he definitely didn't compose this

He still believes that Korea pays these tariffs doesn't he ?

They may not be legally valid. I hear Stephson Mildew signed his signature with autopen.

I doubt trump knows South Korea

Who's gonna tell trump that we have a trade surplus with South Korea? By his 'logic' they should be charging us a tariff until we stop selling them so much stuff and start buying more of their shit. What a maroon...

He's almost to the point his father go to. He'll sign anything they put in front of him and try to make it sound like the biggest, most important thing ever.

These morons think (sic) that tariffs are paid TO the U.S. by foreign countries. Do you really think they understand anything more complex than that?

Dementia. It’s all dementia.

Trump is just a puppet in this he just signs anything his stuff put in front of him nowadays his is getting more feeble and frail by the day

Dump has no idea about anything his brain 🧠 is missing and on the run from him 🤪

Trump and the GOP just flat out lie to fit their narrative.

Probably sent a letter to some random car wash in Guam. Let these people up sell you the under carriage wash!!

Total Landscaping S Korea.

trump wants money, he doesn't care how. if a company wants something now they just sent someone with a suitcase of cash to his office, if they anger him then send more cash. trump will look the other way for cash. he will also take the cash and just laugh in your face.

Stupid they are on President letter to the country in question.

But but but they aren't buying stuff from us it's not faaaair 😭

JFC, he actually sent this to another country? It sounds like a 10 year old wrote it

He has the intellect of a 10 year old.

I just figured they’d have a grown write the actual letter

Believe he was overhead while signing EO's saying, "What am I signing?"

Further prof that he doesn’t know what tariffs are. Doesn’t he have a finance guy to help him out?

*proof

Do you think he actually knows what tariffs are?

He still thinks and states that the other countries pay the stupid things. His ignorance is staggering.

I doubt that Trump could find Korea on a map

Facts and data are not a quality of the GQP or the willfully ignorant followers.

It's because he made up "trade deficits" and has zero understanding of world trade.

They were all the same form letters, all they had to do was change the names

Trump, the Tariff Queen

"MOM! Grampa's writing letters again!"

He sent some more to….. 1/ The South Pole… Those toys 🧸 ain’t going down no chimney without a 45% Tax. 2/ Mordor… Those rings were made in China 🇨🇳 then rerouted, 65% Tax. 3/ Heaven… There’s a lot more praying 🙏 going on since I took office. Welp! It’s time to pay up 75% Tax. We’re looking at Hell….

The fascists running the regime let the demented sociopath out of his padded cell when they want to distract us from seeing how they are burning our country to the ground

In the mind of Donald Trump, any individual nation with which we have a trade deficit is ripping us off, regardless of whether they are charging us a tariff. The trade deficit can only be explained by a trade barrier. He wants to run a trade surplus individually with each trading partner.

The funniest part is a trade deficit isn’t a bad thing and causes absolutely no harm/good. This entire administration is full of dolts. This is just another way to steal from the poor to give to the rich in the form of a subsidy.

The trade deficit could also be explained by there being next to nothing that other countries want to buy from the USA.

Why are you or is anyone surprised. The man is a moron.

What a moron...just another day in Dystopia

Also please word these headlines to be more accurate The U.S. has issued a 25% tariff on Americans who buy products from Korea

He doesn't know how to tie his own shoes according to his niece...

The US doesn't want to trade with anyone. The reaction of the world will become: ok.. This will accelerate national decline via inflation, besides the other trunpian factors

Korea? Was he using a map from 1945?

Love Justin

Australia also has a Free Trade Agreement with the USA, obviously not worth the paper it was written on. Why sign the thing when a moron President can override it anyway.

Technically a the POTUS can’t do what they are trying to do; in this case so many of the people that should be holding the idiot to accountants are not, thus capitulation through inaction allows his idiocy to continue despite being illegal.

Must be Waco Taco week

He doesn't. He just ruins the fragile paper with his megalomaniac signature

“Korea”? Um, there's no country by that name. There's the Republic of Korea (South Korea), and the Democratic [sic] People's Republic of Korea (North Korea). But i don't know of a country named simply “Korea”.

Lawrence O'Donnell said last night "Trump proved once again today beyond a reasonable doubt that he does not know what he is doing." "No president in American history has ever sent a more economically illiterate letter to a foreign government than Trump just did with his latest tariff threats."

