? Who’d a thunk?
Modi won't even take his calls now. Also true.
Yes indeed! He can't lie his way into a Nobel.
He is so immature and petty!
This timeline is called the stupid timeline.
100%. Everything is personal with that fucking loser.
The whole "Hitler 2.0 ended 7 wars" lie is one of the more blatant gaslighting mind-fucks in history, like the one that he actually won the election in 2024.
... And, because he is basically so stupid!
By now the Nobel Committee has permanently struck Donald Trump's name off any consideration for a Peace or any other kind of prize, no matter who is bribed into nominating him.
He is going to change the name of the Dept. of Defense to the War Dept. That, in and of itself, would be disqualifying, but he's too addled to realize it.
True !! This☝️
Watch them award it to Greta Thunberg. That should set things off nicely
Entirely correct
So India, go along or else we’ll tax the ever living piss out of our people. Sounds on brand.
Missing explanatory element is that Trump is a vindictive idiot, a cut-off-your-nose-to-spite-your-face kind of guy. But ok, I guess people know that by now.
But...my generic drugs are manufactured in India !
India made the big mistake of not thanking him. One must show one's appreciation for anything he says and does.
Hi, one of your former students here who works in the national security field. That's not the case.
Not that these things ever have a definitive answer, but certainly there is a strong argument/some experts believe/etc, that this is the case.
I thought it was because India was going to continue to buy oil from Russia, acting expressly against the orange one’s wishes.
It is the answer BUT you will not find that answer anywhere in the MSM - so sad 😠
Also, he wants the optics that he’s holding Russia back by sanctioning India
What?!? No way.
Trump is obsessed with zero sum retribution, cruelty, and "getting even." Inflicting pain, even if it's a Pyrrhic victory, is a win in his eyes.
India continues to buy dirty oil from Russia.
No doubt! Vengeful lil prick!
Today's #Trumpshitfuckery the reason for the break down in US-India relations, #FW47 claiming he settled the India-Pakistan fighting PM Modi told #FW47 that U.S. involvement had nothing to do with the recent cease-fire. It had been settled directly between India and Pakistan.”
Plus Pakistan nominated him for the Nobel peace prize, it’s like the old days of the Cold War when it was a client state of the US and India was non aligned.
How much of the tariffs are in response to India continuing to buy Russian petro products?
Zero
Ok
Just to make it obvious: China and other countries but lots of Russian oil. Only India got 50% tariff.
No big revelation there it's just a bully being a bully
Because tariffs will be necessary to give tax breaks to wealthy and collect more tax from us. We're funding our own concentration camps, our own increase in food born illness and communicable disease, our own police state. The wealthy who've ordered this certainly aren't going to pay for it. We do
Can't have the big baby getting his feelings hurt!
"Stupid" ist ein ziemlich harsche Wort. Was genau hat ihn so aufgebracht?
You think Norway and the Nobel Committee knows?
I thought it was 10 wars, or was that just last week's running total. Must be more by now surely ....
There is no greater sin in MAGAworld than contradicting the Dear Leader
The answer is much easier. The orange turd in the White House has no clue of what he is doing. And neither do the suckers supporting him.
How presidential
There is no policy with these weirdos. There's just personal grievances and/or admiration. Literally the biggest snowflakes around.
They ruined his chance at the Nobel peace prize!😫
Oh, right, that’s what did it! No question, for sure, doubtless that was it.
Trump makes emotional decisions.
Believe it because he is that petty !
Exactly 👍🏻
It's the Nobel Peace Prize ahead of anything else. All other global politics can take second place at best.
I posted today. More so because modi wouldn't nominate him for peace prize bsky.app/profile/vega...
Yes! Truth! No other reason!
All action justifications are thus flimsy and all boil down to someone being mean to your toddler in chief. I’m embarrassed for you.
Seems on par… How unfortunate.
Agreed!
For real? I bet you are right though.
