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

[struth]

Trump cancelled his own fucked-up tariffs without gaining anything. He ended a disaster of his own making.

No imbecile....Trump did not "win".

what tariffs were cancelled? There is a 30 percent one on China, they dropped their tariffs all teh way down to 10 percent on us....better then it's ever been

 

[yidnar]

They were quoting someone who works in the White House, you idiot.


What a stupid question.

Here is a better question, genius -- Why the fuck did Trump impement a 145% tariff in the first place????

to force your Communist benefactors to the negotiating table ..

 

[yidnar]

Bullshit

ALL he cares about are “his people”

his people are the American people ..hence MAGA !

 

[yidnar]

what tariffs were cancelled? There is a 30 percent one on China, they dropped their tariffs all teh way down to 10 percent on us....better then it's ever been

and that is an absolute fact ! I predicted the Dems would claim that Trumps better trade deals are weak .. that's after they spent months claiming no trade deals would be made .. the left is shifting strategies in desperation again ..

 

[struth]

and that is an absolute fact ! I predicted the Dems would claim that Trumps better trade deals are weak .. that's after they spent months claiming no trade deals would be made .. the left is shifting strategies in desperation again ..

They are losing so much, they are all over the place and can't focus on anything, they are simply getting left behind...hence the 21 percent approval

 

[yidnar]

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.

no businesses are going to invest ? lol ! Trump has secured over 10 trillion in private business investments in 100 days ! 10 times what Biden got in 4 yrs !

 

[yidnar]

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.

your CCP allies are by far the biggest polluters on earth ! Dems claim they care about the climate but never call out their Chicom allies for the massive pollution China dumps into the environment ..there is an island off garbage nearly twice the size of Texas floating in the Pacific and China is a major reason for that disaster ..

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While pinpointing a single country as most responsible is difficult due to the global nature of plastic pollution, research indicates that Japan and China are major contributors to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. These nations are among the industrialized fishing countries that contribute a significant amount of plastic waste to the ocean. Studies have shown that a large percentage of the trash in the patch originates from these two countries, particularly in the form of fishing equipment and other marine debris.

 

[yidnar]

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.

Teamsters boss praises Trump foreign film tariff, condemns Hollywood's 'un-American addiction to outsourcing'

Two major members of the Teamsters union praised President Trump for proposing a tariff on films produced internationally, blasting Hollywood for "outsourcing good union jobs."

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ICYMI: UAW Praises President Trump’s Auto Tariffs

Today, President Donald J. Trump imposed a 25% tariff on foreign automobiles imported into the United States — a continuation of President Trump’s Made in

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[yidnar]

They are losing so much, they are all over the place and can't focus on anything, they are simply getting left behind...hence the 21 percent approval

and they are getting angrier and more emotional and shrill as each week passes .. they are absolutely losing their minds ! they are hoping Trump fails so badly they are delusional .. the more Trump wins the angrier they get ! and they've only weathered 4 months since his inauguration ! they have 44 months left !

 

[yidnar]

The only "scam" is the U.S. government continuing to pay billions of dollars for oil as it continues to destroy the planet.

walk everywhere you go .. don't use any fossil fuel transportation .. back up your virtue signalling ..

 

[yidnar]

Sure you are. Why, you're a closet Communist aren't you?
We might have more in common than I previously gave you credit for.

are you saying you are a communist .. we already figured that out ..

 

[MagicMike]

are you saying you are a communist .. we already figured that out ..

I make AOC and Bernie look conservative.
And who is "we?" Do you have a caretaker or something?
Often when reading your posts I'll think "hmmm....I wonder who ties this dude's shoes in the morning?"
Now it makes sense.

 

[struth]

and they are getting angrier and more emotional and shrill as each week passes .. they are absolutely losing their minds ! they are hoping Trump fails so badly they are delusional .. the more Trump wins the angrier they get ! and they've only weathered 4 months since his inauguration ! they have 44 months left !

They have fun out ideas and fully embraced the assassination culture

 

[yidnar]

I make AOC and Bernie look conservative.
And who is "we?" Do you have a caretaker or something?
Often when reading your posts I'll think "hmmm....I wonder who ties this dude's shoes in the morning?"
Now it makes sense.

lol ! the fact that you are further left than Bernie or AOC confirms what we already know .. you are an absolute idiot ! lol ! the [we ]are the conservative posters on USMB .. how many face piercing do you have you pathetic freak ?

 

[yidnar]

They have fun out ideas and fully embraced the assassination culture

its disturbing to see ..

 

[jc456]

This is why they say the democrat media lies.

Even the chinese backed the trump version. So, demofks cannot allow it. they must infuse lies through their media puppets with no journalistic values to spread the lies continuously.

 

[ThunderKiss1965]

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/

That time Biden hit China with 100% tariffs on electric vehicles, 50% on solar cells, and 25% on electric vehicle batteries and not a fucking peep from lunatics like yourself.

Are you loons really not aware of the hypocrisy you spew daily. Are you not self-aware or does the thought of anything Trump make all of you loose your goddamn minds. These are rhetorical questions of course just awaiting the typical screaming accusations that I'm a MAGA.

 

[MagicMike]

lol ! the fact that you are further left than Bernie or AOC confirms what we already know .. you are an absolute idiot ! lol ! the [we ]are the conservative posters on USMB .. how many face piercing do you have you pathetic freak ?

No face piercings lol!
Just a few tattoos and a LOT of guns and ammo!
You shouldn't stereotype us libs dude.
The new man-bunners are now conservatives who folliw the likes of wingnuts like Charlie Kirk.
I actually sport a Marine grade flat-top.

 

[yidnar]

No face piercings lol!
Just a few tattoos and a LOT of guns and ammo!
You shouldn't stereotype us libs dude.
The new man-bunners are now conservatives who folliw the likes of wingnuts like Charlie Kirk.
I actually sport a Marine grade flat-top.

lol ! I don't believe you .. you are a weak effeminate leftist ..there are no real men on the modern left .. weakness is a prerequisite when comes to being leftist .. the more to the left you are the weaker you are ..

 

[Dr. Phosphorous]

Trump's solution is that they should just eat the tariffs. He believes that putting price controls on the nation's largest retailer and limiting it's profits might keep his clueless MAGAt cultists in the dark about the true costs of his disastrous tariffs.
Maybe Trump is a closet Commie too.

Indeed....Trump accused Harris of wanting price controls last year and called her a "communist".

But Trump is obviously much more of a "communist" than any Democrat.