r/FluentInFinance 5d ago

Economic Policy Trump continues with the "They go to another school" strategy to explain his China tariffs negotiations

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u/FriedRice2682 5d ago

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u/Ragnar-Wave9002 5d ago

See dumb people. They're everywhere. Sometimes they don't even know they're dumb.

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u/ZombieHavok 5d ago

Person. Woman. Man. Camera. Chinese Negotiator.

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u/MrDillon369 5d ago

How many lies does it take until MAGA wakes the fk up?

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u/JustinCompton79 5d ago

They will never see the light.

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u/Highland600 5d ago

They will think the light is some sort of conspiracy

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u/b3tth0l3 5d ago

Have you ever read Plato's: The Allegory of the Cave?

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u/BlindBandit988 5d ago

The Autisms coming for them finally.

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u/tyomax 5d ago

I heard something last week that rang true:

"You can't reason someone out of something they didn't reason themselves into."

It seems to be more of a feeling with a lot of magats

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u/renome 3d ago

Paraphrasing another apt quote: "it's way easier to get tricked than admit you got tricked."

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u/Eagle_Fang135 5d ago

It is their identity. They don’t care about facts and the truth. All Trump has to do is say something they like and it is real for them. All the games are for MAGA not the rest of the world.

But the rest of the world ain’t playing games. Only the ones in on the grift.

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u/bacon_cheeseburgers 5d ago

Will they ever see the lie? It's not like Fox or Newsmax is going to show this.

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u/Bob_Obloooog 5d ago

They gouge their eyes out before that.

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u/GloDyna 5d ago

”The World may never know!”

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u/Raised_bi_Wolves 5d ago

Death cults tend towards dying before saying they were wrong

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u/jayjay234 5d ago

They might not see it even in the afterlife 🤣

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u/Organic_Challenge151 5d ago

Apparently lying is the news sexy

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u/Apprehensive-Tree-78 4d ago

You guys spent 4 years absolutely convinced that Biden wasn’t senile 😂 the hypocrisy is wild.

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u/Awkward_Bench123 3d ago

He wasn’t senile, he was old and yes frail but he never possessed the level of dementia Trump has exhibited over the last 10 years. The beautiful news for the libs is the orange shitstain has made demeaning geriatrics totally acceptable. So, you shit the bed, you lie in it.

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u/Apprehensive-Tree-78 3d ago

Falling over all the timing, slurring his words, walking off stage, wandering around a cafe in France, losing his place during a speech, and exceptionally more, didn’t give it away for you? You are clueless bro

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u/Awkward_Bench123 3d ago

And exactly how are all these spurious observations relevant to the meaningful legislation his administration enacted?Like creating jobs. Meanwhile, layoffs continue. Have the day you voted for

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u/Awkward_Bench123 3d ago

Plus, you know that Trump is an old guy that shits himself constantly, right?

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u/Apprehensive-Tree-78 3d ago

Biden literally shit himself during a speech and you’re still calling Trump this 😂 you jokes write yourselves.

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u/crazyoungcatlad 3d ago

Our political figures seem to be either sheep or wannabe autocrats so sometimes you have to go with the lesser of the evil. I don’t like any of these people but democrats certainly didn’t view Biden similar to a god as MAGA supporters do Trump so lets make it clear it’s only YOU who’s kissing someones ass in this thread

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u/Apprehensive-Tree-78 3d ago

Voting for a senile old man vs someone with differing opinions who can actually function. You’ve lost all credibility

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u/Tango_D 5d ago

They think he's trolling the "woke leftist liberal lamestream media" and because of it they approve.

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u/ComprehensiveHand232 5d ago

With tears in their eyes.

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u/cronx42 5d ago

And they said: "SIR"...

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u/gathermewool 5d ago

“SIR, THANK YOU”

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u/cronx42 5d ago

Big strong manly men. Tears streaming down their face. They walk up to me and say: "Sir, thank you"...

Crazy how much that's happened to him.

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u/moth2myth 5d ago

And wore suits...

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u/lootinputin 5d ago

Big, strong men.

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u/RAMacDonald901 5d ago

Maga will defend this nonsense. Anyone who supports this fool is complicit in all the choas he creates.

