r/news • u/johnk317 • 1d ago

China to impose 34% retaliatory tariff on all goods imported from the U.S.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/04/china-to-impose-34percent-retaliatory-tariff-on-all-goods-imported-from-the-us.html?__source=iosappshare%7Ccom.apple.UIKit.activity.CopyToPasteboard
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u/yayita2500 1d ago

What DT has done will be chronicled in history books not only for how he manipulated data to serve his interests, but also for how he influenced collective minds through falsehoods, expecting other political actors to fall into his trap. Fortunately, most of the world is no longer willing to dance to his tune or validate his tactics.

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u/redvelvetcake42 1d ago

Fortunately, most of the world is no longer willing to dance to his tune or validate his tactics.

He united China and Japan economically for fucks sake. They created a coalition to retaliate against Trump.

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u/muricabrb 1d ago

And somehow he will find a way to take credit for that lmao.

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u/UserIsOptional 1d ago

Give him a Nobel Prize for uniting China, Japan, and South Korea. Squashing centuries of beef to form a trade coalition is legendary hubris by Trump

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u/mcgee300 1d ago

Ffs, this isn't even a joke haha he will actually do this, and MAGA will think he's great for it

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u/Fritja 1d ago

That is just the best news of the year!

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u/blastradii 1d ago

speaking of Japan and Korea. How come they didn’t come out together on these retaliatory tariffs?

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u/Seagoingnote 1d ago

And South Korea I believe

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u/Berkut22 1d ago

And South Korea.

Those 3 hate each other.

At this rate, there might be peace in the middle each for the first time in 3000 years.

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u/SuperSocialMan 1d ago

Holy shit, that's actually impressive.

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u/Aazadan 7h ago

Japan, China, AND South Korea.

This is only one step away from uniting Pakistan and India or Israel and Palestine.

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u/dreadpiratewombat 1d ago

He will go down in history but not in the way he wants. He’s going to be the “Emperor Nero” for the next century.  

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u/KanyeNeweyWest 1d ago edited 1d ago

Don’t forget the near entirety of the Republican Party that enabled him at every step since he won the primaries in 2016 are also going to go down in history as corrupt, incompetent cowards who sold out their country. Trump didn’t do this himself, and those voters and politicians who have propped up his legitimacy will continue being around for decades. I hope there is some huge stigma and shame associated with that. Biggest group of spineless hypocrites in the history of US politics.

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u/vorpalrobot 1d ago

That erases the work Mitch McConnell did pre 2016. 2010 onwards was a total mess after the Democrats lost the majority. Every single confirmation was blocked, every law possible blocked... Infamously the supreme court seat was open for almost a year because the Republicans wouldn't confirm anyone on an election year "let the people decide".

As soon as Trump got in they started naming thousands of judges and officials, where a good amount of the problematic MAGA judges came from.

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u/Longing2bme 1d ago

Yep, the republicans built this mess.

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u/bobtheblob6 1d ago

Infamously the supreme court seat was open for almost a year because the Republicans wouldn't confirm anyone on an election year "let the people decide".

And then they ram through ACB's nomination in record time in fucking October in an election year. It's just all so blatantly bad faith

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u/JesusSavesForHalf 20h ago

After the election had started.

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u/bobtheblob6 1d ago

Infamously the supreme court seat was open for almost a year because the Republicans wouldn't confirm anyone on an election year "let the people decide".

And then they ram through ACB's nomination in record time in fucking October in an election year. It's just all so blatantly bad faith

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u/drtropo 1d ago

It all started when America elected a black man. It broke them.

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u/WeAreDoomed035 1d ago

It started with Reagan.

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u/vorpalrobot 1d ago

A lot of Trump's immunity comes from the Nixon treatment

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u/drtropo 1d ago

Yeah, immediately after posting I was thinking "well acktually" you can go back to Gingrich, but then you cant forget Reagan... etc.

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u/vinny_da_pooh 1d ago

Finding a MAGA hat in your grandparents attic will be like finding a nazi memorabilia in 50 years.

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u/AsstacularSpiderman 1d ago

Starting to get a bunch of nieces and nephews and I can already tell this is going to be a bitch to explain to them lol.

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u/picklerick8879 1d ago

Exactly. A relic of shame — proof someone either got conned or co-signed the con. Future generations will whisper, “They actually wore this?” the same way we do about swastika armbands.