Why did Vietnam get 50% tariffs? Trump got his golf course and it went down. Tariffs are his way to extort favors for himself his family or friends
Bacause Russian assets are also Chinese
He obviously uses them as a bargaining tool to benefit himself. Like when he phoned Norway's finance minister in July 'to discuss tariffs' - "He wanted the Nobel Prize - and to discuss tariffs." www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
I hope Norway's Finance Minister told him to fuck off. When he does NOT get the prize he will slap a 50% tariff on Norway. Throw a fit & punish them for not bending to his demand. This is his MO. We've all seen it & are disgusted by it. Then the orange zombies cheer on his EVIL.
It's bullshit and Americans know it. Every fucking thing he has done to deregulate, manipulate the markets or invest in GAZA for God's sake? Is to enrich himself. Want something from America? Hand trump millions in bitcoin, give him a golf course, give him a jet on and on. He's a fucking convict.
And he wants to protect Russias interests
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More to the point, he has no choice but to protect Russia's interests. He is a wholly-owned vassal of Putin.
They are dark skinned.
Because tRump follows no logic, no truth, nothing consistent except: 1) do anything to protect his own ass 2) do anything to please & enhance Putin. #2 is actually subset of #1. Putin’s got the goods on tRump.
Yep. 👍 And maybe a little bit b/c India conts. to ignore Russian sanctions and accept Russian crude for refining, since Ukraine has knocked out so much of Russian domestic refining capacity. Apparently, India gets to keep 1/2 of every haul in payment. 🙄
Trump is a mentally ill very ignorant person that inevitably does the worst thing for America and its people.
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I think that's deliberate. The United States humiliated Trump by not re-electing him in 2020, so much so that he invited a mob to attack Congress. He even hates his followers, they failed him. He is taking revenge.
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Also, he’s an idiot who could find India on a map.
Sounds right. Believe it.
Wow. FOTUS is really not much more that a school-yard bully suffering from arrested development.
Isn't he the same guy who promises to lower drug prices by "1500%"? Apparently, he's unaware that 40% of generic drugs in the U.S. come from India. That math ain't mathin'.
They don’t have consistent plans that don’t involve destruction, just reactions. Create a catastrophe and profit from it seems to be the method.
I think that we need better reporting on this by the U.S. media. The industry was demanding exemptions, and some reports indicate that there would be exemptions following weeks of concerns raised about the impact on generic drug prices... I don't know the current status of this.
Maybe they just need to give him something gold, like a gold elephant or something. It doesn’t even have to be real gold, just painted gold. 🤦♂️
🤦♂️ Yes it really is that ridiculous.
#ThisIsOurGovernmentNow
Also, Trump has no principles except squeezing every country to the maximum extent possible. China can cut off America's rare earth mineral supply. India has no such leverage. China gets a pass, and India gets higher tariffs.
This story sounds familiar . . . . something about a newly-elected Ukrainian president who didn't capitulate to Cheato's extortion by confirming lies about his opponent
Yes, a quid pro quo that Trump got impeached for. How quaint. Trump does a quid pro quo like that every day now and it’s “fine” because Congress is full of spineless R’s and because the MAGA Supreme Court decided that Trump is allowed to crime away with impunity.
Yep. Donny is a very special boy.
We have to hold onto the belief that this is temporary, that the arc of the moral universe will bend back towards justice. And then perhaps we will cherish and embrace our fragile democracy.
Thank you💙
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Because Indians do not want involvement of any 3rd party in Kashmir and related issues. Indians only considered Pakistani administrative Kashmir as an issue while Pakistan considered their administrative part as an outstanding issue. This is really complicated.
#TrumpTariffTax #Trumpcession
What? Felon47 didn't stop sevenity billion wars? I wonder if this isn't why the child rapist won't release the tRUMP-Epstein-Maxwell files.
His vindictiveness knows no bounds.
