Donald Trump has continually insisted that deals over his tariffs are coming.

Donald Trump claimed Tuesday that the U.S. doesn’t “have to sign” any trade deals, inadvertently admitting that his administration hasn’t made any progress during the 90-day pause on his disastrous tariffs.

During a tense meeting to discuss tariffs with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, the president attempted to move the goal posts on actually completing any agreements with foreign countries.

“Everyone says, ‘When, when, when, are you going to sign deals?’ We don’t have to sign deals!” Trump said.

    • rabber@lemmy.ca
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      4 months ago

      Doesn’t matter the currency will be worthless too

      Pull 401k and buy a tangible object

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      4 months ago

      You can direct your investments in your 401k to international funds much more easily

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      This is stupid. Selling your investments at a low price for a currency that’s quickly devaluing is two boneheaded moves in one.

      Move as many of your investments as possible outside of the US.

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      4 months ago

      Unfortunately, the global economic system is tightly integrated. I think this will provide only a minor hedging effect.

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          The US consumers base is bigger than the next like six or seven countries combined, China included. If a country exports literally anything, you can bet the US is one of their larger trade partners, if not the largest. We just love buying shit here and had the money to do it. So I’m just saying, this shit is gonna hurt everybody. If you build something, odds are someone in America will buy it. The US imported $3.2T worth of goods in 2022, and if that shit dries up, all those places need to find someone else to sell that shit to.

          I say this thinking this is all dumb, and if the issue was China, as it’s purported to be, and which is something I can totally get on board with, why not just go to trade war with China? China is heavily reliant on American consumerism. The US sent 150b in goods to China, but bought 536b back. With no other of America’s trade partners is the gulf so big. Mexico and Canada combined, the next largest two, were less.

          I dunno, I’m just an idiot. I think things are much more complicated than folks on here and Reddit make them out to be. And that’s excluding the plethora of other obvious negatives from this administration. I think we all need to buckle up, and it doesn’t matter where you’re from.

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    Who is going to sign the first deal with a President who’s famous for backing down? I

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      He’s the best at backing down. The biggest and most beautiful backdowns. When he backs down everyone claps.

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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.

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    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!

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    He also brought in 9, maybe even 10 trillion dollars to the US! No other president has even brought in 1 trillion! Did you know that?

    I really wish the camera didn’t keep focusing on Trump, I wanted to see Carney’s reactions throughout.

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    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.

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    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.

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    most of the countries right now are already working around the tariffs, once its done , if trump decides to rescind all the tariffs, most of it wont come back every, or at leas it will be so minimal that it wont affect anything.

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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.

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    I’m really hoping that after enough people yell at him about how much money they are losing, he will just drop the tariffs and wonder off to the next disaster.

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      We really need to start chanting ‘FAGG-OT, FAGG-OT’ whenever he’s in public.

      He is a one, in the truest sense of the word. He’s an elderly burden who is devoid of usefulness

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        If you are aiming for offensive, “Dotard” is a (far) better word and it’s not actually as derogatory as it sounds. In fact, it’s perfectly cromulent and accurate.

        1. an old person, especially one who has become physically weak or whose mental faculties have declined.