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u/jackiemelon 1d ago

Aussie here - in a bizarre way this is kind of why a part of me wants a MAGA hat. Not to wear, but it's history... Just the bad kind

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u/Bobby837 1d ago

Thing is, it gets too bad for them they'll just "rename" or relocate. Like Southern Dems did after the Civil War.

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u/kandoras 1d ago

Or they'll say that was MAGA and not Republicans. Or just pretend that they never really supported him at all.

Sort of like how it became impossible for years after the Bush administration to find anyone who would admit to having voted for him.

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u/Streamjumper 1d ago

Fortunately we have the internet, where many of them have been very loud and open about their support. With plenty of pictures of them and their mandatory 101 pieces of Trump flair.

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u/CelerMortis 1d ago

right but the people who can be bothered to care about historical facts aren't the ones getting us into these messes

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u/big_fartz 1d ago

When the fanfare dies and the tide turns, I suspect we will find that no one voted for him and everyone's confused how it happened. Because no one will want to have accountability for what they did. The only fortunate part is with social media what it is today that you'll never be able to scrub all the evidence of who you were then when you voted for this.

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u/Pegasus7915 1d ago

Lucky Lt. Aldo Raine has a fix for that.

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u/picklerick8879 1d ago

Damn right. “I think this just might be my masterpiece.” Carve the truth so deep they can’t hide from it, rebrand it, or scrub it clean.

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u/Slut_for_Bacon 1d ago

They can go to Russia since they like that style of government so much.

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u/apk5005 1d ago

More likely they’ll bring Russia here.

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u/Disgustipated2 1d ago

I mean, they already did

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u/Bladelink 1d ago

Why is it always the shittiest countries on Earth trying to spread their "greatness"? FML.

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u/avaacado_toast 1d ago

Let's also not forget the Supreme Court he built.

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u/urlach3r 1d ago

Hitler's willing executioners, meet Trump's idiotic enablers.

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u/Specialist_Brain841 1d ago

wonder what’s in those RNC emails that were never released…

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u/picklerick8879 1d ago

100%. Trump was the symptom — the GOP was the disease that chose power over principle, again and again. They didn’t just look the other way. They clapped. They cheered. They cashed in. History won’t forget who held the match while pretending their hands were clean.

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u/Qeltar_ 1d ago

Gotta keep reminding everyone: The Republican Party could put a stop to all of this within a week. They like what he is doing.

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u/Rugged_Turtle 1d ago

I unfortunately still think this is wishful thinking... we went an entire term of other shitty shenanigans that ended literally in an attempted coup and we still ended up re-electing him. There's not going to be any downfall of the Republican party

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u/potatoears 1d ago

the party needs to burn with him

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u/Longing2bme 1d ago

This. The republicans could have stopped him. They still could. All they have to do is join the democrats on bills that say no to this BS and do it by giving a veto proof majority. Then help remove this idiot.

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u/DominosFan4Life69 1d ago

I mean how they'll be remembered in history as all well and good for the people that are going to be studying history. 

But for us living through it? I mean you know we could do a little bit more than just talk about how things are going to be perceived. 

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u/avcloudy 1d ago

There's no nice way to say it, they're the party of opposing social progress on every front, and they have been for over 90 years. They've been stealing elections for at least 25 years, and have been gerrymandering for longer than that. They're the party of celebrating slavers and war criminals fighting for the right to enslave people.

Republicans should already have been ashamed, and they aren't, because shameless self-interest is seen as a rational and desirable trait. People use self-interest as a way to excuse other bad deeds; it's somehow less wrong to do selfish and bad things for money than to do it for free.

Trump isn't the problem, Trump is a symptom, and it's going to keep happening, because it has already been happening longer than most of us have been alive, because conservative voters want it to be like this.

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u/Testiculese 1d ago

also going to go down in history as corrupt, incompetent cowards who sold out their country.

Again. Half of Reagan's cabinet were indicted on something. Half of Bush I, half or all of Bush II...every Republican reign ends with scandals, many sexual, court and prison time, and a shit economy.

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u/Aazadan 7h ago

People will probably forget Congress, but they're going to remember SCOTUS. This is going to go down in history as the worst SCOTUS, beating out times like the Taney court. It is so bad that we are likely to see new countries use our SCOTUS as a model of specifically what not to do while forming their new governments.

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u/Faiakishi 1d ago

What does he care? He'll be dead.

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u/snoogins355 1d ago

The Emperor wears no clothes

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u/whatiseveneverything 1d ago

He does wear diapers though.

