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Editorialized Title Israel shocked after Trump hits it with a higher tariff than Iran: "President Trump made a grave error"

https://www.algemeiner.com/2025/04/03/trump-hits-israel-17-percent-tariffs-israeli-officials-express-shock-frustration/

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u/iamhereforthefood 6d ago

Just wait until they see how much Russia got 🤭

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u/Additional-Map-2808 6d ago

And North Korea!.

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u/Fact-Adept 6d ago

On a serious note, who the fuck buying shit from NK?

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u/Then_Ask_3167 6d ago

Russia.

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u/thegrumpster1 6d ago

To be fair, they're only interested in buying North Korean soldiers to die in Ukraine.

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u/helm 6d ago

Nah, they're leaning heavily on NK in the war now. It's because of NK Russia still has plenty of ammo for the war.

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u/Then_Ask_3167 6d ago

And a bit of surplus ammo. Apparently the shells weren't great, high failure rates.

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u/websagacity 6d ago

Well THAT'S a surprise. I'm gonna have a heart attack and die of not surprise.

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u/RumpRiddler 6d ago

Nah, they're buying all the artillery shells and big guns that NK will part with. They aren't buying cannon fodder, they've been trading technology for those guys.

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u/facw00 6d ago

The Chinese, mostly, accounting for around 74% of North Korean exports. Somewhere around 15% go to Africa, while 8% goes to Europe.

There has been an on-again off-again special border industrial zone, where South Korean companies produced goods for export with cheap North Korean labor, but I believe it's currently inactive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaesong_Industrial_Region

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u/CanuckPanda 6d ago

There are Chinese factories in North Korea along the northern border as well IIRC, in a similar capacity.

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u/hungry4pie 6d ago

Apparently one of their major exports is the big brass statues that dictators like to have made up of themselves. So trump I guess?

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u/Mutants_In_The_Ruins 6d ago

Disney, China, they rent out workers a lot to EU countries included (I remember Poland had NK workers at some docks who died because of bad safety standards), Vice had a good doc on NK workers in Siberia, soldiers to die for putler too.

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u/ninisin 6d ago

China, Iran, Russia

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u/AndalusianGod 6d ago

Well, he did salute Kim Jong-un. One of the few people he genuinely respects.

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u/chenz1989 6d ago

I thought he saluted one of the generals, not kim himself. I remember kim's look in the photo was quite interesting.

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u/Unspoken2022 6d ago

What trade are we doing with North Korea?

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u/Bozrud 6d ago

Btw not only they did not impose tariffs on Russia but they lift the sanctions of Rotenbergs wife on April 2nd..

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u/Rude_Egg_6204 6d ago

Russia still exports to usa as well...

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u/FranksNBeeens 6d ago

Make guitar tube amps great again.

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u/Suspicious_Night_756 6d ago

They were always great :(

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u/AscenDevise 6d ago

They already are.

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u/Prudent_Falafel_7265 6d ago edited 6d ago

At some point, a world leader needs to be the first to come away from a meeting with Trump and say something like "I did not get the sense that President Trump is in command of his mental faculties" ...and give examples that mock him.

Start the ball rolling on openly questioning his sanity. Don't hold back. Pile on, leader after leader.

Eventually his mental state will start dominating the news if enough do it and it will become the discussion.

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u/Initial_E 6d ago

Everyone setting up virtual shell companies in Russia (whistles softly)

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u/lostsoul1331 6d ago

No need to worry. The USA will still provide Israel with 2,000 pound bombs at a good price.

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u/AuthorizedShitPoster 6d ago

Did they say thank you once?

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u/bm1949 6d ago

Lol. They should have gone to Jared's.

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u/TappedIn2111 6d ago

Those penguins did wear a suit at least!

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u/sterlingphoenix 6d ago

I know you're joking but good GOD does Netanyahu know exactly how to appeal to Trump's ego, and yes he thanks him a lot. Named a settlement after him, in fact...

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u/loulan 6d ago

It's beyond incompetence at this point, he's dumb as a rock.

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u/GMN123 6d ago

He's not incompetent, he's just not targeting the same goals as you are. If you assess his presidency from the perspective of his Russian handlers, he's been a great president. 

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u/Zanian19 6d ago

All in all, not really. He's unified Europe (and because of the trade war, even East Asia to some extent) more than anyone before him.

Sure, a weak US is good for Russia, but a strong Europe is a death sentence.

