JUST IN: President Trump says the US should lower its 145% tariff on most Chinese goods to 80% ahead of trade talks between the two countries this weekend. cnn.it/3EVJlLC
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That’s not a concession. Why are you lying?
may 9, 2025, 1:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Passing the blame because he got it wrong
may 9, 2025, 12:36 pm • 1 0 • view
This is an example of how NOT to make a deal
may 9, 2025, 2:31 pm • 2 0 • view
He’s the worst negotiator ever
may 9, 2025, 3:37 pm • 1 0 • view
That’s still basically an embargo of Chinese goods. Trump is an idiot. @carlquintanilla.bsky.social
may 9, 2025, 12:31 pm • 1 0 • view
Must be something going on to manipulate the markets with more rumors and disinformation.
may 9, 2025, 3:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Why didn’t I think of that?
may 9, 2025, 12:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Someone is desperate for a deal.... "CHINA SHOULD OPEN UP ITS MARKET TO USA — WOULD BE SO GOOD FOR THEM!!!" DJT
may 9, 2025, 12:21 pm • 0 0 • view
This will hurt Donald's voters the most. Price hikes will happen no matter what. Even if temporary. youtu.be/gXxpadPOBSg
may 9, 2025, 12:15 pm • 0 0 • view
To be honest reversing stances whatever way its framed is good
may 9, 2025, 1:27 pm • 1 0 • view
That insane waste of air has no idea what he is doing or saying. But what do you expect from a convicted felon and adjudicated rapist!
may 10, 2025, 1:49 am • 0 0 • view
may 9, 2025, 1:17 pm • 2 0 • view
the coward blinked again
may 9, 2025, 12:46 pm • 3 0 • view
Gobbledegook says what??????
may 9, 2025, 12:20 pm • 1 0 • view
POS
may 9, 2025, 3:08 pm • 1 0 • view
China knows Trump is desperate to avoid empty shelves. They could come out of this trade war in even better shape than before it started.
may 10, 2025, 1:18 pm • 0 0 • view
So now he is telling the US government to lower the tariffs he put on. China when he should do it... deflection extraordinaire
may 9, 2025, 12:35 pm • 1 0 • view
…. Walking back……
may 10, 2025, 11:37 am • 0 0 • view
🤦🏻♂️
may 9, 2025, 1:58 pm • 1 0 • view
4D chess my ass.
may 9, 2025, 12:29 pm • 1 0 • view
China:
may 9, 2025, 12:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes. He also wants to know whose funking idea the tariffs were in the first place?
may 10, 2025, 2:06 am • 0 0 • view
He needs to quit playing we all know the Chinese aren’t. He’s trying to save face.
may 9, 2025, 12:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Came here to make a snarky response to this headline, but so many others beat me to it. Ha!
may 9, 2025, 3:35 pm • 0 0 • view
Blinked.... again
may 9, 2025, 12:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Am I suppose to believe today's Trump or yesterday's Trump?
may 9, 2025, 12:57 pm • 1 0 • view
Tell us when it's signed. Until then , it's all just bullshit for attention for his over inflated ego.
may 9, 2025, 2:39 pm • 5 2 • view
Trump is bored with this shit too
may 9, 2025, 12:41 pm • 0 0 • view
he's deranged-someone please demand a regime change-NOW! they are destroying our economy, our place in the world & trust that took painstaking time to reach-why is not leaving well enough alone & dealing with lowering costs to americans-stop playing a tv game for billionaires with tax payers money
may 9, 2025, 1:38 pm • 1 0 • view
lmao he folds so easily. so weak
may 9, 2025, 2:08 pm • 0 0 • view
It should be lowered to 1% or 0
may 9, 2025, 3:28 pm • 0 0 • view
may 9, 2025, 6:26 pm • 13 4 • view
🤣🤣🤣
may 9, 2025, 7:18 pm • 0 0 • view
may 9, 2025, 12:14 pm • 2 0 • view
A toddler playing checkers with the economy
may 9, 2025, 12:24 pm • 1 0 • view
One person's "major concession" is another person's major incoherent nonsense.