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u/Don_Tiny 1d ago

Don't say that, I'm trying to eat breakfast here ... ye gods, talk about instant bulimia ...

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u/CDHmajora 1d ago

Just imagine, being completely ridiculed and taken the piss out of by every school student and history graduate for the next millennium at least.

Trump is honestly an icon. The entire WORLD is going to be laughing at how much of a fuck up he is for generations.

His legacy will be a joke. Nobody in 20 years will think of him as anything more than a failed circus act who got propped up to success by a racist cult of nepo-babies. If he was smart enough to comprehend that, he’d probably be ashamed.

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u/FLsurveyor561 1d ago

Everyone said that years ago and then we made him president again.

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u/Cute-Percentage-6660 1d ago

Didnt nero actually try to help the citizenry unlike trump?

Like he was known for spending on the poorer parts of rome or something,. but the nobility hated him

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u/PasswordIsDongers 1d ago

He wants attention, though.

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u/sn0r 1d ago

Caligula is closer, I think. He started a war against the sea after all, and these tariffs and the reasoning behind them are that level of delusional.

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u/SomeDEGuy 1d ago

Honestly, I'd take Nero. At least the empire survived after some turmoil.

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u/picklerick8879 1d ago

Absolutely. He wanted Mount Rushmore — he’s getting a cautionary tale. The modern Nero, fiddling with his phone while everything burns, tweeting delusion into disaster.

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u/Sopel97 1d ago

One thing I want to emphasize, given that you refer to him as an "emperor", is that he was democratically elected. He's not the only person to blame, ~70% of the US is. I want this to be remembered too.

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u/UCLA_FB_SUCKS 1d ago

Or orange Caligula

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u/Merlord 1d ago

He's more of a King Charles I. These tariffs are Ship Money.

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u/fdesouche 1d ago

Generalissimo Franco

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u/Peach-Striking 1d ago

He doesn't care as long as he's being talked about. He just wants to be relevant no matter the means

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u/nansams 1d ago

I think he just wants to be in the history books,doesn't matter how when his followers think he's the second coming of Jesus.

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u/Herpinheim 1d ago

I think he’s going to be more like the post Napoleon bourbons as far as opinions go

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u/jleonardbc 1d ago

A malignant narcissist like Trump doesn't mind being hated. He just wants to be important.

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u/janethefish 1d ago

Nero fiddled while Rome burned.

Trump set the fire.

Not the same.

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u/espresso_martini__ 1d ago

I'll give him credit for knowing how gullible and stupid his followers are. He even told them he loves the uneducated and they wore diapers and trash bags.

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u/discussatron 1d ago

He told them, "I don't care about you, I just want your vote," and they cheered and voted for him.

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u/3d_blunder 1d ago

Buh buh buh, he's WHITE, and upsets the glasses-wearing class (ie, the smart people).

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u/discussatron 1d ago

Destroying the country to troll the libs. I fully expect one of them to ask me, "TrIgGeReD?" as we're herded into the cattle cars.

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u/Streamjumper 1d ago

Given that they grew out of a movement that proudly said they'd been teabagged, called themselves teabaggers, and stapled Liptons to their fucking hats; the diapers, trashbags, and ear-maxipads weren't surprising at all.

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u/SargentoPepper 1d ago

Didn’t he say in the 80s that Republicans were dumb and that they believe everything?

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u/TargetDecent9694 1d ago

He’s been lying for the past 10 years at least, why would he need to change anything now? This is just status quo.

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u/Strung_Out_Advocate 1d ago

10? I'm in the NY/NJ metro area and believe me through the 80's and 90's he was literally the dictionary definition of lying scumbag. Perfectly fit for that era of DIRTY NY. It was no secret then which is why his cult following today is really more baffling than most people think it is. And that's obviously saying a lot. He was known for doing "business" while either not paying or more often than not suing the people he did business with. I mean, scumbag really is the only descriptor of this clown.

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u/joshbudde 1d ago

I wish the rest of the country would have looked at how much..everyone in NYC hated his guts and learned a lesson from them. But no, like touching the stove, we just had to learn for ourselves

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u/doegred 1d ago

like touching the stove, we just had to learn for ourselves

And then eight years later you put your hands all over that stove again.

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u/Frankie6Strings 1d ago

I think we may have climbed into the stove this time.

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u/Daxx22 1d ago

Millions never stopped giving the stove a handy, it's not like it was a landslide rebuke when Biden was elected.

2016 was stupid, but fine people are stupid, I could treat it as a blip.