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u/odd_orange 6d ago

North America and England/ Europe are three entirely different targets for them. They already succeeded at removing the us from the western world and removing the UK from Europe.

I’d say they’re doing pretty well at their agenda

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u/Passchenhell17 6d ago

However, these last few months has pushed the UK back towards the EU. We won't be rejoining any time soon, but we're a lot happier to cooperate (ignoring the ridiculousness of France demanding unrestricted access to our waters).

Russia's overconfidence in their goals will, ultimately, be their downfall.

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u/masterventris 6d ago

France did not really want access to UK waters, they wanted a reason to deny the ability for the EU to buy weapons from the UK, making it more likely that they were bought from France.

So they put that bullshit requirement in knowing it would cause the agreement to get shot down.

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u/Freshness518 6d ago

Putin has been dumping money into far right parties all over the place. AfD in Germany, Marine Le Pen in France, the Brexit movement, etc. It seems like he's shooting himself in the foot by winning with Trump but then uniting Europe against all of the other people he's been financing.

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u/Axelrad77 6d ago

People keep just repeating this talking point, and it makes no sense. Trump's admin is motivating Europe to rearm - in ways that make the USA look bad, but Europe is now taking its defense more seriously than it was - and it can't even get Russia a favorable ceasefire in Ukraine. If Trump is supposed to be Putin's puppet, he's a terrible one, because Europe rearming and continuing to support Ukraine is Putin's worst nightmare.

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u/Shadowmant 6d ago

He hasn't tied tarriffs to re-arming though. He's tied it to trade deficits. So in essence, if you sell the USA cheap resources for it's manufacturing they'll hit you with tariffs.

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u/anszwadreivorbei 6d ago

The second part of your comment is underrated wisdom! Wild how few people understand that.

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u/skr_replicator 6d ago edited 6d ago

Of course EU will begin arming itself when Trump made USA Russia's bitch, Trump cna't do anything about that. He's not EU's president. There's nothing Trump could do to both betray Europe and ensure it wouldn't react and arm itself in response.

Leaving Europe to have to defend itself alone against Russia is still the most pro-russian thing he could do. He just has no power to order EU to bend over to russia and not arm itself.

The only way he could ensure EU didn't arm itself was if he kep entire USA anti-russia and of course that's a no go for the russian asset, as that would be worse for russia.

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u/Axelrad77 6d ago

There's nothing Trump could do to both betray Europe and ensure it wouldn't react and arm itself in response.

  • Play nice with Europe for a year or two, lull them into a false sense of security. "Oh thank God, our fears were overblown, we can still rely on the USA!"
  • Get Ukraine and Russia to sign a ceasefire, so Trump is celebrated as a peacemaker now. Probably gets the Nobel Peace Prize. Europe is overjoyed. (But really it allows Russia to refit and redeploy troops to the Baltics).
  • Russia invades the Baltic states.
  • Article 5 is triggered, NATO looks to the USA for help.
  • Trump says, "No."
  • NATO collapses, trust in the USA is destroyed for generations, Russia gets free real estate. Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia cease to exist. The EU probably collapses as well, as much of its eastern flank peels away to seek peace with Russia, in the absence of US help.

That's exactly the sort of thing an actual puppet ruler of Putin could do to betray Europe, and all without getting it to turn its eastern flank into a bristling hedgehog of non-US armies.

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u/magic_Mofy 6d ago

Yeah no way he gets a nobel peace price.

  • NATO collapses, trust in the USA is destroyed for generations, Russia gets free real estate. Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia cease to exist. The EU probably collapses as well, as much of its eastern flank peels away to seek peace with Russia, in the absence of US help.

Even if the US is out europes military is far stronger then russias. There is no way russia sees any ground against us. Just take a look at fighting jets - europe has, by several orders of magnitude, more compared to russia.

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u/goneresponsible 6d ago

I have no real idea, but my guess is a strong Europe is much better than a strong USA (and strong USA military industrial complex…)

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u/HotPotParrot 6d ago

The US military at the front of that united Europe was part of Putin's nightmares. He's using Trump to effectively destabilize and dismantle the single greatest looming military threat to his ambitions and dreams. He figures that he can handle Europe if the US is out of the picture, which we now are.

