What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[DGuller]

Meh, this criticism is more silly than the policy.  So what if values happen to cancel out?  Unless one parameter is by definition the inverse of another, omitting the two Greek letters would be the blunder.

[Threviel]

Meh, I tried to find some actual reasoning for this dumb shit, but it's just dumb through and through. Short-sighted idiocy.

Fucking stupid Americans. Dumb fucks.

[crazy canuck]

I looked at the Fox site to see how they are positioning this.  The lead article is about how world leaders are begging Trump to negotiate better terms.

[Razgovory]

Seems hard to negotiate with Trump.  1.  Nobody is sure what Trump actually wants.  2.  He already broke trade agreements he negotiated and signed so why would anyone make an agreement with him?

[Norgy]

16.5 percent for Norway.

I have to hand it to the Labour politician who when confronted with the tariffs replied "Does it apply to eggs?".

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

And American car manufacturing workers are learning quickly what this means for them.  900 workers have been laid off in Indiana in Michigan. They worked in factories supplying parts for Assembly plants in Canada and Mexico and those Assembly plants have been put on pauses of production.

The UAW was one of the big supporters of tariffs.  I guess they'll find a way to spin these layoffs as being the fault of greedy auto industry executives or something.

[Zanza]

And American car manufacturing workers are learning quickly what this means for them.  900 workers have been laid off in Indiana in Michigan. They worked in factories supplying parts for Assembly plants in Canada and Mexico and those Assembly plants have been put on pauses of production.

The UAW was one of the big supporters of tariffs.  I guess they'll find a way to spin these layoffs as being the fault of greedy auto industry executives or something.

Might be the end of Chrysler as a brand. Their only remaining car is made in Canada and will likely become uncompetitive.

[Sheilbh]

A typical Cambodian wage is only about $300 a month. Even with 49% tariffs I'm not sure there is much scope for reshoring to the USA, but t-shirts will be more expensive.

Also unlikely to have much impact on the capacity of Cambodians to afford imports from the US. They're a poor country. They broadly can't afford what the US sells.

But it'll be devastating for some of those economies - I think I've read that a third of Vietnam's exports go to the US and now have a massive tariff. Of course part of that was to some extent US strategy to build relations and alliances with other countries in Asia.

Edit: Although this is a good move - and ultimately the answer to this type of massive executive power has to be an assertive, functioning legislature:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/03/senators-bipartisan-bill-trump-tariffs

"Trump administration attorneys told the court to dismiss the request on multiple grounds, including that Trump's "primacy in foreign affairs" outweighs the interests of Abrego Garcia and his family"

If that's not fascism right there, I don't know what is.

It's sickening. People should be on the streets about it and there should be civil disobedience on anything ICE are involved in.

[Valmy]

It's sickening. People should be on the streets about it and there should be civil disobedience on anything ICE are involved in.

Unfortunately lots of Americans love this stuff. I don't know what to tell you.

[Sheilbh]

I get that, but I think that's the point of civil disobedience. Remove the passive cooperation with ICE and expose/force it to reveal itself. Bluntly, lots of Americans loved segregation too.

[Legbiter]

16.5 percent for Norway.

I have to hand it to the Labour politician who when confronted with the tariffs replied "Does it apply to eggs?".

We got 10% from the Americans on our exports. Probably because we have a trade deficit with the US. 

[Grey Fox]

I think that's why Canada wasn't on the list. With their stupid equation it only comes out at 18% and 18% halved to 10% on Canada isn't even interesting showmanship.

[crazy canuck]

I think that's why Canada wasn't on the list. With their stupid equation it only comes out at 18% and 18% halved to 10% on Canada isn't even interesting showmanship.

No, it is because tariffs were already applied but exempted for goods compliant with our trade agreement.


Same with Mexico.

[crazy canuck]

Rubio asks NATO countries to increase military spending to 5%. Hey buddy read the room.

[crazy canuck]

An article describing the lasting damage the change in US policies are causing to the US and the world.


https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/opinion/trump-tariffs-us-security-stability.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9E4.Ku9H.Kp1iVskQ4-WV&smid=url-share