2020 millions more still voted for this bullshit, but hey ultimately failed so ok.

2024? Americans, you just literally voted to murder your country. There is no coming back from this, even if "America" survives as a whole country you'll face decades of rebuilding relationships if even possible.

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u/bubblegumdrops 1d ago

I’m not from NY and I can clearly recall him being a weirdo and a joke when I was a kid (90s-00s). I still can’t believe so many  people think he’s brilliant.

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u/joshbudde 1d ago

He was in Playboy movies! What a world we live in

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u/avaacado_toast 1d ago

Mark Burnett made this Frankenstein monster. He is most responsible for the way America looks at Trump.

I grew up on Brookly in the 80s, have always seen him as a clown and attention whore.

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u/Streamjumper 1d ago

People from the Northeast in general (Connecticut here, and many of us understand Trump's history quite well) have been trying to explain to people exactly what he is, but to no avail.

I think it speaks volumes that the dude was no stranger to stiffing the fuck out of contractors in every trade, but for some reason he has a cult following among them even here.

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u/Nu-Hir 1d ago

That's the problem. They did. They knew everyone in NYC hated his guts. They also know that everyone in NYC is liberal scum, so if they hate him, that must mean he's doing something right. The whole, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend".

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u/CoeurdAssassin 1d ago

Always funny when people get surprised about him being a conman. Like dude was literally known as some scumbag, racist realtor who stiffed everybody before he was on celebrity apprentice. He was publicly known as a POS long long before he ran for president.

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u/Streamjumper 1d ago

Many of them are the kind of sycophants that cluster around any bully. The kind of fuck that thinks that being the chief minion of some "strong guy" makes them strong by some weird transitive property.

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u/MajorNoodles 1d ago

And yet all of his supporters swear up and down the entire left loved him back then.

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u/TreeOfMadrigal 1d ago

An entire genre of movies/cartoons from the 80s and 90s had villains that were just straight up trump caricatures.  He was the stand in for scummy big business and corruption. 

How on God's green earth did he become a supposed champion of the little guy. I will never understand.

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u/Faiakishi 1d ago

SNL was literally satirizing him back then. He was a joke. Absolutely no one liked him until he inexplicably grew a cult following. It's some witchcraft shit.

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u/Sunna420 1d ago

Yeah, I hated the guy back in the 80's and 90's and hate him even more now. I was working at a casino that tried to hire as many of the displaced and screwed over employess from orange shithead's bankrupt casinos. Some of them never got paychecks. It was disgusting. I did my best to make those folks sent to my department were well cared for.

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u/OrneryLlama 1d ago

For real, man's been alive since the 40s and been a scumbag ever since he came out of that crusted womb. How everyone seemed to forget that and view him as some kind of icon is beyond me. I suppose the reality is that people are really that vile and gravitate toward it.

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u/Streamjumper 1d ago

I know dudes in the trades whose companies got directly or indirectly fucked by Trump over the last 30-40 years, and they still think he's for them.

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u/SPAMmachin3 1d ago

Yep, I have never understood how this guy managed to convince the poor and working class that he's for them. You don't even need to deep dive into research to find it.

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u/kakamouth78 1d ago

I'm from the same area and remember how widespread that sentiment was. Hearing people bitch about how he screwed the trades unions for decades and others saying "that's what you get for working with Trump." Then going to Atlantic City for a visit and seeing MAGA hats on locals.

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u/danklord_69 1d ago

He will be the next Hoover

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u/copperwatt 1d ago

I just found out he didn't even build the dam.

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u/Kedrico 1d ago

Is this a god dam?

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u/calling-all-comas 1d ago

Can't wait to live in a "Trump town", our new "Hooverville". Of course my MAGA relatives will still tell me that "Trump towns" are amazing and that America is truly great again.

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u/Pippihippy 1d ago

Not trump town.. mar-a-lagos

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u/Oddlyinefficient 1d ago

Hoover at least did some good before he was President. Trump has always been a piece of shit.

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u/Redducer 1d ago

I don’t think Hoover had the same morals, or that the average Hoover voter was generally a moron . Trump may eventually go but what about the redneck states?

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u/Zeppelanoid 1d ago

Much like a hoover, he sucks

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u/Frnklfrwsr 21h ago

No, Hoover made some poor decisions but generally acted with integrity and with the best interest of the country in mind. He was an educated man who put the country first, but facing an unprecedented economic crisis made the wrong decisions.