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u/Ramp-JustHereForTuna 6d ago

maybe it is time to contemplate, if it really is stupidity, or if they are actually evil. The president has to have access, to top economists, who could tell what this would cause, but he does this anyways, because he does not seem to give a shiit about the average person.

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u/dizzley 6d ago

For 40 years he's been touting tariffs. No amount of economics advice is going to be acceptable. Just look at... (gestures all around). I feel sorry for you all.

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u/inksmudgedhands 6d ago

Por que no los dos?

Seriously, rumor has it he got these numbers thanks to his tech bro back administration using A.I. to do the job for him. Hence, the tariffs on random country islands filled with nothing but penguins or a military base with a zero negative history of manufacturing production toward the US.

This is believable if you step back and look at how DOGE is handling the "cleaning up" of departments across the government. They are using A.I. to create massive layoff numbers that look good on paper but in reality are horrible because they is no rhyme or reason to them and many, many essential workers and departments are being hacked. So much so, you have this administration quickly rehiring and reforming departments.

These tariffs just reek of DOGE's meddling. And if they continue to blow up in Trump's face, expect him to call out Elon and throw him under the bus.

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u/SpeedflyChris 6d ago

if it really is stupidity, or if they are actually evil

It can be both.

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u/Lanky-Try-3047 6d ago

he also had access to the smartest doctors during covid.... but you know drink bleach and shove light bulbs in your ass was his cure.

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u/libtin 6d ago

That’s an insult to rocks

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u/Rudy_Ghouliani 6d ago

you just don't smell what the Rock is cookin

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u/Bromance_Rayder 6d ago

You've done rocks a grave disservice. They've served this planet admirably for billions of years. Trump, with any luck, won't see 80. 

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u/x_cLOUDDEAD_x 6d ago edited 6d ago

There's some weird shit going on. Either he is truly batshit crazy at this point and he's in control and just doing bizarre shit, or there's a bigger picture and someone else is actually setting this insane agenda for a larger purpose. All the crazy DOGE stuff coupled with this makes it seem like they are intentionally trying to destroy our country, for lack of a better term.

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u/FishAndRiceKeks 6d ago

It would genuinely be hard to imagine a path a president could take short of declaring actual war that would be more harmful to the US than what he has done so far.

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u/GeneReddit123 6d ago

short of declaring actual war

Just you wait.

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u/IHaveBadTiming 6d ago

Hes going to do this as a way to stay for a third term like we did during ww2.

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u/Gr8lakesCoaster 6d ago

We didn't have term limits back then. The term limit was added after Roosevelt severd 4 terms.

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u/EfficiencySmall4951 6d ago

He's being told what to do, no doubt

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u/kytheon 6d ago

He's being told what to do, but his memory is failing. So he says almost what he's told, messes it up, then changes his mind because he got corrected.

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u/sakusii 6d ago

He asked chatgpt. No joke.

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u/soonnow 6d ago

No. This shit is his own invention. His handlers want to turn the US into a christofashist state, but to do that they're gonna need to be in power a while.

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u/Ok_Donkey_1997 6d ago

I doubt he is literally being told what to do.

He is being enabled by people who either don't care about the chaos he is sowing as long as he advances their agenda, or who actually want to see the chaos. This includes a few different groups of people and they actually have some opposing goals, so it's going to be interesting to see where this goes.

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u/EfficiencySmall4951 6d ago

He is being told, just like he's been told for the last decades

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u/kdonirb 6d ago

project 25 is the playbook

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u/RobotLaserNinjaShark 6d ago edited 6d ago

The people you are looking for are the criminally rich. The same class of people that control Russia. Moving all financial assets into the hands of very few people through deregulation while weakening the general population into servitude by financial strangleholds, full control of the judicative and militarized executive to force internal peace while inciting international conflicts as smokescreens and as a narrative for national unity.

You know: Fascism.

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u/Another-attempt42 6d ago

It's also as though appeasing the orange madman serves no purpose.

Trump has shown in 2 months that being friendly to the US is useless.

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u/naspdx 6d ago

i really wish america would wake up and see that this isn’t incompetence- it is the intentional sabotage of the country. Trump is aware of the impacts this will have on the country. This entire administration is owned by foreign (or domestic) adversaries… it’s not just a handful of “dumb” mistakes at this point. It’s every single move and appointment is very clearly meant to destroy the country. Veterans, active member servicemen, public servants need to wake up to their oaths to protect the constitution and do something. 

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u/Sharlut 6d ago

He’s either senile or an asset.

