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Typical fascist move to grab total power. There was no such "emergency" in reality.

Better medical care? Are you flippin' serious? This is the same sleaze bucket that tried so hard to kill the ACA with no replacement whatsoever. Trump 2.0 / Musk is already going for massive cuts to Medicaid. Doge has also gutted government help for medical research, Such as improving cancer treatments. GONE. You're dreaming, buddy. Any savings are only for the oligarch's tax cuts.

That's old news at this point. We already know that the felon in chief has no respect for the constitution and the rule of law,

It's not even clear yet whether he even wants to negotiate significantly at this point! Yes he's a mentally ill narcissist and very much loves when people all over the world grovels to him. But two of stated goals of this trade war on the world and American consumers contradict lowering tariffs. Namely his stated goal of stimulating a shift to domestic production and also his stated goal of replacing income taxes with tariffs as much as possible. Don't try to sane wash a clearly insane president.

The economist magazine pegs Trump's moronic national suicidal action perfectly.

US products will actually get more expensive too. Before the ruinous Trump Tariff Tax they had to compete with better value imports. Now with those imports priced out for many, they get the gift of more PRICING POWER to raise their prices and profits because the free market competition is now gone. DUH.

Another thought that occurs to me that goes beyond Thailand. You know how different countries acquire national stereotypes. Fairly or not. It doesn't matter. It's a reality. Americans have that -- loud, arrogant, tendency to think that the entire world is supposed to run like back home "I have my rights" Karen type of idiocy. What will an insane self destructive government that voluntarily is exiting polite world society do to these stereotypes. I'm thinking of things like how landlords might stereotype applicants based on national stereotypes. Like knee jerk feelings that a Swiss applicant is a much better bet than a Colombian. Just thinking out loud here. I don't know the answer. But it does seem to me that this new end of traditional role of America for decades now might bleed into typical stereotypes of Americans. Of course the current stereotype isn't the best, but there's always room to get worse.

And pigs could fly. Why would they do that when they can just sell more to other markets. Americans are going to learn the very hard way that there is a big world outside the USA and their intentional radical isolation and trade war on the entire world is going to damage their prosperity, probably permanently. The champagne is popping in Beijing. I really can't process the maga fascist cult members that actually think what Trump did was smart.

Like Trump you're talking in contradictions. If you really want this tariff bomb to create a boom in US manufacturing, then that would take 5 to 10 years to get real results. The tariff policy would need to stick so that businesses could begin to trust the US government a little bit. If you're only using the tariff bomb to try to force negotiations, you can totally forget that first goal. Trump has started a WAR. Easy to start wars, hard to end them. China and others such as Canada will not grovel. They will escalate. Nobody wins. Everyone gets hurt. Especially American consumers. A third contradictory goal you haven't mentioned but the Trump regime has is to use tariffs (paid by Americans) to replace the regular income tax system as much as possible. Again if they are negotiated away, you don't get that goal either. What Trump did was INSANE.

You're getting into higher level probably above your level economic ideology here. Any tariffs are protectionist. Free traders favor no tariffs even when the other country has them. Fair traders favor reciprocal tariffs case by case. The above two are both reasonable positions to take. Only totally INSANE economics would have what Trump just did.

To get the actual correct tariff rate for ALL imported US trade to Colombia you'd need to do a complex calculation with weighted averages etc. I don't have that number. Trump didn't even care to know it. We should expect much much more of our leaders. Tariffs can be used intelligently but not CHAINSAW style not even based on reciprocity as Trump has just done intentionally blowing up the global economy.

You're confused. Again -- tariffs have nothing to do with trade imbalance. Here's an elementary example especially for you. Colombia is great at growing coffee. The USA only grows coffee in Hawaii. Americans drink mega tons of coffee. Thus Colombia sells much more to the USA than vice versa on top of having a much smaller population. That is not a bad thing. That is a good thing. Our moronic president thinks ALL trade imbalances are bad. Any country would be looking for zero tariff. Trump's Tax Tariffs (tax spike for Americans) has been applied incredibly unfairly not based on tariff reciprocity at all. Some countries such as China will retaliate as Trump started a global trade WAR. Some like Singapore will stay quiet and be happy with 10 percent (also unfair). Some will grovel. Grovelling doesn't mean they will get results. Of course Trump being a mentally ill narcissist does love the groveling best.

The actual thing that has been done has been posted several times on this forum with links. You're just believing the Trump lies totally uncritically. Here's a start for you. The tariffs Trump announced have absolutely nothing to do with tariffs on the U.S. They're about a bizarre formula related to trade imbalances. Completely different and NOTHING reciprocal about them. Again, maybe get educated just a little bit before posting.

You're not posting in good faith. You're making stuff up and are mostly about obnoxious personal attacks. Waste of everyone's time. BYE.

That's not what was done. Maybe come back when you're updated on the actual news.

Didn't happen.

You're the one that clearly needs help.

The Kremlin propagandists are loving it!

Of course golf is more important!

He's not a well man physically or mentally. 2028? Hardly likely.

He should be ousted but I don't know how that could happen. A president can't be impeached for bad policies. That said there are multiple impeachable offenses he has already committed and more to come. But it's ultimately about political will. His approval rating would need to go down to the bare bones hard core maga fascist cult. So a low of 30 percent. Then enough republicans in the house and senate would need to step up and do the right thing. Possible perhaps if they saw personal political benefit from doing that. I do predict MASSIVE STREET ACTIONS. It has already started this weekend. There will be millions protesting in DC sooner or later. But I don't know how street actions can depose a US president. He would likely call martial law and kill many of them. That might add to the first scenario -- political pressure to impeach. I'm only predicting the mass street actions. 100 percent confident in that part.

Wow. I must say my sneaker example was really spot on. Nike (the sneaker factory people in Vietnam) says they will NOT build sneaker factories in the US. They realize they will now sell many fewer sneaks to Americans who won't be able to afford them with the the Trump Tax Tariffs addeed so they'll simply sell to other markets. SUCH AS THAILAND! Without the Trump Tax Tariffs. www.benzinga.com/markets/equities/25/04/44640220/peter-schiff-says-nike-wont-build-factories-in-us-they-will-sell-to-countries-like-china-a-much-better-strategy-amid-trump-tariffs Peter Schiff Says Nike 'Won't Build Factories' In US, They Will Sell To Countries Like China: A Much Better Strategy Amid Trump Tariffs - Lululemon Athletica (NASDAQ:LULU), Columbia Sportswear (NASDAQ:COLM) - Benzinga

It's always been Putin's propaganda line to assert that there are no grounds to criticize him because the USA is just as bad. I'm saddened to say that the Trump version of the USA is trending towards being even worse.

Everyone who has been paying attention would have guessed. The sleazeball narcissistf felon in chief always goes lower. On that you can bank (if you've got anything left).

Sadly, too late for that. He already has.