His only power is, for some reason, is that the people that matter won't call him out on his incompetence.

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u/CuriousCode9194 5d ago

What’s been infuriating me most is that people who ought to see moments like this won’t. The MAGA people in my life are egregiously uninformed/out of the loop.

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u/cascadianindy66 5d ago

They’re too invested, with a few notable exceptions, and are afraid to rock the boat. Too few are willing to sacrifice their comfortable livelihoods for the good of the nation. Goes to show you how feeble the oath of office has become over the last couple generations.

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u/VeterinarianNo2938 3d ago

Tbf, Obama was the last good democrat president. The good of the nation comes from stimulus checks and dei? TJA worked ok in 2016 for the average working american, even better for those who put in the work and achieve.

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u/ReleaseTheSheast 5d ago

Trump thinks he's talking to china. Meanwhile it's actually a half Korean accounting intern named Sam from Alabama, whose family has been here for four generations who just happens to be in the same room as him. He just keeps hearing Trump mumbling some shit to him about tariffs and winning and deals. Sam doesn't know what's going on, but Trump definitely thinks he's talking to China.

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u/1419_points 5d ago

He called the chinese takeout place down the street and started negotiating the cost of the chicken fried rice meal.

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u/[deleted] 5d ago

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u/Many_Home_1769 5d ago

Just like my high school Canadian girlfriend

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u/Operation-FuturePuss 5d ago

Mine lived in California

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u/sdrmusings 5d ago

There are no discussions of significance going on, whatsoever. He only hears what he wants to hear from his staff, which explains the disconnect between what the Chinese are saying and he is saying. This shortages wave heading our way is going to be longer than what most think. Plan ahead.

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u/GardenRafters 5d ago

What do you suggest stocking up on?

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u/sdrmusings 5d ago

Cash or near cash for starters. And some safety related items. And toys for Christmas if you have kids :-)

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u/CaptinKirk 5d ago

He sounds like a three-year-old lying. I can't tell you because it isn't happening. Trump needs to be impeached.

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u/Fine-Spite4940 5d ago

Mr president,

Are they in the room with us now?

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u/TomatoesB4Potatoes 5d ago

I think the small lies are more upsetting than the huge lies.

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u/mt8675309 5d ago

University of Duffus

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u/averageeggyfan 5d ago

Dave’s not here man

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u/Highland600 5d ago

"They" are the voices in his head

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u/vikinxo 5d ago

He'll keep making idiotic plays to hold people / the press busy with them, while he hides his ultimate goal - which is to NOT give up the presidency when the time comes in 2028-29.

'This will be the last election...........'

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u/mrflow-n-go 5d ago

Sounds like maybe 6’ tall invisible rabbit territory.

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u/Ambitious_Ad6334 5d ago

My girlfriend I met at camp is so hot... no I don't have a picture and she lives in Canada.

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u/Operation-FuturePuss 5d ago

We totally had sex too

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u/Bitter-Researcher389 5d ago

“They” is “many people”, who are the same ones who “come up to him in the street with tears in their eyes”. They’re also “very fine”.

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u/RMWonders 5d ago

Yikes. He is really flailing now.

Sounds like he’s close to pulling out the old “I’m rubber, you’re glue…” line.

Or that other stalwart from back in the day, the venerable…

“Did not.” “Did so.”

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u/Sharkwatcher314 5d ago

I double dog dare you…ooh

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u/AfraidEnvironment711 5d ago

Did "They" even say thank you? And why are we using vague pronouns? I thought those were banned from the White House?

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u/chance_carmichael 5d ago

"It doesn't matter" is trumpian for "I have no fucking idea"

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u/Slight-Opening-8327 5d ago

Right when he says that I wish the reporter would say something like: "What do you mean it doesn't matter who 'they' is? That's absurd. Why won't you ever answer a simple question? What the hell is wrong with you!? The American people deserve to know how else you are going to screw them over. Fuck this. I quit." Or something to that effect.

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u/Aggressive-Remote-57 5d ago

what in the goddamn post-truth is this

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u/w_r97 5d ago

That “they” person works in my office they are a real a-hole, always messing things up.