LIAR IN CHIEF
Tariffs on India would drastically increase the cost of Harley Davidsons.
And Pakistan gave him a nifty gifty.
Yep. The talking heads have to fill a segment with something, so they try and get us to overthink really simple truths.
Are you saying the President is vengeful? 😝
This is affecting my fashion company’s business since we import beautiful tops from India.
One constituency that Trump doesn't really care about in term #2 are the China hawks.
Modi didn't kiss his butt long ir hard enough and with sincere affection.
SMH ... foreign affairs by ego ...
Sounds totally true considering the STUPIDITY of THE FELON.
Trump is driving India to sign a defense deal with china's new SATO organization.
Plausible
Every American interested in our political situation (and every media outlet) needs to understand Narcissistic Personality Disorder. It explains most of these things.
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#USA didn't put the tariffs on. #trump did, unilaterally 100% because #India wouldn't accept #trump lie that he ended the war between #India and #Pakistan and made a public statement that no, he didn't.
Because USA is now an ally of Russia and China?
Could tariffs be a deceptive way for the western financial system to pay for the 2008-2022 14 years of QE? FYI (The majority of which went to stock buybacks.
He solved 17 wars and Modi is just jealous
It's nice that a pointless egotistical lie is the reason to blow up supply chains for no reason Trump is a masterful catastrophe artist He just destroys everything and loses it all How typical
No doubt.
Personalist regime meets personalist regime lol
True.
Yep he hasn't solved any wars anywhere
I thought he was just trying to kill more Americans, since India is a major manufacturer of pharmaceuticals.
Why the hell didn’t Trump impose tougher sanctions against Putin? Why did the Trump Clown Car cancel support for Ukraine at the worst possible moment? Because Trump has been compromised by Putin for decades!
Compromised? He's OWNED.
Trump removed Obama's Russian/Oligarch sanctions immediately after taking office in round 1. McConnell was immediately rewarded with an aluminum plant (unrealized) in Kentucky.
I forgot to follow up on That aluminum plant in KY. At least he didn’t throw McConnell’s wife under the bus. 😌
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Psst... 😂🤣😂
Alternately, it's because the only tarrifs that sensible people were willing to consider is Tarrifs on India to punish it for funding the Russian war machine.. so mr broken clock is right twice per day went and imposed tarrifs. And, also that other thing, very much that other thing too.
unfortunately true
apparently Trump is also miffed that Modi didnt meet him before he won the elections (when all the CEOs were meeting him at the Mar-a-Lago) cz Modi said he would, and then didnt. Then apparently Modi was given the Zelensky treatment in a private meeting at the WH. Two massive egos clashing.
also the trade drama too. India said that they wont buy F35s. And the thing is Trump publically offered F35s to India, which they then publically said "no thanks" to. Then in trade negos, they said they wont open their farm and dairy sector. Which given India's farm sector, I'm glad they didnt.
Truth would be stranger than fiction only if fiction would be stranger than the truth
Oh
Retribution. Such a big word for such a little man.
And in one fell swoop, he managed to isolate the USA from the rest of the world ... 🙄 #ETTD
yeah, also putin owns chettolini's ass
Sounds about right.
And India doesn’t care
Not sure that’s the real reason. I think he’s just stupid and actually believes in the dumb Tarrifs theory.
Rump trying to scam a Nobel prize - because that's the only way he has ever done business. A narcissist with an 85 IQ. FMR.
And probably because their leader wouldn’t vote for this 🍊🤡 to get the Nobel peace prize. He’s such a man baby.
Speaking for an entire planet . . .
Trump did this because he’s trying to boost Russia’s influence: he is deliberately pushing India back into Russia’s arms.
No, he did this as described, to heal the "wound" to his vanity from Barack Obama having a Nobel and him, not. I am not saying that Val doesn't rub salt in that wound every time he gets a chance, but it's Trump's wound that he has been nursing a long time.