Never before in the last 100 years have I seen someone in this office who straight up doesn’t give a single flying shit about the country and the people in it. Many were flawed, some were very flawed, but none were as blatantly irredeemable as this.

NOTHING he has done has been with the intent of helping Americans. None of it. Not a single thing. He didn’t mean well and failed. He wanted to cause damage. He wanted to cause pain. He wanted to cause chaos. He wanted to break things. And he wanted to steal everything that isn’t nailed down while in power.

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u/JCPLee 1d ago

The American people will go down in history for twice electing an immoral unethical criminal idiot.

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u/SPAMmachin3 1d ago

I hate that I'm lumped in with them as a person that voted against him every single time because I knew he was a moron before he got into politics.

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u/whatiseveneverything 1d ago

And all he had to do was tell them he'll build a wall against Mexico. Geez!

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u/El_Dud3r1n0 1d ago

3 times if you count W, which you should.

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

Please start calling it what it is and not sugarcoating it. It’s LIES, out right lies, not falsehoods.

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u/Petrihified 1d ago

That’s not sugarcoated, falsehood is a synonym for lying, as well as delusion, deception and deceit.

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u/3-3-2019 1d ago

We better hope the Democrats can get their shit together because it's no lie that history is written by the victors.

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u/Toimaker 1d ago edited 1d ago

The American voter needs to get their shit together. This was entirely avoidable if more voted against him.

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u/thoms689 1d ago

Yeah, could the Democrats do better? Of course, but Americans have to give a fcking shıt as well, the warning signs have been there for years and the warnings have been screamed from the rooftops. Yet either people don't give a shit or are happy to believe Republican lies and now the consequences of the indifference and blind loyalty is here to hit, unfortunately it hits all the people that didn't want and voted against this bs as well.

Wake the fck up already.

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u/XIII_THIRTEEN 1d ago

How history textbooks end up treating things like the Fake Elector plot, Jan 6 in general, the 2020 election fraud lies, Russian collusion... with any luck kids will actually be more educated on Donald Trump than people that actually watched some of these events unfold, just because so many of us watching this shit happen instead choose to believe Trump's lies without a second thought.

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u/wutfacer 1d ago

At this rate the only textbook half the kids will grow up with is a Trump branded Bible

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u/Nu-Hir 1d ago

Good luck. The large majority of textbooks in the US are manufactured in Texas. So if you think those will treat any of those events in an objective, unbiased matter, you're sadly mistaken.

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u/robodrew 1d ago

This is why they are dismantling the Department of Education

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u/Travelerdude 1d ago

Trump will go down in history as a catalyst. This is the tipping point of a new world order. He will not be looked on favorably but from the ashes could rise a new world order that, with a diminished USA, be improved in the long run. Or it could be a post apocalyptic nightmare. In any case, Trump will be know as the one to light the fuse.

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u/Ketzeph 1d ago

Eh if you think a stronger China and Russia bode well for the future I’ve got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.

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u/Don_Tiny 1d ago

Yeah, there's a lot of people in here pushing that idea ... they're as dumb as any MAGA voter ... superficial, reactionary dopes.

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u/Responsible_Tea4587 1d ago

Russis is done with or without Trump. Once Putin dies, it would most probably end up in civil war. I assume the next superpower will be China and if India gets their shit together, it would be a competition between India and China.

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u/Intelligent-Parsley7 1d ago

‘Russia civil war’ is the biggest crackpot take I’ve heard all month. Gotta love the Internet.

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u/Responsible_Tea4587 1d ago

A lot of crackpot takes will come to reality. Global tarrifs based on a formula that a mentally 5 year old came up with for example. We live in a crackpot world.

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u/Streamjumper 1d ago

I've more or less started divorcing my application of common sense to anything that happens in politics these days. So much "it'd never happen" is happening constantly that its the only way to not experience crippling cognitive dissonance.

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u/tevolosteve 1d ago

That would be great if the European Union became the driving force but if it’s china then things won’t be better

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u/Hambone721 1d ago

The modern day Gavrilo Princip

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u/Bobby837 1d ago

Only if the nationalist who have been propping him up fail to maintain control after he's gone. Continue to wreak everything.

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u/TheTesticler 1d ago

Good thing I have other passports because goddamn this dude is making the US look like shit, and hell, I don’t blame other countries for hating us 😬

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u/Kinger15 1d ago

I’m an idiot so everyone’s an idiot right?….right?

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u/lorefolk 1d ago

yeah, assuming fascism doesnt win.

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u/sgrams04 1d ago

History’s most notorious con man. 