may 9, 2025, 12:19 pm • 1 0 • view
Was this his big announcement? WTF! Stop yapping on and on about solving problems you made! Your presidency is about you not the country. Your presidency keeps you out of jail. Your presidency is about white republicans keeping their wealth and expanding power. Your presidency is meant to protect-
may 9, 2025, 5:13 pm • 0 0 • view
All your loyal servants out of jail. Your presidency is not about upholding the constitution. Your presidency keeps your name off the Epstein files. Your presidency greatness is nothing but lies and destructively deceitful. Your presidency silent the voices of the multicultural people of…
may 9, 2025, 5:13 pm • 0 0 • view
America. Your presidency keeps us moving backwards. Your presidency is meant to take away women, minorities rights. Your presidency is designed to destroy legacy of Abraham Lincoln, Dr. Martin Luther king and all that stoop up to make America what it before your fascist ass took office.
may 9, 2025, 5:13 pm • 0 0 • view
80% is still an absolute joke and totally unsustainable for the majority of businesses. Trump doesn't know what the fuck he's doing and you guys should point that out.
may 9, 2025, 2:06 pm • 4 0 • view
I thought we were going to male so much money. We don't want to make as much money now???? Nevermind it must make sense because the President did it. Right?????? 🙄
may 9, 2025, 12:19 pm • 0 0 • view
This is market manipulation!
may 9, 2025, 12:17 pm • 0 0 • view
CTFU, if they ignore him another 3 weeks it may go down to 50%.
may 9, 2025, 12:36 pm • 2 0 • view
Did he seriously just say that his obscene tarriff was a bad idea and needs to be cut in half, but the Treasury guy needs to fix it, not him?
may 9, 2025, 12:21 pm • 0 0 • view
Trump is negotiating against himself
may 9, 2025, 2:28 pm • 19 2 • view
Create a problem that doesn't exist, boast about it, then back down like a pussy and claim victory. Rinse and repeat.
may 9, 2025, 3:04 pm • 6 1 • view
Back off bougaloo! Melt like wet kleenex
may 9, 2025, 12:46 pm • 0 0 • view
may 9, 2025, 12:34 pm • 0 0 • view
To pursue the amazing trade deals of 90 deals in 90 days the Trump’s administration should announced soon that they reached a deal wit Russia and North Korea showing again the great deal maker Trump is and how his strategy provides amazing results for USA ! 😏
may 9, 2025, 11:25 pm • 0 0 • view
So - he's caving. What an idiot. We have received but pain for his stupid tariff war and MAGAts still claim the orange moron is "smart".
may 9, 2025, 12:37 pm • 1 0 • view
Major concession? 80% new tax is a concession?
may 9, 2025, 12:16 pm • 0 0 • view
China say exports are up ! Someone should inform the technocrats and Donald . We don’t need Amazon or any American to buy from China . lol those tariff wars are making America great .
may 9, 2025, 1:10 pm • 1 0 • view
Giving in before the negotiations even start? I thought he was supposed to be some great deal maker?
may 9, 2025, 12:49 pm • 1 0 • view
This time the world is standing up to the bully.
may 9, 2025, 1:05 pm • 2 0 • view
He is such a great negotiator…
may 9, 2025, 12:21 pm • 1 0 • view
TACO strikes again
jun 6, 2025, 10:46 pm • 0 0 • view
Its not a 'major concession'. Its just further proof these numbers are coming out of his butt. Quit treating it like its some official declaration when he plops a percent out there, he don't remember what he said last week.
may 9, 2025, 12:41 pm • 1 0 • view
It’s only been 109 days…
may 9, 2025, 2:44 pm • 0 0 • view
And the Loser-in-Chief caves yet again.
may 9, 2025, 2:36 pm • 0 0 • view
He’s such a strong negotiator.
