America has emerged....as an international laughingstock

[Cameroni]

1 minute ago, candide said:

Source?

https://ig.ft.com/china-mexico-tariffs/

[GammaGlobulin]

I fear that the original poster is no Mark Twain.

 

 

But, is he a man of letters?

 

 

[Cameroni]

7 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

I fear that the original poster is no Mark Twain.

 

 

But, is he a man of letters?

 

 

 

Yes, he loves his ABC cereals.

[Digitalbanana]

56 minutes ago, Cameroni said:

 

Pfffft, so many, Vietnam, Japan, UK...too many to name.

Not one country has a trade deal agreed yet. Even on the weekend Bessent had to lie his way thro an interview speaking of only of "sub deals" but ignored answering whether deals with any country like "Vietnam, Japan, UK...too many to name" were done deals! 

 

Meanwhile next month mall shelves are projected to start to become empty.

[Tug]

1 hour ago, Cameroni said:

 

Cheap lies, he got 14 million. Turned into billions. Twice.

 

And refer to the president in a more respectful manner. I don't like how you talk about this great man.

You are mistaken he got 400 million+ a bunch of rentals from his dad not to mention several bailouts from his dad and when Mr trump the convicted felon sex offender stops sucking up to (I suspect your leader) putin and starts acting like an American president I might have a bit more respect I doubt it though.

[Cameroni]

15 minutes ago, Digitalbanana said:

Not one country has a trade deal agreed yet.

 

Obviously trade deals don't conclude within 3 days, lol.  It's not K-drama.

 

But negotiations are underway,.

[Cameroni]

3 minutes ago, Tug said:

You are mistaken he got 400 million+ a bunch of rentals from his dad not to mention several bailouts from his dad and when Mr trump the convicted felon sex offender stops sucking up to (I suspect your leader) putin and starts acting like an American president I might have a bit more respect I doubt it though.

 

Don't believe all the lies Kamala and the NYT tell you.

 

"The Times was not specific about how much Trump would have received from his father by the time he entered the real estate business with the family company, but it appears to be somewhere in the $1m to $2m range once adjusted for inflation. That is a lot — much more than Harris’s proposal of $50,000 for new startup businesses — but it is far below the $413m Harris cited.

 

Our ruling

 

Harris said Trump “started out with $400 million on a silver platter and then filed for bankruptcy six times”.

There is no question that the former president had a strong financial wind behind him when he started out, and he always had a reasonable expectation of inheriting a share of his father’s business. But he did not begin his business career with $400m available to him.

 

A comprehensive New York Times review of the Trump family finances in 2018 found that Donald Trump received $413m from Fred Trump or his estate over the course of his lifetime. However, all but perhaps $1m or $2m of that amount reached the son after he had already begun working for the family business."

 

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/22/fact-check-did-kamala-harris-exaggerate-scale-of-trumps-pre-career-inheritance

[Cameroni]

Just now, SunnyinBangrak said:

Contrary to the posters false claim, Trump never went bankrupt. Yes, some ventures failed - absolutely normal for serial entrepreneurs - but never Trump himself.

Just wanted to wipe away that bs left to misinform other irrational haters in which is a vicious cycle of getting triggered by lies and them making up more lies due to hatred caused by believing the initial lies. If it sounds very clown world, yes it sure is.

 

That's a very good point, six of his companies went bankrupt. He did not.

 

Good point.

[mikebike]

Just now, SunnyinBangrak said:

More disinformation/lies from a rich vein of them.

Contrary to the posters false claim, Trump never went bankrupt. Yes, some ventures failed - absolutely normal for serial entrepreneurs - but never Trump himself.

Just wanted to wipe away that bs left to misinform other irrational haters in which is a vicious cycle of getting triggered by lies and them making up more lies due to hatred caused by believing the initial lies. If it sounds very clown world, yes it sure is.

Useless post. We are ALL well aware of the difference between business and personal bankruptcy... 

[SunnyinBangrak]

5 minutes ago, mikebike said:

Useless post. We are ALL well aware of the difference between business and personal bankruptcy... 