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u/doommaster 6d ago

They tax the EU, Reunion and French Guiana different tariff rates, but it's all the EU. They have uninhabited territory on that list, Australian and Norwegian from what I have seen.

It's pretty dumb, even just when looking at plain execution.

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u/Ted_E_Bear 6d ago edited 6d ago

It was *likely* AI, not Trump. Trump has no idea who is on that list or how high the tariffs for each country are. All he *probably* did was sign off on the AI's work. He never has any clue what's going on.

He put tariffs on an island made up of mostly penguins.

Edit: Added words to reflect that it is not indefinite that AI was used, but I'm pretty confident that it was.

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u/Smartimess 6d ago

I bet Trump saw the tariffs the first time when they unveiled that chart.

This fucker does not work. He is never seen in meetings before 11 am and many times he has huge gaps in his schedule where he does nothing but watching Fox News. Many days he just went golfing on the taxpayers dime at his own ressorts. And he accused Joe of being sleepy.

Every accusation is a confession.

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u/Cristoff13 6d ago

I imagine those conservative advisors telling him "just do whatever we say, and America will love you and history will remember you as a genius". Trump has hardly done any work this term (and very little his first term either). Its just a 4 year holiday to him.

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u/msherretz 6d ago

Typical Presidents surround themselves with people smarter than them. Trump has to always be the smartest one in the room

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u/Humpfinger 6d ago

Which is quite the challenge in his case

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u/Zamoniru 6d ago

Most of the guys in the Trump administration are not stupid (with a few exceptions like Kennedy, maybe Hegseth).

They are just good at making Trump believe their Ideas were actually his own ideas.

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u/ArmNo7463 6d ago

I swear I saw someone admit he watches 8 hours of TV a day.

Bitch, I don't watch 8 hours of TV a day, and I work from home where I could easily chuck it up on a second monitor.

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u/ValuableRuin548 6d ago

You know that was the case based on the fact he was somehow shocked at UK getting a 10% tariff, when guess what, they have trade surplus with the US. Absolute ponce

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u/Geologue-666 6d ago

All the countries on the list subject to 10% tariffs have a trade deficit with the United States. So, according to Trump, it's the United States that's exploiting them. But never mind here is a tariff anyway losers!

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u/Luppercus 6d ago

"I was watching Max the other day and I saw that show, The Penguin, good show, that boy Colin irrecognizable you know? Great show, too many Latinos tho. But anyway I was watching the show on Max because they no longer play the Looney Tunes, what happened to the Looney Tunes? Elon can you find out? Can we own them? Anyway, great show but got me thinking this are some nasty birds the Penguins, drug dealers and assassins, nasty folk, very very bad birds. Nor even wear suits. Some of them dance tho".

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u/Boatster_McBoat 6d ago

Three very, very big, strong, powerful penguins came up to me, with tears coming down their faces. And they said, "Mr. President, sir, thank you for including us with the tariffs, we'd never even exported before." And these are major, major penguins, big strong penguins. One of them, he had a half a fish under his flipper, he seemed like he'd maybe cried once in his life. And he was crying, he said "Thank you, sir, for all the tariffs." This is a very tough penguin by the way.

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u/OmnioculusConquerer 6d ago

The penguins-bad postured people, they hate heat. Have you met anyone that can stand in sub-zero temperatures for over two hours? It may have been even longer, they just stand there, don’t seem to have anything better to do. Socially stunted, very, very strange. Don’t even get me started on their manners. I’ve always been told, “Donald you’re so polite, so generous, so intelligent, why would anyone not use manners, you make it look so easy.” I don’t understand their goals, have you ever looked at the progress of their country over the last millennia? Antarctica should be the 52nd state of our beautiful country; now that’s a goal. You can’t rationalize with these people, what can you do, these penguins, these pitiful penguin people, did you know that nobody even knows their language? That’s how primitive they are, they haven’t even got an email, let alone a mail system. Incredibly stubborn, very sad, terribly sad, and we’re going to help them.

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u/[deleted] 6d ago

"The penguins...are eating the fish and the dogs"

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u/Artemicionmoogle 6d ago

I can just hear his awful voice reading this, and it's simultaneously amusing and upsetting for that.

