Trump crying about rigged elections, but remember when he was literally recorded trying to rig an election?
How the fuck is this traitor the president of the USA? What the fuck is wrong with you people?
The United States is the richest country in the history of the world.
Of course we have a trade deficit—we will always buy more from other countries than we sell to them.
That's what happens when you’re wealthy: you consume more.
The only way to “fix” this would be to make Americans poorer.
Maybe that’s been the plan all along.
@realDonaldTrump What the hell are you talking about?
To "president" & his "administration": you are an unAmerican, bunch of avarice-riddled, power-hungry, xenophobic, racist, sexist, incompetent & petty, cruel thugs who don't give a crap about the people or their concerns.
A bunch of fools.
@realDonaldTrump To the "president" and his "administration": you are unbelievably unAmerican. A bunch of avarice-riddled, power-hungry, xenophobic, racist, sexist, ignorant, incompetent and petty, cruel thugs. You don't give a crap about the people and their concerns. A bunch of fools.
@realDonaldTrump To the "president" and his "administration": you are unbelievably unAmerican. A bunch of avarice-riddled, power-hungry, xenophobic, racist, sexist, ignorant, incompetent and petty, cruel thugs. You don't give a crap about the people and their concerns. A bunch of fools.
This is truly amazing. The Deputy White House Press Secretary is claiming that I'm wrong, and that the "tariff rates" on Trump's chart were calculated by "literally" measuring every country's tariffs and non-tariff trade barriers.
To prove it, he screenshots the formula the USTR says was used to calculate the reciprocal tariffs we imposed on other countries. And when you back out the Greek symbols, what is that formula? Trade deficit/imports - exactly what I said it was.
I don't know if the Deputy Press Secretary was misinformed, or is just being misleading. Either way, the Trump administration did not "literally calculate tariff and non tariff barriers" to determine the tariff rates it's imposing on other countries. As I said, it divided our trade deficit with a country by our imports with that country, and then multiplied by 0.5 (because Trump was being "lenient").
Oh, and if our trade deficit/imports with a country is less than 10%, or we have a trade surplus with a country, Trump slapped a flat 10% tariff on that country.
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