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u/FourWordComment 1d ago

Make sure you’re on the right side of history.

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u/Distinct_Mushroom_63 1d ago

why should us other countries fall inline when trump will be gone is 4 years and never coming back or even after the mid terms if Americans come to there senses

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u/TheTangoFox 1d ago

Fool me twice something something shame

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u/fdesouche 1d ago

To them it isn’t not an error, by ideology they want isolationism and maybe some hardcore think-thanks probably autarchy, to get full power, their end-goal is quite close to a régime à la Franco. Isolated, white, repressed minorities, Evangelical-fascist. I won’t even say Christo-nationalist because South-American Catholics are in fact the main target of the mass deportations.

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u/Affectionate_Put_185 1d ago

He is a Russian asset. He is destroying our economy on purpose!

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u/Grim_Rockwell 1d ago

Yep, big daddy CPC bout to fuck a bitch up and show the world who is top dog.

Communism will win.

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u/nonlinear_nyc 1d ago

History is written by the winners. That won’t be America.

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u/ParksidePants 1d ago

Yeah future history books are going to be wild.

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u/Debalic 1d ago

It kinda depends on who ends up writing those history books. They're already re-writing history now.

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u/percocet_20 1d ago

The way things are going the history books will probably say something like "super presdident trump dun gud with his monee choyses all the monee came to America and-- (please put in 5 monee to keep lernin)"

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u/IntermittentCaribu 1d ago

I imagine history books of the future to be a guy with text tattooed all over his body like mad max.

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u/MumrikDK 1d ago

He'll go down as the spearhead of a movement in the US. Not as some crazy individual doing special damage.

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u/picklerick8879 1d ago

He weaponized bullshit like it was policy, turned lying into a political doctrine, and banked on repetition to override reality. Future historians won’t just study him — they’ll dissect how so many people *chose* to believe the con.

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u/Remarkable_Step_6177 1d ago

I call it a stand-together complex, an advancement in propaganda. Interesting stuff really

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u/sea126 1d ago

You assume they are not going to rewrite the history books

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u/The5thElement27 1d ago

 he manipulated data to serve his interests,

*Russia's interests.

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u/Sick_Hyeson 1d ago

"What DT has done will be chronicled in history books"

Probably... let's see if it will be in US history books too.

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u/Spend-Automatic 1d ago

Very true. Unfortunately the majority of Americans these days pay zero attention to history books and get their (dis)information from places like TikTok

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u/smitteh 1d ago

Who dances to ave Maria kid rock

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u/interstitialmusic 1d ago

I just want him to go down for history.

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u/AkuraPiety 1d ago

It’s this generation’s Jonestown, in my opinion. On a grander and worse scale.

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u/castlite 1d ago

The amount of lies this fool has told is undocumentable for the sheer volume.

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u/ilovefacebook 1d ago

I'm waiting for an expose on how the gop cheated in the last 3 elections

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u/Pretz_ 1d ago

The manipulation aspect here is weak at best. History knows the American people went along with this willingly. They're only changing their tune as it blows up in their face.

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u/Babyyougotastew4422 1d ago

This kind of stuff happens all the time in other countries. The thing is nobody expected it to happen to america

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u/j1ggy 1d ago

The way he's manipulated a large portion of the population with constant, blatant lies will be studied for centuries. It's pretty unbelievable, but here we are. You can fake a lot of things, but you can't fake an economy.

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u/EatingTheDogsAndCats 1d ago

“Truth Social” will absolute be studied and compared to propaganda tactics that mimic North Korea. It’s so obvious in its name alone.

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u/OMRockets 1d ago

Good thing the people that voted for him can’t read!

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u/riansar 1d ago

But here is the thing he didnt influence people through falsehoods please lets not make it out to be as if conservatives were somehow misled by trump he said he was going to tariff everyone and thats what he did and people who voted for him knew this would happen

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u/espresso_martini__ 1d ago

He's already going down in the history books as the worst president for his first term. Obviously he thought he could tank his reputation even more.

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u/idi-sha 1d ago

This is America problem. Donald Trump is simply the final stage of all the destructions the USA has committed these past decades. The americans have been ignorant and privileged and exploiting others for too long and now theyre paying the price.

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u/Chubs1224 1d ago

I can't wait for my grandchildren to ignore this important bit in history class.

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u/Bacchus1976 1d ago

What will be studied is how Russia installed an asset at every level of our executive and convinced people to vote for them.

The rapid destruction of America is just the outcome.

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