Trump’s Tariffs Were Supposed to Boost the Dollar. Why the Opposite Happened.

Duh! He wants a lower $ so the US can sell more stuff to the rest of the world.

 

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1 minute ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Duh! He wants a lower $ so the US can sell more stuff to the rest of the world.

 

Next.

How dare you interrupt the foot stomping, salt flowing tantrum with logic, you naughty boy.

11 hours ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

How dare you interrupt the foot stomping, salt flowing tantrum with logic, you naughty boy.

Sorry about that. I couldn't stop myself. I know I should have had a tantrum and proclaim the end of civilization instead. Excuse me while I sit on the naughty step for a few hours with an I hate Trump hat on

11 hours ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

How dare you interrupt the foot stomping, salt flowing tantrum with logic, you naughty boy.

And it's a good thing that other countries won't respond with countervailing tariffs because you know... logic...

11 hours ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

How dare you interrupt the foot stomping, salt flowing tantrum with logic, you naughty boy.

 

23 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Sorry about that. I couldn't stop myself. I know I should have had a tantrum and proclaim the end of civilization instead. Excuse me while I sit on the naughty step for a few hours with an I hate Trump hat on

We will see how this plays out hummm?oh and when folks see their retirement get destroyed by the wim of a mentally ill New York trust fund baby they do tend to get a bit peevish,

26 minutes ago, gargamon said:

Can we tweet that hat a little bit to say make trump go away the chaos will stop and I have a feeling some of the republicans will find their spines again.

12 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Duh! He wants a lower $ so the US can sell more stuff to the rest of the world.

Which the rest of the world won't buy.. Look at Elon's <deleted>.

I don't OP understands the meaning of the word ... 'tanking' 

4 hours ago, placeholder said:

And it's a good thing that other countries won't respond with countervailing tariffs because you know... logic...

They are too busy crawling to the table to kiss the feet of the Master.

4 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

They are too busy crawling to the table to kiss the feet of the Master.

Really? TChina? Is the EU crawling? Canada? Mexico? Japan?Those are the 5 biggest trading partners of the USA.

In terms of nasty and reckless moves, one that stands out for me is the gutting of U.S.A.I.D., because it’s illegal and because it’s so flagrantly immoral and utterly self-destructive. During the first Trump term, I would sometimes have to catch myself because even though I thought and think that Trump is uniquely despicable and dangerous, the fact remains that if you just want to look at the number of lives lost and global damage done, George W. Bush really outstripped him. Trump is maybe a worse person, but the damage that he did in his first term was much more contained.

 

I think that in the second Trump term he’s changed that very quickly. Not just by taking America’s soft power and setting it on fire in all sorts of ways, but really making these abrupt decisions that are going to kill hundreds of thousands and maybe more than a million people and he’s doing it in this incredibly arbitrary, careless way.

 

I don’t think he has a coherent value structure as most of us understand it. I think we’re seeing a president who’s operating without anything any of us would recognize as a conscience. Truly. It is about showing what he can get away with. It’s about showing his enemies that what they support, he can tear down. It is all about displays of brute strength. He gets off on that, and in that sense, it seems not so much an autocracy but a flexocracy. Let me show you how I can flex my bicep as I use it to power my fist coming into your face.

 

It’s not about any coherent values. It’s not about any North Star. It’s about showing that you can turn the boat 180 degrees around and that you can do whatever you want and you can bring the people who opposed you to their knees. Trump’s idea of power. If I can destroy, if I can defile and march on relatively unscathed and unpunished, that makes me powerful. Other people can’t get away with it, but that’s how dominant and superior I am.

 

Trump would not be where he is without the deep state or a similarly sinister organization or group of very powerful people who put him in that place, and are allowing him to conduct these extremely destructive economic policies. As reckless and as poorly thought out as all this seems, I think it's actually deliberate economic sabotage.

 

Unfortunately the average American and the average person without wealth throughout the world will end up being the victims. Tens of millions of Trump supporters will be very surprised at the end result, and it won't be a pleasant surprise. 

 

 

 

 

4 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

In terms of nasty and reckless moves, one that stands out for me is the gutting of U.S.A.I.D., because it’s illegal a

Wonderful. I love the way you make the first sentence your primary lie so that its not necessary to read the rest of your America hating, clickbait, AI/plagiarized drivel.

16 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Duh! He wants a lower $ so the US can sell more stuff to the rest of the world.