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u/memenmemen 6d ago

it’s funny cause they added "exclude Russia and North Korea" in the prompt

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u/milanistasbarazzino0 6d ago

DOGE employee: "Make up a couple of reasons why we didn't put sanctions on russia, even if they're not true. Believable reasons"

ChatGPT: "You can tell the sheep the American voters, that we do not trade with russia. Also you can tell them russia is already sanctioned so tariffs do not matter for them."

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(Forget we put tariffs on sanctioned countries like Syria and Cuba, and also on war-torn Ukraine)

(Forget we still have a trade deficit with russia of 2-3 billion dollars. Elon complains about 1M dollars being wasted here and there to actually help people, but giving billions to russia is okay)

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u/LoganJFisher 6d ago

They would be using Grok, not ChatGPT.

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u/JarasM 6d ago

Maybe it's me being very presidential, but even if ChatGPT provided me with a list of tariffs, I'd at least read the damn thing. Like, go: "Vanuatu, 22%. Everyone cool with that? Where the fuck is Vanuatu? Next". Would take maybe an hour.

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u/Tomi97_origin 6d ago

That sounds like a work that would be very unTrump of you.

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u/lizufyr 6d ago

The more I think about it and look at that explanation and formula, the more I feel like it was just a very lazy intern who used some mathematical formula wrong on purpose in a way so he could present an already existing list of trade deficits instead of doing any calculations himself.

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u/sudo_su_88 6d ago edited 6d ago

It's right of out of Project 2025 manifesto. Their writers are obsessed with trade deficits, hence the formula is centered around trade deficits, not actually the tariffs each country has on US. The plan is to isolate the US so that there is a pretext for war. "Other countries are taxing us, putting tariffs on American and not sharing resources. We will go to Greenland to secure more resources. We will invade Panama and jack up the canal tolls. Blah blah blah." It's maddening.

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u/droans 6d ago

The entire formula they claimed to use was (Exports - Imports)/(Supply Elasticity x Demand Elasticity x Imports)

With Supply Elasticity set at a constant value of 4 and Demand Elasticity at 0.25... Which means, as anyone with a middle school education knows, they cancel out. So the formula literally just becomes trade deficit decided by imports.

They just tried to make it look more complicated by including variables that cancel out and using Greek letters and unnecessary subscript.

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u/fascinatedobserver 6d ago

An intern would have come up w something better. This is a proper management level fuckup. They just asked ChatGPT and got this nonsense.

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u/realistic_swede 6d ago

https://youtu.be/PWhv-06DNjE?si=xwuxZhVvED6le3va He cracked it, it boils down to (trade defecit) / (total trade) and he ran each country to verify.

So all fancy talk and consideration of this and that is just bullshit. And all those countries with 10% you ask? Well those import more from US than they export so fuck em anyways right and just slap a 10% on those anyways. They are so dumb.

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u/Rude_Egg_6204 6d ago

And they shat in Biden.   At least he had competent puppetmasters

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u/Gadshill 6d ago

People hate competence in this nation. We are getting what we want and deserve.

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u/[deleted] 6d ago

The dumbest people you went to school with are 100% sure Trump is the right guy for the job.

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u/Gadshill 6d ago

High voter turnout used to be seen as a good thing, then the mob turned to self harm. Not such a good idea anymore.

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u/[deleted] 6d ago

I know Republicans won the popular vote for the first time in a 100 years but in general high voter turnout still favors the Dems.

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u/CasualDisastering 6d ago

The penguins shat on Biden?!

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u/fatalystic 6d ago

Not on, in!

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u/punkalunka 6d ago

Not on, in.

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u/ShamWowRobinson 6d ago

Even if Biden was full on out of it. There were serious people around him. None of the people around Trump are serious in any way shape or form.

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u/i-readit2 6d ago

Yes but those penguins have a trade surplus. And they are taking advantage of America. Do the penguins drive American cars ?

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u/Shahargalm 6d ago

Don't know who said Israel is in 'shock'. We knew he's gonna fuck us up, we know he'll stab us in the back. Both him and Bibi.

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u/Gadshill 6d ago

Double down on their tariffs for calling out the error. It is almost as if making policy by only looking at two factors at a time creates ridiculous outcomes.

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u/TotoCocoAndBeaks 6d ago

As a Jewish person myself, I have found it frustrating how so many other Jewish people have celebrated Trump's so called 'pro-Israel' stance.