You are now. Glad to keep you informed. Now wait a few hours and there will be more tantrums and false claims Trump went bankrupt repeated...and on and on it goes

[zmisha]

4 hours ago, TheAppletons said:

"What’s now increasingly obvious, however, is that Trump is in ragged retreat; he’s compromising all over the shop, such that if the plan was to upend the established global order, one can almost definitely say that, beyond the rhetoric, it is already over.

If you were told that somewhere in Africa a certain country Afrostan was at war with a country African Republic and after 3 years Afrostan began to retreat and compromise, what would you think? You would say - this is without a doubt the result of a change in the strategic balance of power in favor of the African Republic! However, in the case of a proxy war against Russia, for some reason you do not think so and put all the blame on Trump. Or maybe you were deceived when they said that Russia's nuclear weapons are cartoons and can never be used?

[BLMFem]

2 hours ago, Magictoad said:

I like & read the telegraph regularly but they've got it wrong here. This article is just to antagonise their regular readers.

 

Yes, that business model makes perfect sense. Like Trump 4D chess sense.

[BLMFem]

2 hours ago, Cameroni said:

 

Of course not, in the first presidency China was able to evade his tariffs by going through Canada and Mexico. Now they don't have that option anymore. Trump learnt from the first tariff war.

As the moron blasted the trade deal that he himself signed with Canada forgive me if I'm not buying into Trump learning anything at all.

[Mavideol]

4 hours ago, Cameroni said:

As nations are lining up to give the US what it wants and make new deals

not one deal has been made, NOT one

Trump Caught Red-Handed Lying in Crazy ’200 Deals’ Interview

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-caught-red-handed-lying-163719509.html

[Mavideol]

3 hours ago, Cameroni said:

 

Trump advisers say more than 50 countries have reached out for tariff talks with White House

 

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-advisers-say-more-than-50-countries-have-reached-out-for-tariff-talks-with-white-house

get your facts straight as the lady said nothing has been done

 

Trump Caught Red-Handed Lying in Crazy ’200 Deals’ Interview

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-caught-red-handed-lying-163719509.html

 

[BLMFem]

2 hours ago, save the frogs said:

He doesn't seem like a "laughing stock" in front of the President of Italy in this clip.

 

I don't know where you people are getting your information from. 

 

Your thread is a laughing stock, maybe. 

 

 

Look at what he's turned the Oval Office into. Not even Liberace would have gone for something so gaudy and classless.

It looks like a pimp's wet dream, which means that Trump and Hegseth fit right in.

[Screaming]

There was in interesting article today in the Bangkok Post describing how Thailand might enter a recession as early as the 2nd quarter:

https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/general/3012727/coping-with-a-sluggish-outlook

 

It was mentioned in this article that one reason for a potential recession was the new tariffs imposed on Thailand for its unfair trade policies against the United States. It was never mentioned in this article that anyone was laughing at the U.S. but hoped that Thailand would meet with U.S. officials to negotiate a fair trade agreement. The only people who are laughing at President Trump are those who have feeble minds.

[Mavideol]

2 hours ago, Cameroni said:

 

At pretty much everything, at life, in real estate, made billions of Dollars, in show business, had a top rated TV show, in politics, became president of the USA, twice.

 

How about you, what have you won in? Maybe list your accomplishments in this thread.

you forgot to mention "Good at bankruptcies as well as being impeached 3 x and convicted on more than 30 felonies"

[BLMFem]

1 hour ago, Mike_Hunt said:

 

You are boring. 

Well Mike, to be honest you're not exactly a fountain of fun yourself, buddy.

[steven100]

https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSrKJ5AwS/

 

 

[steven100]

6 minutes ago, Mavideol said:

not one deal has been made, NOT one

Trump Caught Red-Handed Lying in Crazy ’200 Deals’ Interview

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-caught-red-handed-lying-163719509.html

of course no deals have been done .... he's full of crap   ...     I think everyone knows now how much BS he talks. 