 

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Duh, someone has to make the stuff in America first that people might buy.. Bullying trading partners to buy something is the stuff of gangster shakedown movies. There's usually a lot of bloodshed in those movies also.

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1 hour ago, Yagoda said:

Wonderful. I love the way you make the first sentence your primary lie so that its not necessary to read the rest of your America hating, clickbait, AI/plagiarized drivel.

You just gotta try and not equate every post critical of the moron in the WH with hating the US. It's lame and obvious and doesn't convince anybody.

2 minutes ago, BLMFem said:

You just gotta try and not equate every post critical of the moron in the WH with hating the US. It's lame and obvious and doesn't convince anybody.

 

  It's called "projection." 

 

  The ignorant cheerleaders on here applauding the ongoing destruction of the USA are the anti-Americans.

 

  

9 minutes ago, BLMFem said:

You just gotta try and not equate every post critical of the moron in the WH with hating the US. It's lame and obvious and doesn't convince anybody.

You havent been here long enough. Keep trolling.

 

BTW, how bout that jobs report?

16 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

You havent been here long enough. Keep trolling.

 

BTW, how bout that jobs report?

Where is "here" and what is the relevance?

23 hours ago, BLMFem said:

Trump’s Tariffs Were Supposed to Boost the Dollar. Why the Opposite Happened.

I am curious... if the dollar got weaker then why is the Thai baht at 34.5 currently? Yesterday it was at 34.4 which seems to show the Dollar stable and/or stronger. 

55 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

You havent been here long enough. Keep trolling.

 

BTW, how bout that jobs report?

Yes, about that:

 

March jobs report: U.S. adds 228,000 new jobs — but that was before Trump’s tariff event

https://www.marketwatch.com/livecoverage/march-2025-jobs-powell-today/card/march-jobs-report-u-s-adds-228-000-new-jobs-but-that-was-before-big-tariffs-4fKmmC2gibQC9hZaexDO

 

The increase in hiring was concentrated in companies that tend to see pickup in business when the weather warms. Unusually cold weather in the first two months of the year depressed employment.

The unemployment rate, meanwhile, moved up to 4.2% from 4.1%, matching the highest rate in five months.

The latest snapshot of the labor market was taken before Trump announced the biggest U.S. tariffs since the Great Depression in the 1930s.

American arrogance has always been around and much before Trump. Sorry. I

 

n fact, he is more open to a informal chat then some of the others before him in office. 

 

And if he has crashed the dollar, nothing better for exporting and reboosting american industries.

 

Time has come for America to leave the world alone and let each nation handle it's own issues with no USA meddling. Sorry, no offense please.

I just checked on XE and it is 34.39 to $1.  This is tanking? 

11 minutes ago, sqwakvfr said:

I just checked on XE and it is 34.39 to $1.  This is tanking? 

 

This is tanking together.

 

 

 

 

1 hour ago, sqwakvfr said:

I just checked on XE and it is 34.39 to $1.  This is tanking? 

Because the baht is a major world currency?

20 minutes ago, placeholder said:

Because the baht is a major world currency?

Really?  

4 minutes ago, sqwakvfr said:

Really?  

My comment was a question not an assertion.

21 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Duh! He wants a lower $ so the US can sell more stuff to the rest of the world.

 

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That would work... IF the raw materials for the stuff the US makes were sourced in the USA. But.... 

 

PS Russia is noticeable by its absence from the increased tariff list. Who do you think told Trump to make this move? 

21 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Duh! He wants a lower $ so the US can sell more stuff to the rest of the world.

 

Next.

Doesn't work that way when you alienate all your allies with the moronic crap he's doing and they retaliate with like tariffs and boycotts of US products. 

3 hours ago, BLMFem said:

Yes, about that:

 

March jobs report: U.S. adds 228,000 new jobs — but that was before Trump’s tariff event

https://www.marketwatch.com/livecoverage/march-2025-jobs-powell-today/card/march-jobs-report-u-s-adds-228-000-new-jobs-but-that-was-before-big-tariffs-4fKmmC2gibQC9hZaexDO

 

The increase in hiring was concentrated in companies that tend to see pickup in business when the weather warms. Unusually cold weather in the first two months of the year depressed employment.

The unemployment rate, meanwhile, moved up to 4.2% from 4.1%, matching the highest rate in five months.

The latest snapshot of the labor market was taken before Trump announced the biggest U.S. tariffs since the Great Depression in the 1930s.

You should use quotes on stuff you lift from others.

 

Bet you are just praying for an economic crash, arent you?

 

Wonder what your "but" will be on the next news.