Congratulations to the President. Trump's tariffs are winning...

[Mac1958]

This was Trump's mistake on day 3 of his first term and that was the good term...

Think of how many mistakes he has made since...

I don't know who has convinced him that the HA HA HA **** YOU TOUGH SHIT LOL approach to foreign policy and trade is the smart one.

On the other hand, it's the only approach in which he has experience and aptitude.

This may have worked in NY City commercial real estate, but it doesn't work in intelligent geopolitics.

 

[CowboyTed]

Canada can trade who we want to trade with, this has not been due to Trump, we are being fleeced in trade with the E.U and China. The issue we have had for decades has been protectionism. Canadian consumers are the most indebted on earth by far, only nation on earth where personal debt of citizens is over 100% of GDP, and food is excessively expensive. That has to do with the lack of competition here as Canadian legacy companies have been protected by multiple governments at different levels. Ontario is leading our massive cost of living increase and Ontarios collapse is almost certain. Did you know that a year after saying that trade would be free between provinces, we STILL do not have free trade amongst provinces. Think about that...we do NOT have free trade between provinces in our own country...

Canada Debt to GDP is 15% better than US... I could realm off other countries that are more indebted to but Canda has much more resources (i.e. assets) than them...

Cost of Living increase was started by Trump... I have explained this numerous times and MAGA have gone to the corner and asked the bad man to go away...

As a side note, Trump didn't't support the supply chain during COVID, think he was more interested in those press conferences...

But mainly Trump cut the Oil supply by 12% globally as the world was coming out of COVID... This caused global inflation (as confirmed by World Bank)... nHE did it to look after Big Oil, actually they met him to ask for it.

"The World Bank identifies oil price shocks and global demand shocks as the primary drivers of global inflation between mid-2020 and mid-2022, responsible for about 65% of the total inflation variation"

What Explains Global Inflation

This paper examines the drivers of fluctuations in global inflation, defined as a common factor across monthly headline consumer price index (CPI) inflation in G7 countries, over the past half-century.

www.worldbank.org

As to being fleeced... You are having a laugh..

 

[Correll]

I don't know who has convinced him that the HA HA HA **** YOU TOUGH SHIT LOL approach to foreign policy and trade is the smart one.

On the other hand, it's the only approach in which he has experience and aptitude.

This may have worked in NY City commercial real estate, but it doesn't work in intelligent geopolitics.

LOL. Intelligent geopolitics? HAHAHAHAHA.

Yeah, scoring cheap domestic points by insulting the most powerful man in the world, to you that was these people being smart.

 

[shockedcanadian]

Man you guys have it good. Canada is basically in a recession with record homelessness. Some of us are so desperate to leave but the covert police state will not allow it. We are basically living in East Berlin but the apparatuses operate covertly to avoid controversy with those nations who have many human right agencies. Marco Rubio was speaking to Europe, but he was also speaking to Canada. They know what is going on here even if the average citizen.does not, even the average FBI agent probably is not aware of the police state enforced by Ontario and federal police here.

 

[shockedcanadian]

Canada Debt to GDP is 15% better than US... I could realm off other countries that are more indebted to but Canda has much more resources (i.e. assets) than them...

Cost of Living increase was started by Trump... I have explained this numerous times and MAGA have gone to the corner and asked the bad man to go away...

As a side note, Trump didn't't support the supply chain during COVID, think he was more interested in those press conferences...

But mainly Trump cut the Oil supply by 12% globally as the world was coming out of COVID... This caused global inflation (as confirmed by World Bank)... nHE did it to look after Big Oil, actually they met him to ask for it.

"The World Bank identifies oil price shocks and global demand shocks as the primary drivers of global inflation between mid-2020 and mid-2022, responsible for about 65% of the total inflation variation"

What Explains Global Inflation

This paper examines the drivers of fluctuations in global inflation, defined as a common factor across monthly headline consumer price index (CPI) inflation in G7 countries, over the past half-century.

www.worldbank.org

As to being fleeced... You are having a laugh..

The E.U had a $28B trade surplus with us last year. Even though they have 10x our population they still imported far less than they exported to us.

The differences in debt is due to the U.S government carrying the debt NOT individual.citizens personal debt. Canadian personal debt is 103% of GDP, U.S is over 80% and U.S over 70%. As with all centralized systems, we are being decimated by the government passing the debt onto citizens, no worse place than Ontario. The RCMP and their surrogates laugh at how naive you are.

