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The good old Trump. Every business he has attempted to run has failed miserably (Trump steaks, Trump University,Trump airlines etc etc). And people think this will Make America Wealthy. Nope America will just be cut out of the supply chain and it's consumers will pay more. Americans think America is too big to fail..well I think Trump with his business acumen will test that theory. Yanks just don't coming running to the rest of the world when it all goes tits up.

Gonna hurt US consumers more than anyone. “plundered and stolen from” lol. He has no clue about economics. The US has benefitted hugely in price and diversity from everyone that sells to them. They can’t make most of what they buy in.

Oof. Thats gonna hurt for thailand losing the american consumer. Maybe they should drop their tariffs against the US

An Thais and the rest of the world will shun American products. How the Tesla stock price doing?

Who the fork are these people to order others what to sell...if they don't like they can buy off the products and throw them away.. These people are making a living in their own country if you don't like go back to your country...

You people vastly underestimate the power of american consumerism. Thailand is toast

Reduce the greedy protectionist tariffs and the numbers will come down - do nothing and there's plenty of scope for them to go up and match 100% like for like. Right now they're getting a big discount - even with the new increased rate - the discount is there for when they think they can negotiate. I read earlier that Vietnam already removed their tariffs in response to this. So Vietnam is all set, in fact there's a growing list of countries who immediately reduced their tariffs.

Americans will simply not buy products from Thailand. Thai businesses will be forced to either shut down or move to the US

These are the final days of the US dollar as reserve currency. The more the world is forced to disengage with the Americans, the less valuable it becomes as vehicle of trade. And with the reserve currency gone, also the political influence of the US will be gone. Good riddance, I say! The better reserve currency would be the Euro, or maybe a basket of Euro and Yuan: much more reliable, and by nations who understand equal trade.

Rubbish, I say no to mobile devices everyday..Japan (everyone) has a paper backup as they realise that digital is not the be all and end all and not failure proof..thank goodness they even have notepads and pencils at air traffic control in case the systems go down...positively stone age ehh ? More rubbish security and efficiency effected by not having a mobile phone ?? what security ?? I suppose you will be first inline for the implanted digital ID card/gps tracker/health tracker/social credit and carbon score checker for your own "security" of course soon after that there will be no need for travel you can just plug into the "metaverse" and go wherever and do whatever from the comfort of your pod !! 🤢

National economic suicide. The biggest tax rise for U.S. consumers in history. Too bad he skipped his classes at economics school. The idiocy is truly epic. Yet the maga cult will stick with him till the bitter end.

What Thai visa is she on?

But sometimes Thais make me want to pull out my hair. It was my son's 11th birthday. We organized an ice cream cake at Swensen's at the shopping mall his friends and him hangout at every Saturday. He chose a 3lb chocolate ice cream cake, and arranged with his friends to meet him here at the specified time. More than enough for the 7 or 8 of his friends that showed up. First came one of their mothers, a loud busybody that never shuts up, straight away she was into dragging my son to the fridge to go through all the different cakes even though he had already chosen it. Then going through the entire menu with him even though he had already chosen it. Every one sits down, the plates and glasses of water arrive, everyone is chatting and laughing. The busybody comes down with the menus and is in everyone's face going through every page getting them to order sundae's etc. There's a big ice cream cake coming, why not just sit down and shut up. She's making them choose then double choose then triple choose pointing out extras. Everyone's settled and laughing and joking and then she declares we're going to move tables to the slightly wider table behind. Everyone has their bags and toys and phones and plates and glasses of water out on the table already, most don't even hear her because they're in the zone. She forces everyone up to move to the other table. The sundaes she made everyone order even though the big cake was ordered and coming started arriving and she was up trying to organize who gets what and what extras do they they want, maybe add this, maybe add that why not get this too etc just sit down and shut up. Each kid gets a big slice of the 3lb cake and loves it, none can finish the slice of cake and their sundae, of course. It came to the end and I got up to pay and told the waitress to bill me for the only the cake. Of course this simple request almost melted the minds, brains and computer system in the store and took 10 minutes and numerous managers and staff to figure out. I paid the 800 baht for the cake and left, leaving the rest of the 1,700 baht bill for the busybody motormouth to take care of. Maybe next time she'll sit down and shut up and let everybody enjoy their own time. It's now going round on group chat's that my son's father is tight and stingy and not good. Thailand.

BREAKING NEWS: Influencer Elizabeth Important has broken a fingernail.

Can't blame the roads this time, it was a reckless motorbike rider without a helmet that basically killed himself.

A full face helmet is essential if you want to keep your face!

Good luck then, that Thailand has the largest consumer market right at its doorstep, China. Maybe it does not need American consumers at all; there will be a time of pain though, sure, but in the long run it is the USA that will hurt the most if it detaches from the whole world as a market.

I'm here for more than 30 years and have no intention to return home. Unfortunately I don't have a tiktok or youtube channel, but can I have my frontpage story anyway?

I rather guess that nobody in their right mind will ever buy American weapons again, if they can be switched off unilaterally, while Trump hits the buyers on top of it with his tariffs like they are literally the enemy. This alone will cost the American economy hundreds of billions.

How much do you charge?

She has the right to sell what she wants in her country. Nobody is forced to buy them. If the guy being pushed out of the shop is so upset, he has 2 choices. 1 He can buy them all and do what he wants with them. 2 He can simply walk on by and ignore the shirts, the shop and the owner. What he does NOT have the right to do. is to tell the owner what she can or cannot sell.

At least this guy stopped, normally thais run away !!