I wholeheartedly believe that the South Korean leader is capable of constructing a more intelligent letter in English than 🍊💩 ever could. He literally sounds like that kid who wanted to appear smart so they used the thesaurus… Only incorrectly. How embarrassing.

He is trying to get them to move their companies to the US but he doesn't understand that it takes capital and time to do so... IF it is what companies want to do. My feeling is South Korea just turns to other sources of imports but not from the US.

Not to mention the need for a consistent and enduring economic policy. The constant changes leave an environment where no business is going to invest and only encourages them to hold off and wait for the next mood swing.

Was it even him, who sent them?

Answer to 'why' is easy: Because he wants to, period.

And still Delusional about who Pays Tariffs.

He’s clueless about most things

Those poor penguins.

He probably doesn’t even know if.

Bingo

But isn't that the whole problem? Free trade without tariffs prevents the government from getting a cut of everything people and companies buy.

www.bnnbloomberg.ca/tariffs/2025...

Does nobody check his letters for grammar? Reading it is like hearing fingernails scratch down a blackboard.

And a 200% tariff proposed for pharmaceutical products? I thought he claimed he was going to lower pharma prices.

My god, this 90 deals in 90 days is shaping up to be the longest twelve-movie saga of my life. Does anyone know when intermission is? I'm getting bored, this sequel is just like the last 3.

Intermission is at 24 months…maybe…if there is one…

Equally strange that it is "a Great Honor" to send this letter to a trading partner. As of insulting someone should be a great joy for them.

Trump is a moron.

What Does Trump Want? Simple. He likes tariffs—expect them across the board. What lowers them? Likely big monthly donations to his meme-coin or similar. Trump prioritizes personal gain. A 15–20% tariff on major imports and $20M/month in "gifts" wouldn’t be surprising.

Okay, this is small, and maybe Petty, but... why is Trade in all caps?! I mean, I get he posts like that and in casual text based communications is often used for emphasis, but I assume this is a formal letter to either a foreign HOS or Foreign dignitary, not a text... WTF?!

They probably don’t even know where to send them and just address them to a name in Tokyo Japan (example) and toss them in the post. The FOTUS administration is full of dimwitted bigots that have no business existing on the planet.

It's not petty. They are official communication from our government. It's embarrassing but not unexpected. Stupidity is an enduring feature, not a bug.

It's not small and petty. He sent a Truth Social post directly to heads of state of major trading partners and most important allies.

Oh, he knows. The tariff letters went out to countries that aren't full of white people

In Australia, we'd say T$ump doesn't know his a$rse from his elbow. We've given up trying to make sense of anything he and his cronies do, except that we know it'll all be crap.

government of the stupid

😂

It's a Canadian thing too, most often shouted at referees as an accusation during hockey season...

Really? Didn't know that. Another commonality with our northern cousins 😊

We say it in Ireland as well.

Our Irish ancestors must've brought it over back in the 18th & 19th centuries 😊

yes...they were probably deported for wanting human rights...the parallels with todays USA are uncanny.

Some came to Australia through scheme to get orphaned & destitute young women out of Irish workhouses during the potato famine so they could help populate the colony - but yes, I think others may have been transported because they stood up for justice 🙂

And a British saying too!

In a genius move that has top businesspeople saying, 'why didn't I think of that?', trump will direct his staff to find out where they live, and leave strongly worded letters on the windshields of the cars of Mr. Japan and Mr. European Union if they don't make a deal soon.

Someone needs to remind him that when he's looking for Mr. Canada, he needs to specify or he's getting the default Mr. Canada, Ryan Reynolds.

Yes, and since Ryan's snowmobile doesn't have windshield wipers, they'll have to wedge the letter between the seat cushions.

Ahaha! Hopefully its parked in Churchill Manitoba...

Yeah, well there ya go with facts again. The cult operates on feelings.

Yeah, but those damned penguins are finally gonna pay their share!

He’s upset at the trade deal he negotiated with Canada and Mexico.

"the number one market in the world" welllllll ..... 🤔

Of course trump knows who he sent those letters too. Mr. Japan. Or maybe Kim Jong Un. Isn't he Mr Korea?

First, Trump is a human auto pen. We’ve watched him sign EOs where it’s obvious that the signing ceremony is the first time he’s ever heard of them. But what’s frightening with the tariff letters, is apparently, no one with actual knowledge of our trade agreements is working in the WH.

Somebody maybe needs to tell Felon47? OR maybe Korea needs to know say hey we HAD a free trade agreement, we're matching your tariffs. Thanks.

The letters were likely written by AI

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