This time it took Donald Trump literally 72 hours to change his mind and revert again the increase in tariffs because the Europeans were quotation mark “not negotiating”.
Donald’s fundamental problem is that he’s made promises that he’s negotiating with “200 countries” on new tariff agreements his biggest problem of course is that it’s four leading trading partners Have indicated that they are not actually currently negotiating with the “orange one”.
China, Canada, Mexico, Japan, and the European Union account for nearly 90% of all of America’s imports. When all of them indicate that they are not currently in negotiations With the White House, clearly Donald Trump is lying. Not that it really matters because the disciples of Trump believe everything he says without questioning.
However, after saying for nearly a month that he’s about to close another deal, eminently, and then nothing happens. He starts looking like an idiot.
fundamentally, none of this matters. Trump doesn’t actually care about trading. It is completely irrelevant to his reality, but not to his discourse that America has been robbed. He will insist that even Canada has been robbing America and has nothing to offer the United States that it needs. The truth is irrelevant because when your negotiator and chief doesn’t care, then no one else needs to care either it is all for show for entertainment and for his base to keep them happy.
Trump‘s only real desire is to keep his people happy so they continue in, loving him and Adulating. Donald Trump has always been about the performance. He has always been a performer, the substance is irrelevant. The performance is the goal.
So, if the performance is everything, what does Donald Trump want? Adulation and applauses that’s it. By continually changing the conversation, and never getting into the weeds, Donald Trump‘s ensure that issues are only addressed at the surface or complexities never occur.
Suspending tariffs for another 40 days does nothing in reality. No one in his right mind believes that Trading negotiations can occur in 40 days. The truth is the.” Agreement” With the United Kingdom is just a memorandum of understanding, following months of negotiation between the US and United Kingdom.
The truth is, that for A mechanist like Donald Trump tariff are a tool of taxation, other than income tax, or capital gains. Even in his small mind, Donald Trump knows that a daily change in the economic landscape ensures that no investments can occur. Donald Trump is not looking for a transformative economic landscape, he’s looking for revenues that he believes will be sufficient to overtake or even replace income tax. “ Make the foreigners pay” Is his motto.
The European, the Japanese, the Canadians are all talking to each other and they’ve all probably come to the same conclusion that even having an agreement with the United States right now is pointless because the next morning Donald Trump can change his mind all over again and impose some new tariffs based on some slight or fentanyl.
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