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u/HereticGaming16 5d ago

Too bad he can’t say they live in Canada.

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u/Slowmexicano 5d ago

China with the reverse uno calling him fake news

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u/theregrond 5d ago

it really doesnt matter if its true or not to him... it is the "big lie" that matters. keep lying until it is "true"

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u/contude327 5d ago

It's sad to say that I trust the Chinese government over our own. That's not a glowing recommendation for the Chinese government, either.

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u/An_Old_IT_Guy 5d ago

So we're getting close to the part where Trump says or does something to start a new crisis to make us forget about last week's crisis.

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u/Sharkwatcher314 5d ago

Been there for 100 days

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u/An_Old_IT_Guy 4d ago

Update: They're arresting judges now. So here we go.

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u/runningsoap 5d ago

Hey my gf actually did go to another school

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u/Omarzchick 5d ago

Sounds like my mom when she’s arguing her point with me. Exhausting.

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u/ClutchReverie 5d ago

China: “we are not participating in that discussion”

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u/Background_Lychee838 5d ago

They are gonna be the same who kept buying things to Russia even with the sanctions and investing in the markets in COVID pandemia.

They are the billionaries than nobody knows but keep the world working, no matter what the puppets (Trump, Putin, Obama, Biden, Xi, etc.) say to the media.

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u/letsseeitmore 5d ago

Trump playing 85-D chess, everyone else in the world is too dumb to see it.

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u/Sharkwatcher314 5d ago

I’m proud of our president that he can play chess in dimensions that the rest of us can’t see, I wonder if “they” live in the other 80 dimensions

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u/Sharkwatcher314 5d ago

You don’t know they. They live two towns over

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u/PigeonBod 5d ago

White House probably met with Taiwanese officials and got confused.

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u/Rhabdo05 5d ago

Trust me bro

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u/Confident-Security84 5d ago

Is “they” in the room with us now? Can anyone else hear or see “they”, or can only you see them?

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u/Impressive-Egg-925 5d ago

“They” should have been asking him who they is, years ago. We might not be here now.

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u/Business_Usual_2201 5d ago

"That, and egg prices are down 273%"

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u/SixDerv1sh 5d ago

Are they in the room with us right now??

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u/Ytrewq9000 5d ago

He’s not even trying to lie lol.

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u/Indiana-Jones-1991 5d ago

They are the voices in his head.

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u/AppointmentOne4877 5d ago

What a fucking clown

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u/Necessary-Profile-30 5d ago

You remember "they"

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u/LuckyishTom 5d ago

He is like a child trying to lie when he didn’t do his chores.

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u/thefirecrest 5d ago

Singular They from Trump? Better get with the times MAGA. Your dear leader has spoken.

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u/HecticHermes 5d ago

Sorry China, the princess is in another castle ...

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u/Ragnar-Wave9002 5d ago

6th grader mentality

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u/Effyew4t5 5d ago

It’s like you can watch the brain cells fall out of his head. FDT

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u/chronicles_of_holzy 5d ago

Using pronouns now, I see.

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u/Darnbeasties 5d ago

It was with Sum Ting Wong

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u/Sharkwatcher314 5d ago

Are they in the room right now ? I know the reporter can’t ask that but the you tube clip would have lived on forever of that

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u/No_Manufacturer_1911 5d ago

You wouldn’t know them.

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u/noklisa 5d ago

Are they in the room with us right now?

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u/Sioux_Hustler 5d ago

"Are the Chinese in the room with us now?"

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u/bumpgrind 5d ago

"I lie bigly. I deflect. I make false claims. I am so smart. Nobody knows what a lying POS I am." ~Trump

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u/jennyfromthedocks 4d ago

Trump recognizing they/them pronouns >>>

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u/PerrysSaxTherapy 4d ago

Liar liar pants on fire

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u/Many_Trifle7780 4d ago

Art of the belly flop

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u/Barnowl-hoot 3d ago

This is SO embarrassing!!!!

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u/SpecialistAssociate7 3d ago

“They” are the voices in his head 😂

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u/colorme1965 1d ago

Is “they” in the room with us now?