He is dumb on many subjects, and that's pretty obvious listening to him speak about almost anything. He just pulls BS out of his ass half the time trying to sound smart. He is ignorant when it comes to science, geography, history, vocabulary and reading. He probably has the literacy of a 3rd or 4th grader. I never said he was dumb when it comes to manipulating others, grifting others, or getting others onboard in his mind games and power quest. That's his skill unfortunately. That and lying compulsively. He's a master at that. It's sad that he has so many people giving him their blessing and loyalty. He will rip them off in a heartbeat, and stab them in the back the second they say no to him, in his greedy quest to make himself a King.
Says the guy who has no ****ing clue....come on man, if you are going to call people out to make a point, make the ****ing point. DD
I have a suggestion for this administration. Make universal tariff 2000%, guaranteed to stop all imports (100%) into this country. We will make everything in this country again, US will be heaven on earth! Go MAGA!
Trump isn't stupid and the people around him are a mixture of very bright and self-serving loyalists. Donald Trump has an exceptional understand of people at a very base level and how to manipulate that for his own uses. This isn't some guy that has blindly stumbled into being President twice and having control of the government at a level that hasn't existed in almost 90 years.
On Thursday—one day after President Donald Trump’s self-branded "Liberation Day"—900 auto workers in Michigan and Indiana were “liberated” from their jobs, thanks to Trump’s new tariffs. Stellantis NV, which manufactures Ram trucks and Jeeps, announced on Thursday that 900 U.S. workers across five facilities were being temporarily laid off, directly citing Trump’s 25% tariffs on imported cars as the cause. "With the new automotive sector tariffs now in effect, it will take our collective resilience and discipline to push through this challenging time. But we will quickly adapt to these policy changes and will protect our company, maintain our competitive edge and continue delivering great products to our customers,” Antonio Filosa, chief operating officer of Stellantis North America, said.
Trump is not stupid, he is very smart and have a great understanding of human nature, as for his supports, i won't comment.
Do you know why you're mad? Or are you just blindly following your tribe? What is it exactly about tariffs and bringing well paying, manufacturing jobs to America bothers you? Why do feel obliged to prop up the world's economy at your own expense? Are you opposed to buying less cheap stuff you don't need for quality? We know you don't like Trump's personality. And we also don't care. So as an adult, from a policy perspective, why don't you think America has given leverage to international countries at their own expense?
Trump is an idiot. Let's use a little game theory are companies going to build in America or wait a few years for the government to change. He is good at being a conman and we have country of idiots voting against their own self interests.
We live in a simulation, and it's half baked Trump’s new tariff math looks a lot like ChatGPT’s A number of X users have realized that if you ask ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, or Grok for an “easy” way to solve trade deficits and put the US on “an even playing field”, they’ll give you a version of this “deficit divided by exports” formula with remarkable consistency. The Verge tested this with the phrasing used in those posts, as well as a question based more closely on the government’s language, asking chatbots for “an easy way for the US to calculate tariffs that should be imposed on other countries to balance bilateral trade deficits between the US and each of its trading partners, with the goal of driving bilateral trade deficits to zero.” All four platforms gave us the same fundamental suggestion. There is some variation. Grok and Claude specifically suggested halving the tariff figure to generate what Grok calls a “reasonable” result, much like Trump’s “discount” idea. Ask for a 10 percent baseline tariff and the systems also disagree on whether that should be added to the total tariff rate or not. But answers from across the four chatbots have more similarities than differences. The bots caution with varying levels of seriousness that there are tradeoffs and complications. Gemini, the most strident of them, will give you a page full of explanations as to why this oversimplified approach could backfire — “while this calculation offers a seemingly straightforward way to target bilateral trade deficits, the real-world economic implications are far more complex and could lead to substantial negative consequences,” it warns, adding that “many economists argue that tariffs are not an effective tool for balancing trade deficits.” We don’t know that Trump’s team turned to an AI tool to generate global trade policy on the fly. Since chatbots are regurgitating information from training data, it’s also not clear how they arrived at this particular formula. But regardless of how the tariffs were devised, the world will be watching to see if they come into effect starting April 5th — and, if they’re implemented, what the Trump team’s back-of-the-napkin math will do to global trade.
You might consider the Trump meme coin. Seriously. Other corrupt dictators will end up buying huge shares of the meme coin, and then showing the receipt to Trump to get him to lift tariffs on their country. In exchange for them appointing a Fentanyl Czar, or some other token concession. So look for the price to go up in the coming weeks / months. Of course, it's a legal Swiss bank account for Trump, that foreign bad actors can anonymously contribute to. https://www.coinbase.com/price/official-trump
Trump is not an idiot but what he does is idiotic. He blinded by his ego and is stubborn in his thought process. He has skills and intelligence when it comes to understanding and manipulating people. The problem with Trump he sticks to his guns no matter what. He finds it as a weakness no matter if he is right or wrong.
