r/MurderedByWords 1d ago

Sounds about right.

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u/embiors 1d ago

It will never cease to amaze me how stupid people are. How in the everliving goddamn fuck could a tex on imports ever lower prices?

If you want to have domestic products you'll need to end outsourcing and do industrial policy. These things don't spring up over night and this just proves that Trump has no fucking clue about business, economy or trade. He's running this like a mob boss and is just trying to force countries to bend the knee and kiss the ring so that he'll make the tariff go away. He will destroy the US economy to give himself an ego boost.

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u/TokingMessiah 1d ago

Correction… Trump is trying to act like a mobster but he doesn’t even know how to do that.

Turns out the saying was true, because his supporters buy everything he says:

Trump is a dumb man’s idea of a smart man, a poor man’s idea of a rich man, and a weak man’s idea of a strong man.