may 9, 2025, 1:20 pm • 1 0 • view
Was his followed by him flapping his elbows, screaming "bawk bawk bawk bawk bawk"
may 9, 2025, 12:21 pm • 1 0 • view
You mean the #TrumpTax on Chinese goods
may 9, 2025, 12:16 pm • 7 1 • view
1/3. The only person Trump cares about is himself. All of his talk is to prove he & he alone can manipulate the stock market all while enriching himself & those that are close to him. There is no trade deal, just talk.
may 9, 2025, 2:04 pm • 3 1 • view
2/3. The "deal" he struck with the UK is fundementally bad for the United States - the UK gets to sell cars in the US, just like it did before, only now with a 10% tariff compared to the higher tariffs imposed on other countries. Cars made in the UK will be cheaper.
may 9, 2025, 2:04 pm • 1 1 • view
3/3. The U.S. already runs a trade surplus with the U.K., meaning we export more than we import. We will just continue to export those things like we did before. The stock market gets continued chaos. Trump gets to enrich himself.
may 9, 2025, 2:04 pm • 3 1 • view
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may 9, 2025, 7:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Ha, ha, ha...he's negotiating against himself.
may 9, 2025, 6:48 pm • 0 0 • view
Why not 69%?
may 10, 2025, 1:16 am • 1 0 • view
What a negotiator!
may 9, 2025, 12:13 pm • 2 0 • view
Buffoon
may 9, 2025, 2:29 pm • 2 0 • view
How is that a "major concession"? He just tossed a number out there, he didn't actually change anything. Sure, normally, even just saying it might be seen as a symbolic move. But with Trump, it's just noise. Ridiculous reporting.
may 9, 2025, 12:51 pm • 3 0 • view
WHO?
may 9, 2025, 4:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Trump doesn’t need other countries stuff-so the world needs to force the notion to fully expose his delusional thinking.
may 9, 2025, 12:46 pm • 0 0 • view
The USA is caving! It’s time they wake up to the fact that they are reliant on the world for goods, and the rest of the world doesn’t need what the USA has to offer! F around and find out USA!
may 9, 2025, 2:46 pm • 1 0 • view
this is nothing, my god hire some real humans you are not dumb as shit
may 9, 2025, 1:48 pm • 1 0 • view
How long before he blames the 145% tariff on Biden?
may 9, 2025, 2:18 pm • 0 0 • view
how is 80% a tariff major concession? That is still a 80% tax tax for US consumers
may 9, 2025, 8:49 pm • 0 0 • view
It gives the impression that this man does not know what he is doing. Just like ALL THE THINGS HE DID.
may 9, 2025, 4:58 pm • 1 0 • view
Oh brother- seriously - what a goof- free trade no tariffs - period.
may 9, 2025, 1:33 pm • 1 0 • view
may 9, 2025, 12:34 pm • 0 0 • view
may 9, 2025, 12:34 pm • 0 0 • view
may 9, 2025, 12:34 pm • 0 0 • view
Fart of the deal
may 9, 2025, 1:00 pm • 1 0 • view
Great news, so prices for toys and everyday items will only go up by about 50%.
may 9, 2025, 12:16 pm • 3 0 • view
Trump has to be in the news cycle, his narcissism demands it. So he walks u up the hill and down again, making money as he goes, reporting all the way. Does Trump and friends have to declare money they make through Clypto currencies ?
may 9, 2025, 12:59 pm • 1 0 • view
@cnn.com, could you please explain how dropping one insane tariff level for another tariff level that was considered equally insane is a "major concession"? Rational minds want to know.
may 9, 2025, 1:47 pm • 3 0 • view
Also, is it a concession when suddenly he claims to have no power over setting the tariff?
may 9, 2025, 1:48 pm • 1 0 • view
"The buck stops [everywhere else but] here."
may 9, 2025, 1:48 pm • 2 0 • view
NOT a serious President. Toddler trade policy.
