If we could get someone Trump listens to saying that the United States is falling behind Norway in dilithium mining, and state it confidently, he would 100% be demanding Norway's dilithium operations the next day.
We should find a way to do this.
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. . .someone Trump listens to. . .
Maybe fox news?
You could get on OAN and likely have the same exposure
What's that, Lassie?
All he's done is ruin everything and make the world worse for everybody?
He's crashing the US economy?
He's doing hundreds of years worth of damage to the country?
Millions of innocent people's lives are ruined?
Millions of innocent people outside of the country will probably needlessly die because of him?
What's that, Lassie?
Huh? It almost sounds French.
Oh, guillotine.
GOOD DOG!
Trump is full of shit. As usual.
He is a pile of shit in a trench-coat
Trump: we’ve made over 200 trade deals
Everyone: with who?
Trump: she goes to another school
It's funny he is so stupid he can't even tell a plausible lie! Because he has to exaggerate beyond what's even possible.
https://www.worldometers.info/geography/how-many-countries-are-there-in-the-world/
Countries in the world: 195
So surprise surprise the actual number is zero. 🤣🤣🤣
Of course you're not wrong that he's lying out his ass, but fwiw multiple trade deals can occur between two nations, over different types of products or industries or at different times.
Probably just one trade deal for each penguin
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"He never said they were Earthly nations. He's making deals with nations across the galactic empire!" - One of Trump's 20 billion supporters.
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“We don’t have to sign deals. They have to sign deals with us. They want a piece of our market, we don’t want a piece of their market. We don’t care about their market. They want a piece of our market,” Trump rambled.
"Trump rambled" is the best attribution for trump quotes.
"Blithered" might be slightly more correct.
'Groaned' gets my vote.
'We don't care about their market' is such a self indictment of his understanding of global trade.
also like… literally the reason for tariffs: because people want international goods and nobody wants yours
Poor soybean farmers hearing that when maybe 40% of their crop ends up in Chyyy-nah
Your base mighttt care about their market lil bro
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If we don't care about their market, why are we trying to balance trade?
Because his economic thinking is less advanced than David Ricardo's, and Ricardo died 200 years ago. Ricardo showed the imbecility of attempting to have a pairwise balance of trade for every trading partner, in simple terms, though probably not simple enough for Trump to understand, even if he attempted to learn.
As an economist recently observed, my balance of trade with my barber is negative: so what?
Because Trump doesn't understand one inch of the global economy.
This is what happens when you mainline American Exceptionalism for 80 years - It rots your brain.
Emperor has no clothes. Nazis don’t care.
Dday part 2 coming soon.
If there’s one emperor you absolutely want to wear clothes, it’s trump.
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How many MAGA folks will ever see this? Probably very few. And most of those few will dismiss it without a second thought.
He wanted to nuke a hurricane and americans still voted for him.
Hey now, he eventually back pedaled and successfully redirected the hurricane by using just a sharpie.
I wish he did so people would realize how much of an idiot he is. But then again, this is Maga.
Amazed he didn't try and nuke COVID-19.
I still can't fully wrap my head around just how stupid he is. It surprises me, every time.
That, and the sheer stupidity of the morons who voted for him.
Have you considered eating enough raw bushmeat that you get a brain worm?
Well, we all know how incapable Trump is regarding business and economy. Basically any halfway professional diplomat or trade official will basically run him into the next wall, head first.
China is only the first of many countries where he will learn that he is playing with adults for the first time. These are not random bootlicking apprentices he can fire at a whim.
"We don’t have to sign deals!” Trump said.
Why even bother signing a deal that everyone knows you're going to break
Last month, Trump claimed to have already struck 200 trade agreements with foreign countries, a remark so outlandish it sent members of his administration scrambling to make it make sense. (There are also only 195 countries in the world.)
The vile foreigner swine must have pulled out of all of them over the past month.
I would say this guy this is dumber than a bag of hammers but that would be an insult to the bag of hammers.
In the hands of Trump, a hammer is corrupted beyond redemption.
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I guess leaders are too busy kissing his ass?
If you have money in your 401k pull it now.
Shits gonna pop
You can direct your investments in your 401k to international funds much more easily
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Holding all the cards but his casinos are gone.
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