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

[Unkotare]

What a coward.

What a dumbass.

 

[Unkotare]

Don't dodge now. You boasted of being more "educated" than everyone here. Give with the details, punk.

^^^^^^

 

[Dr. Phosphorous]

What a dumbass.

Well...at least I'm not a coward like you.

You are too scared to reveal who you voted for on an anonymous message board....pitiful little shit.

 

[Unkotare]

...

You are too scared to reveal who you voted for ...

You're too stupid to understand why we vote in those little booths. You keep boasting about your education, but you keep demonstrating how stupid you are.

 

[Dr. Phosphorous]

You're too stupid to understand why we vote in those little booths. You keep boasting about your education, but you keep demonstrating how stupid you are.

It's a political message board....with ******* anonymous posters, simp.

So pathetic....cowardly as ****.

 

[Unkotare]

It's a political message board....

Wow, you really ARE smart!

 

[Dr. Phosphorous]

Wow, you really ARE smart!

Coward.

 

[Unkotare]

Coward.

Uneducated idiot.

 

[TemplarKormac]

Hi!

 

[TemplarKormac]

Uneducated idiot.

Now, to see what led to this war of words.

 

[TemplarKormac]

I take it seriously.

Uneducated MAGA bumpkins like you? Definitely not.

Ah.

So here it is. Now, after that little display you put on in the thread about the Trump tariffs being blocked, you shouldn't be coming here calling anyone uneducated. Seriously. It wasn't less that 15 hours before the appeal was won in court and the tariffs continued.

"Your MAGA tears are delicious"

Okay cool. So, how can you taste tears when you're sucking Biden's d**k?

 

[TemplarKormac]

It's a political message board....with ******* anonymous posters, simp.

Doesn't give you an excuse to be stupid... unless that's who and what you really are.

 

[TemplarKormac]

Well...at least I'm not a coward like you.

You are too scared to reveal who you voted for on an anonymous message board....pitiful little shit.

So, who did you vote for?

 

[TemplarKormac]

Seriously....if you didn't vote for Trump, then why be an asshole on here towards liberals?

Hurt feelings? Too bad.

Someone doesn't have to support Trump to know far-leftists are assholes. There are moderate leftists that think far-leftists are assholes.

People like Elon Musk, Ronald Reagan, and Donald Trump were people on the left who were alienated by your party, now they were and are our side.

So, why are you just an all-around asshole?

 

[JimH52]

When a bunch of poor Trump voters in red states start losing their Medicaid benefits, it will be a nasty wake-up call for them.

I see inflation and the pain from the Big Beautiful Bill coming late this year or early next, just in time to kill the midterm for repubs. Thanks Donald, you dumb SOB.

 

[Dr. Phosphorous]

Hurt feelings? Too bad.

Someone doesn't have to support Trump to know far-leftists are assholes. There are moderate leftists that think far-leftists are assholes.

People like Elon Musk, Ronald Reagan, and Donald Trump were people on the left who were alienated by your party, now they were and are our side.

So, why are you just an all-around asshole?

Reposting all my greatest hits?

What a mentally disturbed MAGA troll. Seek help.

 

[Paradoxical#1]

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 ******* 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 Art of the Deal.
You never ever start out your negotiations with what you think you can get.

Have any of you ever been in business or do you all work for the government?

 

[Zincwarrior]

^^^^

Trump phone will be made in China
. Probably no tariff.

 

[bambu.]

Does President Trump really know anything about trade, free trade agreements, diplomacy?

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...tariff-free rice,per year under the framework.

US President Donald Trump sharply criticized Japan's rice policy on Monday. He claimed Japan "won't buy" American rice, despite a nationwide shortage, and hinted he is pressing Tokyo on the issue in trade negotiations.

In a Truth Social post, he accused Japan of being "spoiled," and warned he may be sending the nation a "letter."
The president did not say what would be in the letter. But he has recently mentioned his administration will soon send letters to some countries about their tariff rates.

 

[Dr. Phosphorous]

Does President Trump really know anything about trade, free trade agreements, diplomacy?

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20250701_N02/#:~:text=Japan imports tariff-free rice,per year under the framework.

US President Donald Trump sharply criticized Japan's rice policy on Monday. He claimed Japan "won't buy" American rice, despite a nationwide shortage, and hinted he is pressing Tokyo on the issue in trade negotiations.

In a Truth Social post, he accused Japan of being "spoiled," and warned he may be sending the nation a "letter."
The president did not say what would be in the letter. But he has recently mentioned his administration will soon send letters to some countries about their tariff rates.

Trump obviously doesn't....which is why it's really quite amazing how millions of brain dead MAGA Americans actually believe this mentally ill sociopath with a 5th grade education has any ******* clue what he is talking about.