may 9, 2025, 2:01 pm • 0 0 • view
Isn’t trump putting Americans more in debt with all the lawsuits for his wayward actions? This seems to be cast by the whims if one man hell bent in the destruction of America? Just remember the republicans can stop this but have yielded their balance of power to save America.
may 9, 2025, 12:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Leave it up to = use as scapegoat.
may 9, 2025, 3:48 pm • 2 1 • view
Make concessions before negotiating. Got to get a hold of that awesome book of his.
may 9, 2025, 12:14 pm • 23 1 • view
Trump lies dominate tv media Commentators say he promised this then that then this again essentially giving him free publicity Then trump blames Biden where again they recite this nonsense He now has excuses which media recites Suggest @rbreich.bsky.social YouTube video youtu.be/qtaIulmOS18?...
may 9, 2025, 7:49 pm • 0 0 • view
Caved.
may 9, 2025, 12:31 pm • 1 0 • view
😂😂😂
may 9, 2025, 1:28 pm • 0 0 • view
may 9, 2025, 12:42 pm • 1 0 • view
Just In: Instead of blowing up our economy with a nuclear bomb Trump has decided that an ICB missile will work just as well.
may 9, 2025, 12:34 pm • 1 0 • view
He'll "leave it up to Bessent?"
may 9, 2025, 1:49 pm • 0 0 • view
🙄
may 9, 2025, 12:13 pm • 3 0 • view
#Trump is the backdown #King
may 9, 2025, 12:54 pm • 1 0 • view
Trumps a loser destroying our country and our economy. That’s the statement CNN should be making, not their bullshit so call Just In !
may 9, 2025, 12:28 pm • 2 0 • view
Congress only and should be 10% but we’re screwed from the greatest economy ever pre Jan 2025
may 9, 2025, 12:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Major concession? Massive eyeroll at @cnn.com
may 9, 2025, 8:52 pm • 0 0 • view
If Trump's not going to be in charge of tariffs, his special obsession, he's not in charge of anything anymore. His brain is porridge.
may 9, 2025, 2:48 pm • 0 0 • view
80%? Or maybe 75%? Or 83%? These are random numbers that mean nothing but far too high.
may 9, 2025, 2:13 pm • 0 0 • view
But then we save less money?
may 9, 2025, 4:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Not so much a U-turn, but a President doing donuts. Never have I been so pleased to not be an American, being repeatedly humiliated on the world’s stage by such an utterly incompetent administration.
may 9, 2025, 12:21 pm • 0 0 • view
Stop enabling fascism with your bullshit framing, you don’t owe Trump a damn thing.
may 9, 2025, 3:02 pm • 6 0 • view
On your knees Donald!!!
may 9, 2025, 2:39 pm • 1 0 • view
Trump thought he's got all the cards, but he forgot that those cards are made in China.
may 9, 2025, 12:35 pm • 0 0 • view
It's the art of the deal. It's negotiation. Now China knows what CAN be done. Their move!
may 9, 2025, 12:14 pm • 1 0 • view
Your wallet about to catch dust and pennies - enjoy paying more for everything dipsh*t
may 9, 2025, 12:16 pm • 2 0 • view
Yup. Hold trumpies feet to the fire and he will cave even more.
may 9, 2025, 12:34 pm • 0 0 • view
This will still cost American consumers a shit ton. He has blinked first, we all know the first to make concessions in a negotiation is losing. China will tell him to go pound sand even at 80%.
may 9, 2025, 12:26 pm • 2 0 • view
Is that what the twenty-sided die roll said to do? Neato.
may 9, 2025, 12:24 pm • 1 0 • view
Trump doesn't have the cards.
may 9, 2025, 12:14 pm • 10 0 • view
Trump helped America exit from the world stage. We are now anathema to all nations and on the path to becoming an utterly irrelevant failed state.
may 9, 2025, 12:22 pm • 6 2 • view
He’ll say Biden stole them!
may 9, 2025, 12:19 pm • 3 0 • view
or the intelligence
may 9, 2025, 12:57 pm • 1 0 • view
Lmfao art of the cave!
