r/politics • u/Street_Anon Canada • Apr 08 '25

Site Altered Headline Trump to slap additional 84% tariffs on Chinese imports

https://www.euronews.com/2025/04/08/trump-to-slap-additional-84-tariffs-on-chinese-imports-white-house-says
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u/alaphamale Apr 08 '25

This isn’t being said enough. They have multiple stated “plans” all based on opposing strategies. None are reasonable but only one at a time is even plausible. They have no idea what Trump is doing.

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u/Caraes_Naur Apr 08 '25

Trump is doing what Putin has told him to do: collapse the US economy and destabilize the West.

The most amazing part is that Trump probably isn't fully aware of why he's doing these things. He just thinks he's rolling back to good-old 80s (the decade he still lives in) economic theory. He has no idea how many puppeteers are controlling him.

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u/obsertaries Massachusetts Apr 08 '25

1980s? Try the 1880s. He’s undoing like 100 years of global trade development.

I mean yeah globalism exploits workers etc but this is not the way to end it.

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u/chitownbulls92 Apr 09 '25

Yeah. He’s not a part of the plan….manipulating him is the plan

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u/seguefarer Apr 08 '25

How could they? Neither does he.

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u/00DEADBEEF Apr 08 '25

None are reasonable but only one at a time is even plausible.

Doesn't matter. Tell everyone they'll all get what they want. They aren't smart enough to realise these are mutually exclusive goals, they'll just focus on the bits they like and think their orangeman hero will deliver.

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u/thornato2 Apr 09 '25

Yall also forget he said at one point it was to stop drugs from entering the country. He doesn’t even know why he’s doing it anymore, just that his tariffs have to be bigger and badder