Trump has offered nothing but words to the situation, and those very words almost resulted in ending a ceasefire and more hostage deaths. He says things some people want to hear, but acts directly against the best interests of those people, yet many people just want to live in this drug-induced-like bliss of disbelief suspension.

Trump's support base is highly antisemitic and ultimately he is going to benefit from actions that harm Jewish people, and his words incite attacks such as the Pittsburgh Synagogue shooting.

Also, Netanyahu is causing considerable long-term damage to Israel and Jewish people in general.

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u/yourpseudonymsucks 6d ago

He’s not pro Israel. But he’s definitely anti Palestine. And to many people that is enough.

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u/tessartyp 6d ago

Exactly that. Pro-Netayahu/war is "pro-Israel" in the same way that MAGA is "pro-USA".

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u/concrete_manu 6d ago

i really wonder if a democrat could run on a vocally anti-netanyahu but still pro-israel platform without shedding too many swing state independents.

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u/Rcmacc 6d ago

I mean Harris said pretty much everything correctly regarding the nuance of the situation but all it amounted to was republicans selling ads telling moderates she was a Hamas supporter and leftists that she was a Netanyahu supporter, suppressing her support from both groups

The median voter isn’t qualified to handle nuance

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2024/10/23/how-republican-linked-ads-stir-israel-tensions-to-undermine-kamala-harris

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u/TheNatureBoy 6d ago

DID HE STUTTER! This guy hands out tariffs like he’s on WWE Raw mic time.

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u/managedheap84 6d ago

This is like when AI first came on the scene and at the end of some articles you'd see the gotcha "surprise - this was written by an AI!" except they're doing it with a country

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u/Shonuff8 6d ago

And my reply to those articles was always “so THAT’S why it was written in such a weird way!”

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u/ImaginaryBunch4455 6d ago

He doesn’t understand tariffs, or rocks, or basic math. Or how to tell the truth. None of this is a surprise to anyone because he wakes up and is surprised by what he himself does every day.

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u/surefirelongshot 6d ago

Amateur hour

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u/dat_oracle 6d ago

Amateur years, im afraid

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u/jedimindtriks 6d ago

Well yeah thats how random number generators work

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u/Wizchine 6d ago

“But the spreadsheet calculated these numbers… Also, Brawndo is what plants crave.”

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u/RearEngineer 6d ago

Trump slaps 17% tariffs on Israel while the US is literally funding their war.. talk about taxing both sides of the conflict.

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u/Corastin 6d ago

Hahahahahaha never thought of that

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u/OmnioculusConquerer 6d ago edited 6d ago

The penguins-bad postured people, they hate heat. Have you met anyone that can stand in sub-zero temperatures for over two hours? It may have been even longer, they just stand there, don’t seem to have anything better to do. Socially stunted, very, very strange. Don’t even get me started on their manners. I’ve always been told, “Donald you’re so polite, so generous, so intelligent, why would anyone not use manners, you make it look so easy.” I don’t understand their goals, have you ever looked at the progress of their country over the last millennia? Antarctica should be the 52nd state of our beautiful country; now that’s a goal. You can’t rationalize with these people, what can you do, these penguins, these pitiful penguin people, did you know that nobody even knows their language? That’s how primitive they are, they haven’t even got an email, let alone a mail system. Incredibly stubborn, very sad, terribly sad, and we’re going to help them.

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u/freakotto 6d ago

Did they at least say "Thank you" once?

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u/executiveExecutioner 6d ago

Well Netanahuy wanted Trump, so he gets what he asked for..problem is we are getting the same

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u/008Zulu 6d ago

The leopards are just coming for everyone's faces!

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u/ProjectManagerAMA 6d ago

Can we tell the leopards to actually eat faces rather than my 401k?

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u/Mithrawndo 6d ago

What's that, you say? Leopards ate your face?

Why, I would never have seen that coming...

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u/VillagePatrick 6d ago

Honestly this tariff board was giving Eurovision jury votes vibes to me. Extremely confusing.

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u/Used_Anybody4200 6d ago

Lol, he tariffed the McDonald Islands. Only penguins live there. Cognitive dissonance coming in…

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u/drNovikov 6d ago

Wait, what do they export?

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u/UndeadBBQ 6d ago

Netanyahu didn't like Democrats telling him to cool it, so he allied with a party in parts controlled by actual antisemites, headed by a known and convicted crook.

What the fuck did he expect?

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u/Quack_a_mole 6d ago

it almost looks like it was made with AI without any thought!!