Don't worry, somewhere in Pattaya there is a Brit saying "Hold my beer" 😜

So we all may have run down Thailand in the past but you have to give them credit for certain areas that are by far better than many countries My wife was on her Yamaha Filano and the V-Belt snapped and was pushed to a small mechanic at 4pm He phoned and said he didn't have one but jumped on his bike to the dealer 15km each way. 5pm she was back on her bike happy again. Try doing this in any Western country. Similar thing happened with a washing machine Picked up in the morning with no power/faulty diplay and brought back in the afternoon fully working to our door. You have to admire the efficiency here I know back in the U.K it would take weeks . Let's appreciate the good things in Thailand as I see so many posts about how <deleted> it is here but I am really enjoying it here.

Maybe the Chinese did not have a hand in building it........ ?

Good thing it went down when it did and not in a couple of years full of office workers. How do they get away with it?

Trump won because he appeals to the uneducated masses, the American Idiot. The numpties. The simpletons. The inbreds. The deplorables. They don’t really understand policy, just short slogans.

Because he is doing a great job.

So flying, banking, and basically everything is for younger people only then. My parents. almost 80, feel clueless. with all the apps, QR codes, etc.... I witnessed an old lady in her 80's crying at an ATM machine because it didn't work and she had no phone to pay with. Nice society we have built together.

Shifting to where the U.S. does the low value grunt work and China takes over the high value tech and services. In Ttump's vulgar vernacular, he thinks he has all the cards but that is arrogant delusional buffoonery. The entire world will simply dump the U.S. The damage he's doing is PERMANENT.

You would have to be blind to think America was the greatest country on earth. Yes, yes. God bless America. And thank Christ I am not American.

Trump has lost his mind, but we knew it already and still the Americans elected him. Now they have senile man in power that will destroy much more than can be built up worldwide... Anyway America will loose in the end

Thailand will probably drop their tariffs once they feel the pain. Everything they do is a kneejerk reaction. They probably dont even understand why they have 90% tarriffs on the US

The more Chineese companies are allowed to partake in major construction projects the more likelihood of further disasters. Crooked Thai officials combined with Chineese developers spell trouble.

At least he died doing something he liked. RIP Joseph 🙏.....

My heart really goes out to the Burmese people who are already suffering so much under that horrific regime, and now this? What did those poor souls do to deserve all this suffering? I just hope miraculously that the death toll is not well into the thousands.

The unfortunate thing is that all if these good intentions will fall on deaf and dumb ears and nothing will actually be done. Talk is cheap and Thais love to talk but they don’t like to do.

Most europeans would dream of having a head of state like Trump. Mainly in Germany, France or in the UK or most of the nordic countries. That is also a fact fortunately or unfortunately - like it or not.

Your opinion. Step away from politics for a bit and maybe see people in a range outside of blue vs red. Seems to be consuming you in an unhealthy way.

She got the "It's OK, have farang pay" boomerang right back in her face, nicely done.

Thank goodness he was not British or we would never have heard the last of it on here 😉

You couldn't be farther from the truth....or reality. It is the bloated clown who is trying to destroy everything the US should be. He hates free speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly....the whole Constitution. Now he wants to play 18th Century Imperialist. He said Saturday, "100% we will take Greenland; using military force if necessary". Anyone who supports that idiocy is a traitor and an enemy of real patriots and an enemy of the free world. I do hope the Danes blow his friggin head off, as NATO Article 6 allows. In fact, any NATO member would be within their right to slaughter him. You are not smart enough to see reality. Leave important things to people with brains.

Livestream screenshot via Youtube Donald Trump has announced retaliatory tariffs on countries with which the U.S. has a trade deficit. The new tariffs, starting at 10%, affect a wide range of countries, with Thailand facing a 36% tariff. On 2nd April 2025, President Trump held a press conference at the White House announcing the implementation of tariffs on nearly all imported goods into the US, beginning at 10%. However, certain countries, including Thailand, will face much harsher tariffs due to significant trade deficits with the US. Under this new system, tariffs will vary across countries. While the UK, Brazil, and several others begin at 10%, Thailand faces a steep 36% tariff. Other nations are also heavily impacted, with Vietnam at 46% and Cambodia at 49%. During his announcement in the White House Rose Garden, Trump boldly declared, "The US has been plundered and stolen from by many nations, both ally and adversary." He touted the measure as a liberation for American industry, stating, "This will be remembered as the day American industry was reborn and America’s destiny reclaimed." Trump underscored this as a beginning of a new golden era for the US economy, also taking the opportunity to criticise previous trade relations with Canada and Mexico, both already subjected to a 25% tariff. Highlighting his strategy, Trump added, "This tariff is a partial response. We haven’t hit back fully as it would be burdensome for many nations, a step we wish to avoid." Moreover, the tariffs will extend to foreign-manufactured cars imported into the US, enforcing a 25% rate from midnight on 2nd April. Based on a story by Thai Rath, BBC, CNN -- 2025-04-03

This whole administration’s cabinet is a ship of fools and the biggest one is trump himself,I hope this idiot doesn’t get any kids killed.

Well firstly she needs sentenced to a couple of years at dance school.

You're depressed? What about us? We're the ones who have to read your posts.....

I recall when stalls were selling Osama Bin Laden T-shirts.... I thought at the time... there's a segment of society here that is incredibly juvenile and insensitive to world events. Of course, a simple T-Shirt can't harm anyone, but the imagery is powerful and this shows extreme ignorance - instead of defending herself, the vendor should be ashamed and embarrassed, as should anyone who purchases such items.

The guy looks like death already. Why even medevac him? Get him back and he dies? Can't they treat those ailments here?

Wonder if the tsunami early warning system is still working?

What is more primitive with Muay Thai, than other fighting sports? Also, it´s quite normal to be proud of a sport were a country do very good in it. If you think it´s boring, doesn´t make it so. It´s just a personal opinion.