⚠️IMPORTANT⚠️ Tom Barrack struts into Beirut like a 19th-century colonial commissioner, calls Lebanese journalists ‘animalistic,’ lectures us on ‘civilisation,’ & blames it all on our ‘region.’ That’s not just arrogance, it’s racism. You don’t run this country, & you don’t get to insult its people @USAMBTurkiye.
Your contempt exposes you, not us.
Shame on you, & on those in the room who stayed silent instead of challenging your contempt.
Speculative: Thinking about the end game on tariffs.
Trump is going to retreat whenever the other side, be it a country (China) or a firm (Apple), turns out to have enough economic or political leverage.
If the other side does not have leverage however, he will not. Thus, small players, countries or firms (think Vietnam, small US businesses…) will likely suffer.
The result will not be a return to the past, but a patchwork of badly thought-out, inefficient, and cruel tariffs.
Elon Musk after finding out he can shave $4T instead of the $2T he initially estimated due to the massive fraud that was being committed by the government