Trump says he’s negotiated 200 trade deals — but won’t say with whom

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The United States has already struck 200 trade deals, President Donald Trump said in an interview this week — but he refused to say with whom.

Trump’s comments come just two weeks after he announced a 90-day pause on most of the sweeping global tariffs he imposed earlier this month to allow time for trade negotiations with hundreds of countries slugged by the punishing levies. Only China was exempted from the 90-day pause.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/25/trump-200-trade-deals-time-interview-trade-war-tariffs-00309294

 

And in a similar foray into the improbable...

Trump reiterates that he spoke with China's Xi, offers no details

WASHINGTON, April 25 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he had spoken with Chinese President Xi Jinping numerous times but did not say when the two leaders last talked or what topics they discussed.

Asked whether he has spoken with Xi since enacting his tariff plan, Trump told reporters: "I don't want to comment on that, but I've spoken to him numerous times."

Trump's comments came shortly after TIME magazine published an interview that quoted the Republican president as saying that Xi had called him.

https://archive.ph/8xJ1z

 

 

 

[Jim Blue]

209 deals ..that 's a lot of penguins ...

[Presnock]

2 minutes ago, placeholder said:

The United States has already struck 200 trade deals, President Donald Trump said in an interview this week — but he refused to say with whom.

Trump’s comments come just two weeks after he announced a 90-day pause on most of the sweeping global tariffs he imposed earlier this month to allow time for trade negotiations with hundreds of countries slugged by the punishing levies. Only China was exempted from the 90-day pause.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/25/trump-200-trade-deals-time-interview-trade-war-tariffs-00309294

 

And in a similar foray into the improbable...

Trump reiterates that he spoke with China's Xi, offers no details

WASHINGTON, April 25 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he had spoken with Chinese President Xi Jinping numerous times but did not say when the two leaders last talked or what topics they discussed.

Asked whether he has spoken with Xi since enacting his tariff plan, Trump told reporters: "I don't want to comment on that, but I've spoken to him numerous times."

Trump's comments came shortly after TIME magazine published an interview that quoted the Republican president as saying that Xi had called him.

https://archive.ph/8xJ1z

 

 

 

Yeah number one was the NAFTA trade agreement between Mexico the US and Canada - the one that he aloud wondered who was the Idiot that negotiated this agreement- Himself of course!! A total idiot - now he continues to lie every day about how so many negotiations are underway.  I realize that a lot of countries may want to re-negotiate their trade too - maybe some good will come of it but I don't think it is very wise to thrown one's close allies under the bus so to speak.  IMHO the rich are not going to build any new factories in the next decade - and wonder where all the necessary raw materials for whatever they do decide might be worthwhile and inexpensive.  And, unless they see some stability on the world trade situation then they won't even consider building something to be manned by robotics, not US workers that Trump says will be take care of and make them rich!  Guess a lot of offers must be coming in for the Brooklyn Bridge!

[bamnutsak]

Maybe they're rejiggering his dementia meds?

 

"We are a department store". WTAF. 

 

https://time.com/7280114/donald-trump-2025-interview-transcript/

 

When are they going to be announced? 

 

You have to understand, I'm dealing with all the companies, very friendly countries. We're meeting with China. We're doing fine with everybody. But ultimately, I've made all the deals.

Not one has been announced yet. When are you going to announce them?

I’ve made 200 deals.

 

You’ve made 200 deals?

100%.

 

Can you share with whom?

Because the deal is a deal that I choose. View it differently: We are a department store, and we set the price. I meet with the companies, and then I set a fair price, what I consider to be a fair price, and they can pay it, or they don't have to pay it. They don't have to do business with the United States, but I set a tariff on countries. Some have been horrible to us. Some have been okay. Nobody's been great. Nobody's been great. Everybody took advantage of us. What I'm doing is I will, at a certain point in the not too distant future, I will set a fair price of tariffs for different countries. These are countries—some of them have made hundreds of billions of dollars, and some of them have made just a lot of money. Very few of them have made nothing because the United States was being ripped off by every, almost every country in the world, in the entire world. So I will set a price, and when I set the price, and I will set it fairly according to the statistics, and according to everything else. For instance, do they have the VAT system in play? Do they charge us tariffs? How much are they charging us? How much have they been charging us? Many, many different factors, right. How are we being treated by that country? And then I will set a tariff. Are we paying for their military? You know, as an example, we have Korea. We pay billions of dollars for the military. Japan, billions for those and others. But that, I'm going to keep us a separate item, the paying of the military. Germany, we have 50,000 soldiers—

