“Upon closer inspection, Trump’s trade deals aren’t nearly as impressive as they sound,” Rogé Karma argues. “In fact, they aren’t really trade deals in the traditional sense, and they might not benefit the U.S. at all”:
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The final arbiter of any trade deal is the consumer. If the consumer won't buy your products, then the retailer won't stock it, the distributor can't sell it so the importer won't import it.
aug 8, 2025, 12:10 pm • 2 0 • view
Trump has no interest in expending any effort to helping the U.S. He is solely concerned with benefiting personally, either directly or by spinning propaganda to perpetuate the hero myth to his gullible followers.
aug 8, 2025, 1:24 pm • 1 0 • view
And the press at large has failed us again by blasting out exactly what he wants them to even though it’s not reality. It’s really stunning to watch him dog walk the majority of the media over and over and over and over and over again. The most manipulative POTUS of my lifetime, maybe ever?
aug 8, 2025, 12:22 pm • 6 2 • view
They are just going to hurt the American people again and again and again we have to deal with this deranged freak!💙💙💙
aug 8, 2025, 12:09 pm • 3 0 • view
they seem to be either gaming the stock market or a push pull to world organization through economics. tell me?
aug 8, 2025, 11:54 am • 0 0 • view
No shit
aug 8, 2025, 11:55 am • 1 0 • view
The other nations got Trump's number, they flattered him, made him feel like a big man by inflating his ego. They're waiting to see what happens in the midterms, if Dems take back the house, Trump's going to have some problems getting things passed.
aug 8, 2025, 12:12 pm • 3 0 • view
This guy thought Trump’s trade deals sounded impressive??????
aug 8, 2025, 11:18 pm • 0 0 • view
... if they even exist at all...
aug 8, 2025, 11:57 am • 0 0 • view
They don't even sound impressive.
aug 8, 2025, 12:01 pm • 4 0 • view
But they get Trump lots of attention
aug 8, 2025, 12:24 pm • 1 0 • view
I will now put on my shocked face
aug 8, 2025, 12:13 pm • 0 0 • view
I’m starting to think most politicians are morons
aug 8, 2025, 11:54 am • 5 0 • view
You mean, like a con?
aug 8, 2025, 1:10 pm • 3 0 • view
Bankruptcy King
aug 8, 2025, 11:52 am • 4 0 • view
Just Trump playing with the economy the same way he plays with plastic army men.
aug 8, 2025, 1:25 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 8, 2025, 5:02 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s very funny that negotiation is so central to his image and he turns out to be uniquely terrible at it.
aug 8, 2025, 11:57 am • 4 1 • view
I suspect the EU gave Trump a dose of his own medicine - and signed an agreement it has no intention of honoring. The understanding being that Trump 1) will have no idea whether or not that agreement is being adhered to, but 2) will bitch about getting screwed whether it is or isn't.
aug 8, 2025, 12:23 pm • 3 0 • view
aug 10, 2025, 8:36 am • 0 0 • view
No shit! Trump is a mental midget and he’s getting raked over the coals by much smarter world leaders. The bad part is the American people are paying for it.
aug 8, 2025, 11:55 am • 10 0 • view
“You get what you pay for!”
aug 8, 2025, 12:34 pm • 0 0 • view
That's is what he does. He hyper inflates the truth to make it sound good while is all lies and IOUs that leave you holding the bag. He has done this his whole life. The Cheeto bankrupted a casino. A CASINO. Several actually. "Art of the deal" in actuality is ART OF THE CON STEAL.
aug 8, 2025, 2:11 pm • 0 0 • view
No shit. A pedophile, nepo-baby, con man who lies constantly and bombed nearly every business he's ever touched and doesn't give the first fuck about this country or the people in it, can't manage to make even decent trade deals. No fucking shit.
aug 8, 2025, 11:56 am • 1 0 • view
Again - Trump is NOT a good businessman NOR a good person! 6x Bankruptcies (3 Casinos!) 13+ Failed Businesses 34x Felony convictions Convicted Sexual Assault & Defamation Paid porn star for sex Believes White Nationalists are 'good people' Declared [latinos] are 'naturally' inclined to farm labor
aug 8, 2025, 12:16 pm • 5 0 • view
I always point to the demise of the original USFL to exhibit Trump’s economic stupidity. Anyone that paid attention to how that ended shouldn’t have let him anywhere near any kind of public office.
aug 8, 2025, 1:29 pm • 2 0 • view
Yesterday Tramp said, they will put tariffs on gold from Switzerland. Sure, you won't simply buy any gold in that case. No sane person will buy gold with 30+ % tariffs on it. Maybe someone will make a penguin island shuffle trade deal.
aug 8, 2025, 12:20 pm • 1 0 • view
I am afraid that Penguins are already taxed at least at 10% minimum. That makes the gold trade already problematic.
aug 8, 2025, 12:58 pm • 1 0 • view
It took “close inspection” to figure this out?
aug 8, 2025, 12:26 pm • 18 3 • view
The man has a list of consecutive busniess failures as long as, or longer than the The Pan-American Highway (19,000 miles); WHY DOES ANYONE THINK HE IS THE JEDI KNIGHT OF COMMERCE? Yes, he's got some money but he was millionaire at age 9 thanks to his father; yet how deep he is in hock???!
aug 8, 2025, 1:58 pm • 0 0 • view
None of this stops until he’s out! Call your reps & demand a town hall Ask how long they are going to run cover for trumps sex trafficking Call your reps every day & GOP leaders 202-224-3121 Tell them to remove Trump by impeachment/treason charges Need help use 5calls.org Also Runforsomething.net
aug 8, 2025, 12:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Ya think?
aug 8, 2025, 11:55 am • 2 0 • view
Did anything resembling cash float in his direction?
aug 8, 2025, 12:35 pm • 0 0 • view
Quite the media failure
aug 8, 2025, 12:41 pm • 3 0 • view