Trumpology: U.S. trade deficit falls 15% and the LefTarded stay silent...Why?

[edthecynic]

Goods exports to China dropped 22.3 percent to $7.1 billion, lowest since September 2010; Chinese imports dropped 9.6 percent to $41.6 billion.

Biggest increase in exports I bet is in refined petroleum products.

That's right, gotta keep supplies in the US low through increased exports so prices can be jacked up domestically.

 

[Slade3200]

Trumpology: U.S. trade deficit falls 15% and the LefTarded stay silent...Why?

Because they're scum?

Don’t believe every headline you see on USMB. Most are written by idiots who do no research. CNN reported the same story
https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/03/27/politics/trade-deficit-china/index.html?r=https://www.google.com/

 

[Brain357]

One month means very little. It bounced around last year too, but the end result?

U.S. Posts Record Annual Trade Deficit

 

[Dragonlady]

This is so weird...I’m sure some of the most vocal on this issue have hoped this doesn’t surface...Sorry Lefties.
US trade gap falls 15 percent to $51.1 billion in January

FOX News is spinning you. The trade deficit is not getting better.

Despite Trump's Promises, The Trade Deficit Is Only Getting Wider

https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.was...ncreased-exactly-where-trump-said-it-wouldnt/

 

[Claudette]

This is so weird...I’m sure some of the most vocal on this issue have hoped this doesn’t surface...Sorry Lefties.
US trade gap falls 15 percent to $51.1 billion in January

Anyone with a working brain cell knows the Tariff war is a long game. Not a short one.

Of course none of the lefty loons have working brain cells.

 

[whitehall]

China has been taking advantage of unfair trade with the U.S. for decades but no president has had the balls to tackle the problem except President Trump. Democrats fight him every step of the way and when he hits a snag the crazy angry left celebrates.

 

[expat_panama]

...The trade deficit is not getting better...

of course it is, the problem here is everyone likes to shoot the mouth off but nobody looks at the numbers we're talking about:

Sure, we got a blip in Jan. that didn't even get back up to the level we had in Dec., but the over all trend is that the U.S. capital/financial surplus continues to SOAR!

 

[Meathead]

One month following a record setting year and even with this drop the trade deficit is still higher than any point prior to Trump taking office .

You Trump worshipers are so desperate for something to cling to


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Yeah, we were so hoping he was colluding with Russia - alas!

 

[Dragonlady]

China has been taking advantage of unfair trade with the U.S. for decades but no president has had the balls to tackle the problem except President Trump. Democrats fight him every step of the way and when he hits a snag the crazy angry left celebrates.

Here's a clue asshole.

The Trans Pacific Partnership, which Trumped pulled out of without reading, had everything in it in regards to trade with China that Trump wants, including patent protections. Somebody on Trump's team read the deal, and Trump tried to get back into it but it was too late. The member countries were in no mood to re-negotiate a deal they spent years setting up in the first place, and told Trump they had moved to the legislative phase of implementation.

So Trump has now spent how much money to try to get back to the point that had already been achieved with the TPP?

Not to mention, that if you want to renegotiate a deal with your trading partners, it's really ******* stupid to start the process by declaring a trade war and imposing tariffs. DUMBER THAN WALKING OUT OF THE FIRST MEETING WITH NANCY PELOSI.

You don't impose tariffs as your opening gambit. Tariffs are ONLY imposed when all else fails.

 

[Billy_Bob]

You don't impose tariffs as your opening gambit. Tariffs are ONLY imposed when all else fails.

You do when Obama the Idiot screws the US so bad it is the only play left..

 

[Dragonlady]

You don't impose tariffs as your opening gambit. Tariffs are ONLY imposed when all else fails.

You do when Obama the Idiot screws the US so bad it is the only play left..

Bullshit.
Trump pulled one of his classic "bully" moves, expecting the Chinese to collapse. Remember "Trade wars are easy to win!". Trump had lots of options and tariffs should have been a last resort. Trade deals take years to negotiate. The mid-western farmers can't go years without markets for their crops, during which time, tariffs which have been imposed remain in place.

Trump pulled out of TPP. He could have tried to engage the Chinese on trade, but he didn't. He didn't even invite them to the table. What kind of idiot does that?

Now these farms who were forced to store their crops when their orders all fell through, have lost those stored crops in the flooding. And the trade war, which was supposed to be easy to win, is going into its second year with no end in sight. Farmers have now lost their markets and their crops. Some families are already selling out. Farming isn't a high paying job to being with. Not only that but Trumps' tariffs cost taxpayers $12 billion to bail out American farmers for their losses last year when China retalliated by cancelling all their soybean orders. Farmers don't want government charity. They spent 40 years developing these markets. Trump destroyed them with the stroke of a pen.

 

[deanrd]

You don't impose tariffs as your opening gambit. Tariffs are ONLY imposed when all else fails.

You do when Obama the Idiot screws the US so bad it is the only play left..

I know, right?
Let's look at some of the horrible things Obama did:

From less than 700 to 2300????

Damn him!

And look at what Obama did to the unemployment numbers handed to him by Bush and the GOP:

Obama should be ashamed of himself. How could he do such a thing?

Thank God Trump was able to triple the borrowing from Obama's last year and get that up to where it's supposed to be.

And Trump has done an amazing job of redistributing the wealth from that fat middle class to needy billionaires where it belongs.

Yea, Obama really messed up. Thank God we have Trump to "fix" things.

And oh my God how Trump as "fixed" things.

 

[BrokeLoser]

You don't impose tariffs as your opening gambit. Tariffs are ONLY imposed when all else fails.

You do when Obama the Idiot screws the US so bad it is the only play left..

I know, right?
Let's look at some of the horrible things Obama did:

From less than 700 to 2300????

Damn him!

And look at what Obama did to the unemployment numbers handed to him by Bush and the GOP:

Obama should be ashamed of himself. How could he do such a thing?

Thank God Trump was able to triple the borrowing from Obama's last year and get that up to where it's supposed to be.

And Trump has done an amazing job of redistributing the wealth from that fat middle class to needy billionaires where it belongs.

Yea, Obama really messed up. Thank God we have Trump to "fix" things.

And oh my God how Trump as "fixed" things.

The Kenyan Chimp didn't do shit....our $10 trillion did it all...my teen daughter would have had the same spread sheet with $10T and coming out of a recession.

 

[expat_panama]

China has been taking advantage of unfair trade with the U.S. for decades but no president has had the balls to tackle the problem except President Trump. Democrats fight him every step of the way and when he hits a snag the crazy angry left celebrates.

The Trans Pacific Partnership, which Trumped pulled out of without reading, had everything in it in regards to trade with China that Trump wants, including patent protections. Somebody on Trump's team read the deal, and Trump tried to get back into it but it was too late...
...Tariffs are ONLY imposed when all else fails.

This food fight y'all got going on looks like a lot of fun but we might want to check to see if we're all talking about the same thing. Let's get together on the facts:

• TPP was never signed into law by anyone. It was just a series of negotiations opened by proposing lower tariffs and it morphed into a swelling pile of exemptions.
• Not only did China have nothing to do w/ TPP talks, but they constantly tried to prevent it. If anything shutting down the TTP talks was an olive branch to China.
• This so called "trade war" has had some tariffs go up w/ others falling, the result being all time highs in U.S./China imports and exports.