It sounds like a conspiracy, except he’s acting exactly how someone would act if they were doing it intentionally. The result is the same, so I don’t know how much motive matters.
Bingo!
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India is not counter weight to China...stop peddling failed policies. India has tremendously helped Russia in most important war for the West in this century: Ukrainian invasion of Russia. Modi is fascist and natural ally of Russia not the West
Can't apply secondary sanctions seriously without putting them on China, and Xi already said no thanks.
Exactly. He’s using the tariffs as extortion to continue robbing us. That’s why they’re going so extreme on “America will fail and go broke without the tariffs.” Replace America with Trump.
Indian Prime Minister Modi said on tv that what trump said "never happened". If I'm not mistaken, Modi went so far as to say, "It's a lie."
Modi is refusing to take pedo47's calls, because the decomposing hulk keeps claiming he ended the India/Pakistan conflict. He claimed they ended it to get a 'deal' on tariffs, thus insulting India and Modi, who stated there was no deal, and that India ended the conflict by defeating Pakistan.
Yes. Isn't that basically what I said sans Modi not taking FOTUS' calls?
Yes, but with added details. Problem?
Nope; it just sounded like you meant what I wrote was wrong, when you wrote much the same. I understand now, added details. We're on the same page.
Modi is reported to be furious after phone call with trump.
Bcuz he's a pathological lier yall haven't figured that out yet.
Ignorance and revenge are no way to run a government.
And because he lied, India refused to sponsor him for a Nobel peace prize.
Perhaps that and the probability the president is missing the gene that compels one to disciplined planning in order to achieve strategic objectives.
The real answer is that India isn't doing what Russia wants. Trump does exactly what Putin tells him to do.
Also, hes an idiot.
Wow. Insanity. Are we great yet?
Fixed like completely resolved tensions? Huh. Makes sense then, he's kinda obsessed with getting the Nobel Peace Prize.
Yes. And there is no actual strategy or plan regarding tariffs. Trump’s dementia rules, and Vought’s “project 2025 chaos” supports it all.
Whatever is the reason for punitive tariffs on India, it is clear that neither China not Russia can buy what India was exporting to USA. As a result India's large tiny and medium industries are going to die and a million or more workers will become jobless.
i never wanted to study the whole india/pakistan thing but it goes way back and looks like something trump would never understand. hindu moslem yeah, but isn't there a lot more to it?
And also because that is what a russian agent would do.
Donald is Vlad's bitch. Donald is a Russian asset & Vlad is his handler. I've been saying so for years.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/u...
He's the pettiest kid in the elementary school.
Also because it seems Pakistan bought a bundle of his fraud coin, and he really wants to help out his pal Putin.
No lies detected here. What passes for policy from this administration can all be placed in one of two boxes. The first box is serve the wishes of the insanely rich. The second box is hurt people who have gotten on the wrong side of the President. Shameless, valueless shit people.
That’s a blunt but accurate way to put it. Essentially, the tariffs weren’t about the strategic calculus of countering China or isolating Russia they were a response to a diplomatic misstep and a credibility issue. When the US leadership made promises or claims that didn’t align with reality,
India wasn’t willing to play along, so the tariffs became a default pressure tool. It’s a reminder that in international relations, perception and trust can matter as much as strategic alignment.
And it’s expressly against the law…not ever his concern
The answer is Trump can’t afford the economic shock of that kind of tariff on China.
Because of course
He's the same President who put high tariffs on Brazil because the right-wing ex-President there is on trial
Yeah. Whatever happened to conducting foreign policy in the national interest? Or partisanship ending at the water’s edge? Oh well, narcissistic personality disorder!
Also, he's not very smart.
The answer was in the question: "Russia, Russia, Russia." While we're here: Epstein, Epstein, Epstein.
I mean that’s not the answer it’s because India is continuing to buy a lot of Russian oil which is funding the war in Ukraine. Hardly isolating Russia by saying “go ahead and buy all the Russian oil you want, we’ll do nothing”
Trump’s LIES.