Who said I was mad? Are you mad because I said Trump is dumb, except when it comes to cheating, grifting, lying, and manipulating folks? What tribe? I don't wear political hats and slap bumper stickers on my car, or wear shirts with a politician on them. I think for myself, unlike people in cults. I learned after voting for Trump the first time to never trust that lying pig again. I'm all for manufacturing in America. That was part of Biden's infrastructure bill as well. I'm not against tariffs for some situations, but I think what Trump is doing across the world is not only reckless, but dangerous. You can disagree. That's fine. I'm in the majority of those who disapprove. I think we need to worry about our own economy, our most vulnerable, and tax cuts for the top 1%, tariff wars, and gutting agencies who provide aid, research, healthcare, and more isn't my idea of priorities. The billionaires love it though. Trickle down economics doesn't work. That's been proven for decades. That's an interesting way to put it. Unlike die-hard party voters I vote for the person I trust most to lead us in the right direction. I've voted Republican and Democrat. I didn't like Trump's personality the first time I voted for him, but it wasn't until he broke any trust I had in him that I knew I made a mistake. The reason I don't approve of him since then is much different. One trait I will never approve in a leader is pathological lying. That's not a personality trait I take lightly. It's a sickness. I don't care if you don't care. Your opinion doesn't change the facts. Let me ask you this. As an adult, why do you trust a pathological lying con who is as immature as a child, and is so hellbent on hate and revenge? How do you feel about a US President turning against our Western allies, and siding up more to countries led by Dictators and Authoritarians who commit crimes against humanity? I'm against both.
Bcz they're upset we have a braindead President who you losers claimed would make all of us rich. You literally claimed Trump would be amazing for the economy lol nd now we're all losing our 401ks. Braindead
Man, that's a lot of Republicans slamming tariffs. What happened to standing for your beliefs? Integrity and courage mean more than butt kissing and being spineless politicians.
https://time.com/7274651/why-economists-are-horrified-by-trump-tariff-math/ Before the Trump Administration confirmed this method, prominent economist James Surowiecki received attention for reverse-engineering the explanation of the tariff pricing on X. “Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us,” the former financial columnist for the New Yorker posted on X. “What extraordinary nonsense this is.” The Office of the United States Trade Representative confirmed Trump’s tariff math in an explainer, stating: “Reciprocal tariffs are calculated as the tariff rate necessary to balance bilateral trade deficits between the U.S. and each of our trading partners….To conceptualize reciprocal tariffs, the tariff rates that would drive bilateral trade deficits to zero were computed.” Though the explanation uses Greek letters and formulas, Politico notes that it is essentially the same formula that Surowiecki posted. Felix Tintelnot, associate professor of economics at Duke University, sees major problems with this method of calculation—notably that the trade deficit is “normal” and “can change.” “Let's say the trade deficit in Vietnam shrinks over the next year. Well, then the tariff rate also should change. But now market participants need to forecast how much the trade deficit with individual countries will change,” Tintelnot says. “And that’s not straightforward, because we are changing so many tariffs at the same time, and ultimately, the aggregate trade deficit of the U.S. is largely determined by other macro decisions, like aggregate savings and aggregate investment, that have nothing to do with tariff rates.” He also points out how for certain countries, it does not matter whether they actually have tariffs on the U.S. Israel eliminated tariffs on U.S. goods on April 1, in preparation for Trump’s tariffs, but were still hit hard by a 17% tariff in the April 2 announcement. “The fact that countries that charge zero tariffs on the U.S. have been hit with tariffs illustrates that these are not reciprocal tariffs in their true meaning,” Tintelnot says. “It is perfectly normal in an integrated global economy for a bilateral trade deficit to exist. A little introspection helps: You have a bilateral trade deficit with your grocery store, but a bilateral trade surplus with your employer. Why would you put a tariff on your local grocery store?” Brian Bethune, professor of economics at Boston College, argues that the Trump Administration should have never calculated these tariffs for countries with such vastly different economic standings and relationships to the U.S. while utilizing the same formula. “Treating all of the small developing countries the same way as you're treating the European Union… that seems to be outrageous,” Bethune says. “Some of these countries with relatively small and more fragile economies may have somewhat of a different approach to trade. This is the problem when you lump them all together.”