may 9, 2025, 12:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Art of the Squeal. What a laughingstock. This is the big bad MAGA man? Stupid Nazi. Stupid.
may 9, 2025, 12:53 pm • 1 0 • view
Desperately, Don shows his fat poxy white ass to the world.
may 9, 2025, 12:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Tough getting used to all this “winning”!!!!
may 9, 2025, 2:22 pm • 3 0 • view
may 9, 2025, 12:13 pm • 1 0 • view
So even after TFG caves on 50% of the tariffs over his 10% floor, 10+(145-10)/2=77.5≈80%, USians still have to pay 80% taxes to USG on goods imported from China? I still feel like TFG's screwing us. & every single just-in-time supply line here & around the world. One #TrumpDepression coming up.
may 9, 2025, 4:40 pm • 0 0 • view
That's still absurdly high for our biggest trading partner.
may 9, 2025, 2:14 pm • 0 0 • view
We have the highest tariffs since the 1940s and the details will continue to change, randomly, as long as Trump is in charge. Absolutely the worst possible policy for the economy.
may 9, 2025, 12:24 pm • 1 1 • view
trump is all over the place, extremely wishy-washy. The U.S. looks weak and unstable under trump's leadership.
may 9, 2025, 12:51 pm • 1 0 • view
Yet this is still a tax on all of us. Trump sucks
may 9, 2025, 12:57 pm • 1 0 • view
Xi should tell him to fuck off. Trump created this problem and now the pussy is backing down.
may 9, 2025, 3:07 pm • 3 0 • view
Chuna doesn't need the United States. The United States needs China.
may 9, 2025, 2:00 pm • 0 0 • view
random
may 9, 2025, 12:42 pm • 1 0 • view
There are no talks
may 9, 2025, 2:01 pm • 1 0 • view
NO. MAKE THEM TALK!!!
may 9, 2025, 12:25 pm • 0 0 • view
4 more years of this shit, huh?
may 9, 2025, 12:14 pm • 49 1 • view
He blinked again whimp.
may 9, 2025, 12:19 pm • 0 0 • view
I mean don’t act like it’s a “win” when 80% tariff would still basically mean the end of trade with China.
may 9, 2025, 12:28 pm • 1 0 • view
Lowering before a negotiation, goodwill tactic or an acknowledgement of the shit storm that has been created
may 9, 2025, 12:14 pm • 4 0 • view
Sounds like a classic negotiation tactic: start high and hope to settle somewhere in the middle. Let's see if these talks lead to any actual progress or if it’s just more back-and-forth. It’s trade diplomacy at its finest!
may 9, 2025, 12:34 pm • 0 0 • view
Since when is 80% a concession? All of this is a joke. It's arbitrary and capricious. 80% is effectively no different than 145% - it freezes the market regardless.
may 9, 2025, 1:31 pm • 31 3 • view
80% is still economic suicide. Anyone who thinks this is good is an imbecile who shouldn't be trusted with... Well anything.
may 9, 2025, 3:38 pm • 1 0 • view
80% tariff on China goods is crazy. It's a huge Federal sales tax on consumers here because we buy a lot of their goods. Trump even eliminated the tariff exemption for lower priced goods previously in place, so its now on all goods. Consumers will pay a hefty price. It's a stealth tax on families.
may 9, 2025, 12:32 pm • 6 1 • view
Nothing stealthy about it.
may 9, 2025, 12:38 pm • 4 0 • view
80% or 145% doesn’t really mean shit. People are still going to pay higher prices.
may 9, 2025, 1:02 pm • 2 0 • view
Just like he drew it up in "The Shart of the Deal". He has zero leverage vs. China and is too fuckin' dense to see it. And 🇨🇦. And 🇲🇽. And...
may 9, 2025, 3:21 pm • 3 0 • view
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may 9, 2025, 12:24 pm • 1 0 • view
So that genius formula was absolute 🐂💩😂🤡
may 9, 2025, 12:19 pm • 2 0 • view