Washington Post -- White House Eased China Tariffs After Warnings Of Harm To "Trump’s People"

[EvilCat Breath]

Lol! The washington post. lower case intended.

In other words,poppycock.

 

[Mac-7]

Bullshit

ALL he cares about are “his people”

Wrong

If libs were not consumed by TDS they would know better

 

[Lesh]

Wrong

If libs were not consumed by TDS they would know better

You’re right. He cares about himself and then “his people”

 

[Lesh]

In other words,poppycock.

If the WAPO said the sky was blue you’d call it bullshit

 

[Missouri_Mike]

Well....uneducated dirt stupid MAGA fucktards don't read it, obviously.

Nobody with self respect does.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

If the WAPO said the sky was blue you’d call it bullshit

They would never do that.

 

[Dr. Phosphorous]

I am on record wanting trump to keep the 145% tariff

Well....then you support your own financial destruction. And this country's financial destruction.

No businesses are going to invest in this country while Trump is doing this crazy shit. Period.

I don't know why you are offended about being called an idiot...you actually take pride in being an idiot.

You otoh just want to complain either way because you are playing partisanship

The “trump’s people” quote is objectionable because trump is motivated by the best interest of all our workers not just his voters

It's not in the best interest of workers. That's why no labor unions support this tariffs idiocy.

 

[Dr. Phosphorous]

Nobody with self respect does.

People with no self respect actually believe what comes out of Donald Trump's mouth....like you.

 

[Mac-7]

Well....then you support your own financial destruction. And this country's financial destruction.

No businesses are going to invest in this country while Trump is doing this crazy shit. Period.

I don't know why you are offended about being called an idiot...you actually take pride in being an idiot.


It's not in the best interest of workers. That's why no labor unions support this tariffs idiocy.

Its difficult to tell anything to a lib like you who sees the future so clearly

There are so many moving parts that no one can predict

But I dont have a blind hatred of trump to guide me ad you do

 

[Lesh]

Its difficult to tell anything to a lib like you who sees the future so clearly

There are so many moving parts that no one can predict

But I dont have a blind hatred of trump to guide me ad you do

No blind hatred..

In fact the exact opposite

Blind adoration

 

[Mac-7]

Blind adoration

It is sometimes difficult to remain rational during never ending irrational attacks from the left

The defenders become stubborn and unwilling to concede an inch

I made that mistake during the Bush years

And libs did the same thing when obama and biden was president

Its a cycle that I refuse to repeat under trump

Or at least try to resist

But the wild-eyed Trump haters make it very difficult

 

[Dr. Phosphorous]

It is sometimes difficult to remain rational during never ending irrational attacks from the left

The defenders become stubborn and unwilling to concede an inch

I made that mistake during the Bush years

And libs did the same thing when obama and biden was president

Its a cycle that I refuse to repeat under trump

Or at least try to resist

But the wild-eyed Trump haters make it very difficult

Trump backed down on his 145% tariffs on China....because it became obvious even to that imbecile that it's not going to make China back down and the tariffs will have no positive effect.

Trump has no strategy for how his tariffs are actually going to help the country. Zero. He is just a breathtakingly stupid, mentally ill old man.

 

[Mac-7]

Trump backed down on his 145% tariffs on China....

I tend to think he backed off too soon and wish he had held his ground till china agreed to his terms

So if saying so makes you happy be my guest

But its way to early to give trump a final grade

We should know more when the 90 days or up

My guess is china will stall and the talks will go nowhere

Then we’ll see how trump reacts

Whats needed is a sustained national policy to gradually reduce imports from china

Which will be difficult with democrats waiting in the wings to undo any gains trump accomplishes

 

[Dr. Phosphorous]

I tend to think he backed off too soon and wish he had held his ground till china agreed to his terms

So if saying so makes you happy be my guest

But its way to early to give trump a final grade

We should know more when the 90 days or up

My guess is china will stall and the talks will go nowhere

Then we’ll see how trump reacts

Whats needed is a sustained national policy to gradually reduce imports from china

Which will be difficult with democrats waiting in the wings to undo any gains trump accomplishes

It's not too soon.....because Trump has not explained one time how his tariffs are going to magically bring manufacturing back to this country.

Even if by some miracle that Trump is correct, it will take years of economic hardship to make his mentally ill "vision" come true. And both MAGA voters and liberals will be the ones suffering during this disastrous economic experiment.

 

[Mac-7]

It's not too soon.....because Trump has not explained one time how his tariffs are going to magically bring manufacturing back to this country.

Even if by some miracle that Trump is correct, it will take years of economic hardship to make his mentally ill "vision" come true. And both MAGA voters and liberals will be the ones suffering during this disastrous economic experiment.

Tariffs cannot bring back manufacturing all by themselves

But they can reduce our dependance on china and that weakens the CCP

Which was already in deep economic trouble even before trump got reelected

 

[Dr. Phosphorous]

Tariffs cannot bring back manufacturing all by themselves

But they can reduce our dependance on china and that weakens the CCP

No, tariffs won't. In the long run, China doesn't give a flying fuck about their cheap products. China is leaving America in their dust with electric vehicles and other new high tech products.