[Tug]

It’s just the usual nonsense for his rubes (base) create a problem then pretend to fix it.will they ever realize it and get tired of being gas lit?

[jerrymahoney]

Headline today NY Times:

Trump Claims He’s Negotiating With China on Trade. China Says Otherwise.

President Trump said that “we’re meeting with China” on tariffs, comments aimed at soothing jittery financial markets. But Chinese officials say no talks have taken place.

[JimHuaHin]

I think Trump was referring to domestic trade after discussions will his billionaire friends.

[HappyExpat57]

I really wonder how people can be so bored as to go back and forth debating the merit or lack thereof of a prolific lying SOB.

 

Fox lovers will defend him emotionally with no facts to back their false-media-fueled BS, people who deal with facts will try and point them out hoping to convince the blockheaded inconvincible of truth.

 

I used to jump right into the middle of these forays until it finally hit me - there is no changing the hearts and minds of those who willfully refuse to admit they were wrong.

 

(and for every "thumbs down" I get, I know I owned a MAGAt)

[jerrymahoney]

REDUX

jerrymahoney
Posted April 4

Donald Trump said in his 1990 Playboy interview:

"The Japanese cajole us, they bow to us, they tell us how great we are and then they pick our pockets. We're losing hundreds of billions of dollars a year while they laugh at our stupidity."

That's how he saw the world 35 years ago. Little has changed.

[candide]

Trump is a ridiculous liar! 🤣

 

https://time.com/7280114/donald-trump-2025-interview-transcript/

 

Extract one:

Not one has been announced yet. When are you going to announce them?

I’ve made 200 deals. 

You’ve made 200 deals?

100%. 🤣

Can you share with whom?

Because the deal is a deal that I choose. View it differently: We are a department store, and we set the price. I meet with the companies, and then I set a fair price, (more blah blah follows, no country cited)

 

Extract 2:

 

Will you call President Xi if he doesn’t call you? 

No.

You won’t? 

Nope.

Has he called you yet? 

Yep. 🤣

When did he call you? 

He's called. And I don't think that's a sign of weakness on his behalf. 🤣

But you would think it’s a sign of weakness if you called him?

I don’t–I just look—

Well, what did he say? 

If people want to–well, we all want to make deals. But I am this giant store. It's a giant, beautiful store, and everybody wants to go shopping there. And on behalf of the American people, I own the store, and I set prices, and I'll say, if you want to shop here, this is what you have to pay.

[BLMFem]

2 hours ago, candide said:

Trump is a ridiculous liar! 🤣

 

https://time.com/7280114/donald-trump-2025-interview-transcript/

 

Extract one:

Not one has been announced yet. When are you going to announce them?

I’ve made 200 deals. 

You’ve made 200 deals?

100%. 🤣

Can you share with whom?

Because the deal is a deal that I choose. View it differently: We are a department store, and we set the price. I meet with the companies, and then I set a fair price, (more blah blah follows, no country cited)

 

Extract 2:

 

Will you call President Xi if he doesn’t call you? 

No.

You won’t? 

Nope.

Has he called you yet? 

Yep. 🤣

When did he call you? 

He's called. And I don't think that's a sign of weakness on his behalf. 🤣

But you would think it’s a sign of weakness if you called him?

I don’t–I just look—

Well, what did he say? 

If people want to–well, we all want to make deals. But I am this giant store. It's a giant, beautiful store, and everybody wants to go shopping there. And on behalf of the American people, I own the store, and I set prices, and I'll say, if you want to shop here, this is what you have to pay.

 

The clown's mental decline is so obvious. Next year he'll probably just sit in a corner drooling.

