These American Republicans are so ******* stupid. They trust Trump and from the way it looks to me, he has alienated the United States. Our allies are looking for new trading partners and our enemies are laughing at us. Especially after that pathetic parade for Trump's birthday and then Pete and his speech to the Generals. Total ******* embarrassment.
You don't give a peace prize to a person who changes the Department of Defense back to the Department of War.
And Republicans are so happy that Trump temporarily postponed the war in Gaza but they don't worry about escillating tensions with China.
In his Truth Social post, Trump wrote China had been sending letters to countries throughout the world informing them of plans to restrict exports “of each and every element of production having to do with Rare Earths, and virtually anything else they can think of, even if it’s not manufactured in China.”
“Nobody has ever seen anything like this but, essentially, it would ‘clog’ the Markets, and make life difficult for virtually every Country in the World, especially for China. We have been contacted by other Countries who are extremely angry at this great Trade hostility, which came out of nowhere,” Trump wrote.
No it didn't come out of nowhere Don. They are doing this to you ya dumb mother ******! It's retaliation you stupid son of a *****.
Hey Republicans, this is called unintended consequences. And for the record we are not rooting against Trump we are just telling you we told you so. He's a stupid son of a ***** and you elected him TWICE! You ******* idiots! LOL
China should not be allowed to exert “monopoly” power over the exports of rare earth magnets, which are used in a number of high-tech, green energy and medical goods, Trump continued.
Excuse me? They should not be allowed? What should we do about it Donald? Go to war?
But if Beijing follows that course, “the U.S. has Monopoly positions also, much stronger and more far reaching than China’s,” he added.
Trump’s Truth Social post could mark the decisive end to a fragile trade truce that the U.S. and China have sustained since May as their negotiators have pursued a deal aimed at addressing the United States’ massive trade imbalance with China and other longtime irritants.
It also suggests that Beijing’s tightening grip on its critical mineral supply has derailed the White House strategy of reducing trade frictions in the run-up to the long-anticipated meeting between Trump and Xi later this month.
“This week’s export-control expansion looks like a miscalculation — what Beijing sees as leverage, Washington views as betrayal,” said Craig Singleton, senior China fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. “Trump’s statement shows that even a deal-driven White House has limits, and China may have just crossed them.”
“But the risk is clear,” Singleton continued. “Mutually assured disruption is no longer a metaphor. Both sides are reaching for their economic weapons at the same time, and neither seems willing to back down.”
Trump you started this!!!
Earlier this year, Trump hiked his reciprocal tariff on China up to 125 percent, which Beijing matched in a series of tit-for-tat moves resulting in a virtual embargo on each other’s goods. That led to a meeting in May where the two sides agreed to scale back their tariffs for 90 days while talks continued.
The two sides agreed in August to extend the reduced tariff rates for another 90 days, raising the stakes for the upcoming Xi-Trump meeting that has been expected to take place just before the annual APEC leaders meeting on Oct. 31-Nov. 1.
Trump’s trade moves have already significantly reduced trade with China, which was the United States’ third largest trading partner in 2024.
U.S. imports from the Asian heavyweight totaled $194 billion in the first seven months of 2025, compared to $239 billion in the same period last year. U.S. exports to China in January through July totaled $65 billion, compared to $82 billion in the same seven months in 2024.
U.S. exports of agricultural products, particularly soybeans, to China have been hit particularly hard, prompting the Trump administration to consider ways to provide billions of dollars of subsidy payments to farmers.
And now we have to give our farmers $15 billion dollars to bail them out. Another unintended consequence.