Trump is a demented idiot who doesn't understand a thing.
It's never about the US interests, it's all about who trump wants to bully because they haven't kissed his ass
The truth is inconvenient to some people
That is absolutely true. Pakistan capitulated and even nominated Orange POS for Nobel peace prize (Pakistan is financially bankrupt and a failed state) while India said that’s a lie. Trump’s stupidity is driving India closer to our sworn enemies.
Modi is no saint. He's authoritarian too. But yes, bone spurs wanted Modi to nominate him for Peace prize and Modi declined, per NYT report. So the thin-skinned bozo's feelings got hurt and he increased the tariffs.
Modi is also pushing a lot of authoritarian crap in India just like Drumpf.
India chose Russia, they have not been pushed.
Modi visiting Russia and China right after trumps shit show! OkeeDokee.
timing is telling
Modi's a dick. He'd have done it anyway.
India likes cheap Russian oil
Who doesn’t like cheap stuff? 😁Americans are hooked on cheap stuff from all over the world. Walmart is the biggest retailer that Americans flock to and they sell cheap shit from all over the world while paying non living wage to part timers.
You should sanction those companies not indian pharma companies that have got nothing to do with ambani . It is all so stupid
Think trump has temporary exemption on Indian pharma.
and i thought our president was just an age addled moron
Yip sounds like Mr Trump. Vindictive bastard
Presi-Dunce Diaper HAS to be in the spotlight - one of his ‘religions’ 🤣🤮🤣🤮🤣🤮🤣🤮🤣🤮🤣🤮
It's worth saying, once again, that every tariff that Trump imposes is a shot in the foot. "I'm going to put tariffs on everybody and everything" is a policy that will end effect of economically isolating the US, while denying us access to the cheap imports that the economy is built on.
Its sabotage, while we try to make sense of it theyre gutting us from within. ALL the local politics are fudder for news cycles exclusively. This is Khruschevs plan. "without firing one shot" mission accomplished.
It is 🤦🏼
I agree. Don the Con is a petulant child!
Foreign policy by amateurs, let ego get in the way of national interest. We’re being lead by an idiot
What? Trump said he was doing the big tariffs on India because India was trading with Russia, and it's one of the very few anti-Putin things he's done?
And you believed Trump's words?
It seemed vindictive enough to be credible ;-)
Why would you think that Trump has a problem when someone trades with Russia? But we do know that he has a problem with anyone denying his "Nobel peace prize worthy" achievements. And yes, that was vindictive?
No question mark at the end
I believe it!
Let us not forget BRICS.
It’s an ego driven government
Trump is definitely forcing India and other traditional allies closer to either China or Russia or in the case of EU/Canada, working closer together minimizing American damage. Relations America has cultivated over decades, GONE in a matter of months. Won't be regained any time soon! America Alone.
Putin told Trump to lower all possible barriers that prevent him from occupying all of Ukraine. The USA has then effectively normalized conquest of any country they want. Please vote responsibly.
And now 13 countries are withholding goods. The number will climb. Just like the national debt, just like cost of living, food, gas and daily essentials.
J.D.Vance's trip to India wasn't revealed as to the real reason....Vance was disrespectful, and wanted to keep the Tiff between India and Pakistan alive. The Federal Judge said all of his Tariffs are an overreach...& it's the reason why everything is expensive.
so disappointed in Vance
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Now they have a reason to go running into the arms of Putin and strengthening BRICS. Another win for Putin and Xi. The useful idiot is following orders.
Well, doggonit!! He done told us another whopper! I’m startin’ to not believe a dern thing what comes outta that boy’s mouth. Hmphh.
India - already on the 50% tariff list had something to say, and it's BRILLIANT youtu.be/gO_OE5G-R_E?...
SALUTE INDIA⚡️