[BLMFem]

43 minutes ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

Just wanted to wipe away that bs left to misinform other irrational haters in which is a vicious cycle of getting triggered by lies and them making up more lies due to hatred caused by believing the initial lies.

You OK, Sunny? PM me if you need to talk.

[Mavideol]

2 hours ago, connda said:

I can't wait for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) to be shoehorned into the US presidency by money and manipulation.  That will be 4 years of The Laugh In reality TV.  Hell, she's got my vote.  I'm more than happy to help the US down its self-inflicted Highway To Hell In A Hand-Basket.

not her, she doesn't have the stamina nor the voice to command, too much like Harris, politicians need to learn speech, Trump's included, he doesn't have it neither but he's good at BS even when contradicting himself 2 or 3 x on the same sentence, the guy from California, Gavin, he's a winner and the GOP has no chance against him, but not AOC or Harris, I do think the USA is not ready to have a woman as the POTUS, not yet

[JAG]

4 hours ago, Cameroni said:

 

Global trade will be remodelled in the US favour. Many nations have already sent delegations to negotiate with the US and offered substantial concessions.

 

I suspect ultimately a Mar a Lago acord that will allow the Dollar to be devalued but will still retain it as the reserve currency will happen. That's what the paper by Bessent and his colleague outlines.

If you attempt to remodel global trade in the US favour, whilst devaluing the Dollar, would that not dramatically remove its appeal as the Global reserve currency?

 

Given the amount of global debt held by other countries, wouldn't devaluation, which reduces the value of that debt and reduces the value of the interest payments it provided mean extending or increasing that debt prohibitively expensive.

 

I can't see any "Mar a Lago accord" smoothing over any of that!

[steven100]

8 minutes ago, Screaming said:

but hoped that Thailand would meet with U.S. officials to negotiate a fair trade agreement

   fair trade agreement with honest Thailand ...    you crack me up    !!     

[candide]

2 hours ago, Cameroni said:

https://ig.ft.com/china-mexico-tariffs/

It's under pay wall...

I found another one about Mexico. It shows it's peanuts.

https://ig.ft.com/china-mexico-tariffs/

[BLMFem]

45 minutes ago, Cameroni said:

 

Don't believe all the lies Kamala and the NYT tell you.

 

"The Times was not specific about how much Trump would have received from his father by the time he entered the real estate business with the family company, but it appears to be somewhere in the $1m to $2m range once adjusted for inflation. That is a lot — much more than Harris’s proposal of $50,000 for new startup businesses — but it is far below the $413m Harris cited.

 

Our ruling

 

Harris said Trump “started out with $400 million on a silver platter and then filed for bankruptcy six times”.

There is no question that the former president had a strong financial wind behind him when he started out, and he always had a reasonable expectation of inheriting a share of his father’s business. But he did not begin his business career with $400m available to him.

 

A comprehensive New York Times review of the Trump family finances in 2018 found that Donald Trump received $413m from Fred Trump or his estate over the course of his lifetime. However, all but perhaps $1m or $2m of that amount reached the son after he had already begun working for the family business."

 

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/22/fact-check-did-kamala-harris-exaggerate-scale-of-trumps-pre-career-inheritance

So he got 1-2 million dollars before even starting in the family business, and when he did he got a total of 413 million, Thanks for confirming that.

And to repeat; if this money had been invested in the stock market and left there it would have made more money that what Trump managed through all his scheming.

And a heck of a lot of small contractors would have been better off/still in business.

[metisdead]

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[mikebike]

51 minutes ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

You are now. Glad to keep you informed. Now wait a few hours and there will be more tantrums and false claims Trump went bankrupt repeated...and on and on it goes

No. For decades. You got zip.

[candide]

32 minutes ago, Mavideol said:

get your facts straight as the lady said nothing has been done

 

Trump Caught Red-Handed Lying in Crazy ’200 Deals’ Interview

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-caught-red-handed-lying-163719509.html

 

He's so ridiculous....

 

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. (More B.S. follows...)

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