In essence, our government across decades sold us out to prop up a few corporations and China. Simple as that:

 

[gipper]

We are big exporters of windshield wipers? Huh, I learn something new each day.

Dumb Don might go down in history as America’s greatest president for inadvertently destroying the evil empire.

 

[CowboyTed]

I don't know who has convinced him that the HA HA HA **** YOU TOUGH SHIT LOL approach to foreign policy and trade is the smart one.

On the other hand, it's the only approach in which he has experience and aptitude.

This may have worked in NY City commercial real estate, but it doesn't work in intelligent geopolitics.

I don't think MAGA get it... They may **** things up in the short term for your trading partners but they a killing yourself in long to medium term...

I get what you are saying but this did happen to Trump in Business... Trump doesn't understand integrity in business. He is bitter that others who are more trustworthy get better deals, better lines of credit, better rates...
Trump never understood that. He never knew that his contractors were generally the desperate and the crap... Because anyone with a reputation would work with someone else more trustworthy.
You get a feeling that he has a bitterness against the business community in New York because they considered him bad business. He was always considered a scammer...

The thing is other big nations are much more stable politically... Most of these countries don't change much politically with changes in Government, this is mainly due to their preference voting and multi seat districts... Instead of a energise the base elections they have much more rush to the middle type elections...
These countries are there for the long haul and look at Trump as a temporary brain fart. His policies make US considerably weaker and we are more interested how US voters react.
Has the US News Media machine completely misinformed their electorate to the point that will not vote in their own interests?
This makes US in a very dangerous place, they can't see reality...
Tariffs are clearly bad, anyone with Econ 101 could have told you that, but US has a large contingent who can't see reality through the fog of their media bubble. The Right Wing is the one with the biggest problem here...

 

[cnm]

Canada has always been a big global trader,

It's had one customer, give or take.

But you believe what ever makes you happy.

 

[cnm]

IF/WHEN this fails, will you admit it, or ignore it and refuse to learn from it?

What is 'this' and what is the metric for failure?

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Canada is repeating the massive mistake America did.
Making deals with the devil. Too stupid to care that this will backfire enormously, just like it did for the U.S.
Good luck standing in unemployment lines Canadians

 

[berg80]

Canada can trade who we want to trade with, this has not been due to Trump, we are being fleeced in trade with the E.U and China.

Let's pretend that is true.........even though it isn't. Since US consumers are paying about 90% of the tariffs how is Dotard fixing the imaginary problem?

The Trump Administration’s trade warfare with China began in earnest last March 22nd (following steel and aluminum tariffs that primarily hit other countries). U.S. and Chinese tariffs on each other’s goods then escalated repeatedly through September 18 with threats of much more the same by March 1 of this year.

The effect so far has been quite different from what President Trump first promised and still keeps pretending. In fact, U.S. goods exports to China (excluding services) fell by 26.3% from March through October, while U.S. imports from China rose by 36.5%.

https://www.cato.org/blog/trade-war-china-slashed-us-exports-263-us-imports-rose-385?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=85808169&gbraid=0AAAAADusmueNUmPy94Zhh4efNXdM4Vu9F&gclid=Cj0KCQiA49XMBhDRARIsAOOKJHZm4vFb4lnNgHgCtRZiORGlvFy_yNO-H3NZYbJoQP-nQLZlTBGNsHwaAsLXEALw_wcB

 

[berg80]

U.S. President Donald Trump has welcomed Japan’s pledge to invest nearly $36 billion in oil, gas and critical mineral projects in Texas, Ohio and Georgia.

The commitment represents the first tranche of investments by Japan following a landmark trade deal between the two countries, one in which Tokyo pledged to invest $550 billion in American-based projects and Trump cut tariffs on most Japanese imports to 15%.

“Our MASSIVE Trade Deal with Japan has just launched!” Trump said Tuesday in a social media post.

“The scale of these projects are so large, and could not be done without one very special word, TARIFFS,” he added.

Trump lauds Japan’s pledge to invest $36 billion in U.S. oil, gas and critical mineral projects

The commitment represents the first tranche of investments by Japan following a landmark trade deal between the two countries.

www.cnbc.com

Actually, the very special word isn't tariffs, it's using tariffs as extortion.

 

[shockedcanadian]

U.S. President Donald Trump has welcomed Japan’s pledge to invest nearly $36 billion in oil, gas and critical mineral projects in Texas, Ohio and Georgia.

