I hope other countries realize that entering into trade agreements with the United States is a meaningless endeavor given that we don’t believe we have any responsibility to abide by agreements that we make anymore. We are an entirely unreliable partner.
Anymore? Native Americans would have a word with you.
Heard it on my morning news program here in Canada. “I’ll do anything. I’ll do anything, sir,” he chuckled. Sounded like he was making fun of an abuse victim. Like that time he mocked the disabled. Filthy predator.
That any media outlet is featuring his latest truth claim in an uncontested headline is wild. Look at the amount of commentary already produced that assumes his version of events is what’s actually happening.
We’ve already seen that the media don’t have anyone’s best interests at heart but the elite. We have to stop expecting them to change.
They’re very obviously not, though. This is some newspeak bullshit.
Well, Finnish “leaders” are discussing one-on-one deals with the US, it’s not exactly taking a strong stance against Trump’s bullying… More like bending the knee to save their own investments
And Keir Starmer practically has Trumps entire dick down his throat with Trumps balls on his face, and that’s before any negotiations.
India is kissing Trump’s arse, unfortunately. They are considering removing tariffs even more than they did before the announcement. Though there’s a UK-India deal floating around as well, and talks with the EU. This might just be anti-China opportunism, though. Apple and Samsung announced that they’re moving their factories to India because of the tariffs.
I mean, orangeboi was and is Modi’s role model. This is completely unsurprising.
I think he personally admires Netanyahu far more, considering how much his party tactics copy Israel but yeah, birds of a feather.
The article is a Trump hallucination.
He’s not wrong that leaders flatter him; but it’s not respect, it’s geopolitical strategy. They’re managing chaos, hedging with China and others, and responding to a weaker US position largely created by Trump himself. This isn’t strength; it’s a soft power collapse that’s opening dangerous doors, mainly for Americans most of all, but likely for everyone else too.
What Trump sees as deference is actually diplomatic triage. World leaders aren’t engaging him because they admire him; leaders are trying to keep the global order from unraveling faster than it already is. The cost of alienating the U.S. is high, but increasingly, so is relying on it. That shift is the real story, and it’s one that leaves America more isolated with each bluster.
At best, world leaders may be trying to salvage their current investments in the US and trade sources in the short term. But they are also immediately starting the process to divest from the US, maybe permanently. He may get a short term gain from a handful of countries, but is tanking us long term as everyone distances themselves from us.
Trade, investments, debts, these things bind countries together and promote better economies the world-wide. The point of Tariffs are to reduce or eliminate these connections to other countries in the effected markets, to isolate and insulate your domestic market from the international market at large. When you put a blanket tariff on all markets on all countries, especially when openly trying to use those as extortion tactics against other countries, you are guaranteeing this isolation. We are well on the way from being isolated from the world, like North Korea, all because of one man without any sense, decency, or limitations. We are fucked.
He’s 78, do you really think he cares? He wants to be in history books, must have hurt a lot that nobody gave him any attention during Biden’s term
He’s going to end up in the History books with roughly the same level of infamy as Nero.
Instead of a fiddle it’ll be a Big Mac
“Oh what a gourmet dies in me.”?
I miss those… what, 2 months(?) that he wasn’t in the news cycle.
Short term burst that fuck the future is the Republican MO.
Then a Democrat will come in and fail to clean up all of the broken shit immediately, and the stupid electorate will swing right again.
It’s a fucking endless circle
He may get a short term gain
He was elected to run the government like a business; this is the CEO signature move.
Like a WWE Superstar suplexing the opponent (his own country) to show dominance? Gotcha
He really has no idea what “diplomacy” means does he
And by saying that he is admitting the true reason hes is doing it, narcissism.
Not that he ever tried to hide it.
I’m sure that’s what his handlers tell him while they’re changing his diaper.
As disgusting as it is, that seems to be exactly what most of the world seems to be doing, trying to get into trump’s good grace and not get fucked by the tariffs.
Well except for China, who seems to have slapped back just as hard.
People have been thinking Trump will let China invade Taiwan. Like, no. Trump is vehemently anti-China from the beginning in any shape or form. So, in that respect, China knows there is no pleasing the orangecrat and therefore doubling down on tariffs will not lose them with anything more. Besides, the tariffs is actually making China and EU come closer together-- as strange as it sounds.
As China boosts its internal consumption and increases standards of living, along with a growing highly educated population, I can see their values very much aligning with the EU. That sounds like a very decent world order…
I’m mostly sure that they’re only doing so as a stop gap. Re-alignment takes time, and we’ve sent a loud and clear message that we don’t want to be anybody’s friend anymore. Even if we get Cyber-Bernie 3000 for president in four years, the damage will still be done, and there will always be the lingering understanding that we may just turn around and directly elect Elon Musk as president (don’t fucking talk to me about constitutionality without telling me you’ve been in a coma for the last year first).
Pragmatism =/= Kissing ass
Its like a cop thinking: wow, people really respect me
No they don’t lol, the moment you’re not looking, they are gonna graffiti ACAB on the police car you’re driving.
They aren’t though
He’s trying to sell his tariffs to the choir, but the choir isn’t listening any more
That is not how you spell kicking.
That’s what a trillion dollar in “defense” grants you, everyone kissing your ass.
But now the military is looking to cut 90k of troops.
they are still in the trillion range even after cuts
hmmm I am increasingly believing how ineffective the USA would be against a real enemy… the USA loves to chicken hawk on third world countries on the other side of the planet… but now trumpf is poking China hard… WWIII is heating up
hmmm I am increasingly believing how ineffective the USA would be against a real enemy… the USA loves to chicken hawk on third world countries on the other side of the planet…
How do you think they chicken hawk people on the other side of the planet? Are you aware of the scale of USA army and what they do?
meaning i’m not sure how well things would go against an anemy that is not fighting with smuggled 25 year old equipment and unable to strike usa territory
I have no idea what point you are trying to make here
These world leaders go to a different school but they totally exist honest
Politicians must always aim to be statesmen and stateswomen… and use language representative of that role.
But they didn’t vote a politician as president this time.
Feel like he mispronounced “kicking”.