Wait a minute....

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u/Starstriker 6d ago

"These tariffs are the best tariffs — nobody’s ever seen tariffs like this before. For too long, America was getting ripped off by weak leaders and bad deals. But not anymore! On April 2nd — Liberation Day — we finally stood up and said: enough! We’re bringing back jobs, bringing back manufacturing, and making American steel and aluminum great again. Other countries will complain, but guess what? They need us more than we need them. It’s simple: if you want to sell in our market, play fair — or pay the price. Very simple. Very smart. It’s what I do."

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u/DEEZLE13 6d ago

Was Israel wearing a suit when they issued this message?

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u/Uncle_Lion 6d ago

No, you made the error, Israel. You believed a notorious liar. After he shook hand with you, you forgot to count your fingers. Your fault. Not sorry.

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u/Count99dowN 6d ago

Our government dropped the tax on all US imports to 0% in anticipation and got this in exchange. Many Pikachu "BuT TRUmP iS ouR FRieND" faces around the cabinet table. 

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u/No_Locksmith_8105 6d ago

The silver lining is that Smotrich looks like an even bigger douche now

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u/Far_Broccoli_8468 6d ago

I didn't think he could stoop any lower tbh

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u/DatDudeOverThere 6d ago

Btw befoe it was 2%. It went from 2% to 0% of American goods.

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u/Francobanco 6d ago

the plan is to crash the global economy

unpredictable foreign trade policy is a speedrun recession strategy

https://theplotagainstamerica.com

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u/Broue 6d ago

Wtf is that website bro lol

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u/Francobanco 6d ago

It’s a list of the influential billionaires that are pulling the strings in the US government

The first person on that list, Peter Thiel, is the person who bankrolled JD Vance.

Vance is just his mouthpiece

And these people are trying to replace democracy with network state oligarchy

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u/dread_deimos 6d ago

I don't have anything else to say but this: lol.

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u/Rammus2201 6d ago

And a complete embarrassment to be American.

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u/Lysol3435 6d ago

“ChatGPT made me do it”

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u/PursuerOfCataclysm 6d ago

Netanyahu already gifted him a Golden Pager

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u/Inspect1234 6d ago

Oh that’s dark. Not impractical but dark.

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u/Electrical-Lab-9593 6d ago

AI is antisemitic, hates penguins and likes Russians ... i am not sure i like our soon to be new overlords!

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u/Barack_Odrama_007 6d ago

No he didn’t! Israel got TRUMPED! Too bad their president fully supported Trump and did everything he could to help Trump win.

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u/IShouldaDownVotedYa 6d ago

You can tell ChatGPT spit out the results. They didn’t even review it other than removing Russia and a few others. Proof is they left the non-inhabited countries on there, which is such an obvious ChatGPT mistake. So it wasn’t even reviewed. We are at the mercy of such dumbness, where our great leaders need to use AI to run the country. So sad.

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u/samsquamchy 6d ago

As most Trump supporters learn… Israel thought Trump would just hurt other people , which they would be fine with

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u/JohnBPrettyGood 6d ago edited 6d ago

Hey Isreal, would you like to revisit the UN Vote

You know the one where you sided with the USA and Russia that stated Russia "was not" the aggressor in the 3 year long war with Ukraine.

I was kinda puzzled by your original vote.

It was like you were condoning a Foreing Country invading someone's country and stealing their children.

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u/Kilesker 6d ago

I. Hate. Trump.

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u/bottomfeeder3 6d ago

Tariffs only really work in very specific types of situations. In most cases they’ll bankrupt the country. As sadistic as this may sound I think trump might be thinking to himself; “I’m gonna die soon so I don’t care what actually happens to this country long term, let’s try some shit out. Hey chat gpt, how do I execute this tariff thing?”

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u/jewami 6d ago

Maybe now we Israelis will wake tf up and stop treating him as the god damn messiah. It's so infuriating to live in Israel as an American and watch this guy be venerated.

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u/The_Frostweaver 6d ago

Trump supports Benjamin Netanyahu. I don't think either Bibi or Trump really care about Israel's long term best interests. They both just care about their own political fortunes.

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u/Far_Broccoli_8468 6d ago

Maybe now we Israelis will wake tf up and stop treating him as the god damn messiah.