The commitment represents the first tranche of investments by Japan following a landmark trade deal between the two countries, one in which Tokyo pledged to invest $550 billion in American-based projects and Trump cut tariffs on most Japanese imports to 15%.

“Our MASSIVE Trade Deal with Japan has just launched!” Trump said Tuesday in a social media post.

“The scale of these projects are so large, and could not be done without one very special word, TARIFFS,” he added.

Trump lauds Japan’s pledge to invest $36 billion in U.S. oil, gas and critical mineral projects

The commitment represents the first tranche of investments by Japan following a landmark trade deal between the two countries.

www.cnbc.com

Actually, the very special word isn't tariffs, it's using tariffs as extortion.

No, it is reciprocal. Americans are too uninformed about the rest of the world. Many nations use tariffs AND especially non-tariff barriers.

 

[Mac1958]

I don't think MAGA get it... They may **** things up in the short term for your trading partners but they a killing yourself in long to medium term...

They believe that the way Trump does things is the ONLY way they can be done. In EVERYTHING.

Do we always want to optimize our trade agreements? Of course, obviously. But is the ONLY WAY TO DO IT by insulting, threatening, punishing, extorting, mocking and intimidating our trade partners, creating a chaos and instability for them that they can't tolerate?

A person who actually believes that is -- and this is not a word I normally like to use -- stupid.

I get what you are saying but this did happen to Trump in Business... Trump doesn't understand integrity in business. He is bitter that others who are more trustworthy get better deals, better lines of credit, better rates...
Trump never understood that. He never knew that his contractors were generally the desperate and the crap... Because anyone with a reputation would work with someone else more trustworthy.
You get a feeling that he has a bitterness against the business community in New York because they considered him bad business. He was always considered a scammer...

Well, it's who he is at his core. He's a predator, like a jungle animal, and he doesn't care who he hurts or what the long term effects of his actions are. And that's because he knows he'll never take responsibility for any of it.

He is a true, literal malignant narcissist. He's profoundly damaged, but charismatic and mercurial, like most cult leaders.

 

[Hafar1014]

Americas GDP 4.3% increasing every quarter. The world needs to export to us. We dont need them. Manufacturing is leaving Europe and coming here because green energy is destroying profits and cant meet demand. Tariffs work America is thriving

 

[cnm]

U.S. President Donald Trump has welcomed Japan’s pledge to invest nearly $36 billion in oil, gas and critical mineral projects in Texas, Ohio and Georgia.

Still just a pledge from what I can gather. Chump's had a headline, that's the point for him.

 

[cnm]

Do we always want to optimize our trade agreements? Of course, obviously. But is the ONLY WAY TO DO IT by insulting, threatening, punishing, extorting, mocking and intimidating our trade partners, creating a chaos and instability for them that they can't afford?

The point is that America can't afford it. The world can make adjustments.

 

[Mac1958]

The point is that America can't afford it. The world can make adjustments.

Yeah, and that will happen in time. They'll have to deal with us in some areas for now, but the trust is broken.

Trade agreements require stability, respect, leadership and trust. That's all gone. They're done with us.

 

[Hafar1014]

I don't think MAGA get it... They may **** things up in the short term for your trading partners but they a killing yourself in long to medium term...

I get what you are saying but this did happen to Trump in Business... Trump doesn't understand integrity in business. He is bitter that others who are more trustworthy get better deals, better lines of credit, better rates...
Trump never understood that. He never knew that his contractors were generally the desperate and the crap... Because anyone with a reputation would work with someone else more trustworthy.
You get a feeling that he has a bitterness against the business community in New York because they considered him bad business. He was always considered a scammer...

The thing is other big nations are much more stable politically... Most of these countries don't change much politically with changes in Government, this is mainly due to their preference voting and multi seat districts... Instead of a energise the base elections they have much more rush to the middle type elections...
These countries are there for the long haul and look at Trump as a temporary brain fart. His policies make US considerably weaker and we are more interested how US voters react.
Has the US News Media machine completely misinformed their electorate to the point that will not vote in their own interests?
This makes US in a very dangerous place, they can't see reality...
Tariffs are clearly bad, anyone with Econ 101 could have told you that, but US has a large contingent who can't see reality through the fog of their media bubble. The Right Wing is the one with the biggest problem here...

So why is everything better since Trump took over

 

[Hafar1014]

Yeah, and that will happen in time. They'll have to deal with us in some areas for now, but the trust is broken.

Trade agreements require stability, respect and trust. That's all gone. They're done with us.

No they dont they require leverage which we have