And the dirt stupid MAGA voter base in this country will never be able to compete with China....while these MAGA gomers are making shirts, shoes, pots, and pans and other cheap ass products in dumb ass Trump's new sweatshop factories.

 

[Mac-7]

No, tariffs won't. In the long run, China doesn't give a flying fuck about their cheap products. China is leaving America in their dust with electric vehicles and other new high tech products.

You are really brainwashed if you think china is beating America in high tech and is doing great economically

Its struggling and desperately needs the income derived from exporting cheap goods to America

 

[Mac-7]

Dr. Phosphorous

BTW: the world is turning away from chinese EVs

The quality is bad and many other countries fear have their own auto companies driven out of business

 

[Dr. Phosphorous]

Dr. Phosphorous

BTW: the world is turning away from chinese EVs

The quality is bad and many other countries fear have their own auto companies driven out of business

It's not just EVs. Trump and imbecile Repugs don't believe in solar energy and green energy in general, when it's obviously going to be the future of this planet.

They are allowing China to become the dominant force in this growing green energy industry, because they are fucking idiots.

 

[berg80]

Trump backed down against China because a lot of MAGA supporters started complaining about the tariffs....and got nothing in return from China.

Trump blinked...because even his most loyal supporters are telling the mentally ill imbecile that his tariffs are fucking insane.

As the excerpt from the article below mentions, the average U.S. tariff rate has risen from 2.5% to 18% under Trump...even after easing the tariffs against China last weekend.

This is the highest tariff rate since the Smoot-Hawley tariffs of the 1930s, which made the Great Depression even worse.

From the Washington Post --

Throughout April, President Donald Trump’s sky-high tariffs on imports from China had rippled through the U.S. and global economies. But the president was reluctant to move too quickly to lower the penalties on Beijing, believing that the United States needed to stomach some short-term economic pain to achieve a major rebalancing in trade and that China had more to lose in the standoff.

By the end of the month, though, a growing number of blue-collar workers whom Trump saw as part of his political base — including longshoremen and truckers — began warning that tariffs and a near-total cessation of trade with China were hurting them. Behind the scenes, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and other aides told Trump that his own voters were in danger if the tariffs did not come down, according to two people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private discussions. That gave them a path to initiating negotiations with the Chinese, which culminated this past weekend in Geneva with a partial deal to reduce tariffs between the world’s two biggest economies. One White House official cautioned, however, that multiple factors contributed to the trade talks in Switzerland.

Trump has substantially changed tariffs on goods from China, Canada and Mexico at least a half-dozen times each. He has reversed himself at least three times on auto tariffs, on steel and aluminum, and on agriculture and energy. Other sectors are left waiting to see how their production lines might be upended. Trump has announced, but not implemented, tariffs on semiconductors, pharmaceuticals and a range of other critical imports.

Previously, the most rapid period of change for U.S. trade policy was from 1806 to 1812, as early American presidents contended with shifting alliances with Britain and France, according to Douglas Irwin, an economist at Dartmouth College who specializes in economic history. But, Irwin said, “that was changing every year. This is changing every day. The sheer amount of activity is unprecedented, overwhelming.”

Even after easing economic hostilities with China, Trump has raised the average U.S. tariff rate from 2.5 percent to 18 percent — the highest level since the Smoot-Hawley tariff rate of the 1930s that most economists think exacerbated the Great Depression, according to the Budget Lab at Yale University. Trump has long maintained that these higher tariffs will provide an incentive for companies to bring operations onshore and will help pay for the GOP tax bill.

But some critics say these policies are unlikely to achieve that result. A high tariff rate could in theory provide an incentive for manufacturers to move production to the U.S., but the administration’s constant reversals of policy gives businesses little confidence that they won’t be undercut later. That undermines the goal of encouraging companies to invest heavily in new U.S. facilities.

“It’s been completely insane,” Michael Strain, an economist at the American Enterprise Institute, a center-right think tank, said of Trump’s tariff policies. “When I step back from the euphoria over easing tariffs with China, what I see is the tariff rate is five times as high as when Trump took office. And we seem to have gotten nothing out of it at all.”

Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action Forum, a center-right think tank, pointed out that the only formal pact so far is more of an outline for a future agreement than a traditional trade deal. It’s hard to imagine that Britain needed to be threatened with major tariffs for its leaders to agree to relatively minor concessions, Holtz-Eakin said.

“All we’ve done is impose tariffs and then un-impose them — we haven’t accomplished anything, honestly,” Holtz-Eakin said. “We’re going to sell some more Boeings to the U.K. That’s the only thing. Did we really need the tariffs on the world to get that done?”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/05/14/trump-tariffs-china-trade/

The tariffs will be seen by the rubes as a glorious victory for the homeland only Dear Leader could achieve no matter their outcome.