[Harrisfan]

2 hours ago, candide said:

Trump is a ridiculous liar! 🤣

 

https://time.com/7280114/donald-trump-2025-interview-transcript/

 

Extract one:

Not one has been announced yet. When are you going to announce them?

I’ve made 200 deals. 

You’ve made 200 deals?

100%. 🤣

Can you share with whom?

Because the deal is a deal that I choose. View it differently: We are a department store, and we set the price. I meet with the companies, and then I set a fair price, (more blah blah follows, no country cited)

 

Extract 2:

 

Will you call President Xi if he doesn’t call you? 

No.

You won’t? 

Nope.

Has he called you yet? 

Yep. 🤣

When did he call you? 

He's called. And I don't think that's a sign of weakness on his behalf. 🤣

But you would think it’s a sign of weakness if you called him?

I don’t–I just look—

Well, what did he say? 

If people want to–well, we all want to make deals. But I am this giant store. It's a giant, beautiful store, and everybody wants to go shopping there. And on behalf of the American people, I own the store, and I set prices, and I'll say, if you want to shop here, this is what you have to pay.

Trump on the brain

[BLMFem]

29 minutes ago, Harrisfan said:

Trump on the brain

Who cares.

[Tug]

28 minutes ago, Harrisfan said:

Trump on the brain

Well when a wanna be despot is wrecking your country and damaging your friends decent people speak up the bottom slime defend the offal its high time to flush!

[Harrisfan]

Just now, Tug said:

Well when a wanna be despot is wrecking your country and damaging your friends decent people speak up the bottom slime defend the offal its high time to flush!

You guys need help

[SunnyinBangrak]

9 hours ago, Jim Blue said:

209 deals ..that 's a lot of penguins ...

And a lot of egg on the faces of the usual suspects that guaranteed us no good can ever come from Trumps tariffs. Egg on top of egg, on top of egg.

[BLMFem]

10 minutes ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

And a lot of egg on the faces of the usual suspects that guaranteed us no good can ever come from Trumps tariffs. Egg on top of egg, on top of egg.

Let us know when the penguins have signed, will ya Sunny?

[billd766]

10 hours ago, placeholder said:

The United States has already struck 200 trade deals, President Donald Trump said in an interview this week — but he refused to say with whom.

Trump’s comments come just two weeks after he announced a 90-day pause on most of the sweeping global tariffs he imposed earlier this month to allow time for trade negotiations with hundreds of countries slugged by the punishing levies. Only China was exempted from the 90-day pause.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/25/trump-200-trade-deals-time-interview-trade-war-tariffs-00309294

 

And in a similar foray into the improbable...

Trump reiterates that he spoke with China's Xi, offers no details

WASHINGTON, April 25 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he had spoken with Chinese President Xi Jinping numerous times but did not say when the two leaders last talked or what topics they discussed.

Asked whether he has spoken with Xi since enacting his tariff plan, Trump told reporters: "I don't want to comment on that, but I've spoken to him numerous times."

Trump's comments came shortly after TIME magazine published an interview that quoted the Republican president as saying that Xi had called him.

https://archive.ph/8xJ1z

 

 

 

If he has negotiated 200 trade deals, and he has spoken to President Xi in the last few days, he would be shouting it from the rooftops.

 

OTOH if he won't talk about that then it is a fair bet that he has not, because there is no confirmation of anything, other than his word, and by now the world, other than MAGA know what that is worth.

 

I have just done an internet search and all except 2 show the same as the OP.

 

However ABC news 19 hours ago has a report from China refuting this, 

 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-26/donald-trumps-says-he-spoke-with-china-xi-jinping/105218400

 

and NHK news from 11 hours ago say much the same.

thing. 

 

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20250426_N01/

[worgeordie]

Making deals with himself , in his head , and they thought Biden was demented ...

 

regards Worgeordie

[Tug]

22 minutes ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

And a lot of egg on the faces of the usual suspects that guaranteed us no good can ever come from Trumps tariffs. Egg on top of egg, on top of egg.

When did trump learn to speak penguin?