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<blockquote data-quote="Doublestandards" data-source="post: 6102358" data-attributes="member: 110123">That’s what’s so dumb about this, how it’s being framed and how it’s being facilitatedTrump starts it by issuing huge global tariffs, claiming America is being cheated, and we’re doing reciprocal tariffs from now on. Then you look into it and realize it’s not reciprocal tariffs and he’s actually counting our trade deficitsThe EU just offered him zero tariffs, free trade, and he turned it down because we buy more things from them than they buy from us, and he wants it to be perfectly even, so they also need to buy $350 billion worth of energy from usWhat is the goal? Because he’s also giving contradictory reasons for the tariffs, one day it’s for free trade, the other it’s to permanently implement tariffs to bring manufacturing back home, the next day he’s lowering all the tariffs to 10% and pausing for 90 days. It’s giving everyone and the businesses around the world uncertainty and is terrible leadershipHe’s been in office for 3 months and it seems the entire time he’s been focusing on straining ties with our allies.&nbsp; Threatening Canada, threatening Greenland, stopping help to Ukraine. Then he issues tariffs on practically the whole world… but he doesn’t include Russia.Seems weird</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Doublestandards, post: 6102358, member: 110123"] That’s what’s so dumb about this, how it’s being framed and how it’s being facilitated Trump starts it by issuing huge global tariffs, claiming America is being cheated, and we’re doing reciprocal tariffs from now on. Then you look into it and realize it’s not reciprocal tariffs and he’s actually counting our trade deficits The EU just offered him zero tariffs, free trade, and he turned it down because we buy more things from them than they buy from us, and he wants it to be perfectly even, so they also need to buy $350 billion worth of energy from us What is the goal? Because he’s also giving contradictory reasons for the tariffs, one day it’s for free trade, the other it’s to permanently implement tariffs to bring manufacturing back home, the next day he’s lowering all the tariffs to 10% and pausing for 90 days. It’s giving everyone and the businesses around the world uncertainty and is terrible leadership He’s been in office for 3 months and it seems the entire time he’s been focusing on straining ties with our allies. Threatening Canada, threatening Greenland, stopping help to Ukraine. Then he issues tariffs on practically the whole world… but he doesn’t include Russia. Seems weird [/QUOTE]

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