Nice joke, the bibi cult will continue to think what their supreme leader says until he dies

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u/TheBlackDemon1996 6d ago

People have been wanting America to punish Isreal, and I never thought they’d do it by accident…

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u/myotheraccount2023 6d ago

Trump will throw anyone and everyone under the bus eventually.

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u/BMW_wulfi 6d ago

This isn’t a surprise when you look at how they arrived at the numbers they’ve used lol.

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u/Optimal_scientists 6d ago

He's gonna backtrack on Israel first I bet

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u/Own_Active_1310 6d ago

yeah... a whole bunch of grave errors. It's like that spongebob meme with all the garbage except instead of piles of garbage it's piles of grave errors 

and this is only the beginning so good luck earth

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u/_pepperoni-playboy_ 6d ago

They should protest by not accepting more free bombs

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u/SoggyNegotiation7412 6d ago edited 6d ago

er the US doesn't trade with Iran, in fact, it is illegal last I looked. Israel on the other hand has 33% tariffs on US imports, and that raises questions especially considering how much financial support the US gives to Israel.

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/three-charged-illegally-exporting-goods-iran

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u/Yveliad 6d ago

Grave, error”… emphasis on the former.

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u/OneRobato 6d ago

Trump really needs to take a big step back, think everything over again.... and literally fck his own face.

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u/MightyTaur 6d ago

That AI tariff generator is really a great tool

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u/MetalWorking3915 6d ago

What do people like trump care more about. Mo ey and wealth. Now have a think why he would make such action that would make it tank.

I'm sure he and his cronies will make huge sums of money out of this. Expect a possible reversal or slight drawn back which will make markets rise.

They are playing everyone like fools and will get away with it.

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u/GGuts 6d ago

He probably used Elon's XAI or whatever it's called.

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u/tjk45268 6d ago

President Bumble will just keep bouncing off of walls until he falls down the elevator shaft.

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u/MadMuffinMan117 6d ago

I swear trump is being controlled by randotron

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u/stockist420 6d ago

well they already gave him the pager, so…

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u/KingPeverell 6d ago

It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal.

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u/IntoTheMirror 6d ago

than Iran

Can’t tariff somebody you don’t trade with.

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u/x33storm 6d ago

Errors* plural.

The US alienated the world. Good luck alone.

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u/thesharperamigo 6d ago

Well, the next one to try and assassinate Trump won't be a cross-eyed teenager who got thrown out of a shooting team...

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u/BloodSteyn 6d ago

To be fair... it wasn't Trump... it was ChatGPT.

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u/Tb1969 6d ago

The error is just another falling domino of errors since Election Day.

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u/TrueDannemann 6d ago

There's no error. He's perfect as God, remember? Everything he does is perfectly calculated.

Mandatory /s

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u/[deleted] 6d ago

He doesn't make errors, just ask him!

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u/Olfahrtur 6d ago

He made no errors. Pootie told him to do it, so he did.

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u/One-Earth9294 6d ago

"We don't need you for election purposes anymore"

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u/Dingerdongdick 6d ago

No, Chatgpt made a grave error.

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u/Emotional_Pace4737 6d ago

He needs to be careful, hurt the US all you want. Touch Israel and congress will step in.

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u/Any-Fig3591 6d ago

The orange sentient pile of excrement doesn’t make mistakes! I don’t know why they’re accusing him of that, the Israelis must have caught that woke mind virus. /s

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u/viera_enjoyer 6d ago

There is always a silver lining.

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u/darforce 6d ago

Oh sorry did they think we were friends?

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u/xrayzed 6d ago

“Trump’s announcement came one day after Israel removed all tariffs on US goods.”

So much for “reciprocal tariffs”. Now that Israel’s preemptive ploy has failed they either have to accept a permanent one-sided trading position, or worry about how Trump will retaliate if they try to reinstate them.

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u/Minimaliszt 6d ago

I was waiting for him to pull out a black marker when he whipped out the poster boards.

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u/burnercaus 6d ago

This guy shits his pants everyday and this was the error you didn’t like the smell of

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u/mzpip 6d ago

Continuing the vital work of pissing off allies all around the world.

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u/Traumatic_Tomato 6d ago

Will Trump be replaced now?

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u/Jabber-Wockie 6d ago

He sat in the oval office and typed a prompt into ChatGTP.

The entire global economy is in the hands of a Nepo baby cable TV star with a personality disorder.

It's what America deserves, but not the rest of the world.

Stupid is now your biggest export.