r/wallstreetbets • u/MikeMikeGaming AI bubble survivor • Jan 28 '25

News Trump To Tariff Chips Made In Taiwan, Targeting TSMC

https://au.pcmag.com/computers-electronics/109466/trump-to-tariff-chips-made-in-taiwan-targeting-tsmc

Why don't we kick Nvidia while it's down am I rite?

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u/TPHandsGollum Jan 28 '25

Announce stargate, immediately tariff stargate, wtf

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u/Fast_Garlic_5639 Jan 28 '25

“Nvda has announced it will begin holding a reserve of Trumpcoin as of Feb 1..”

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u/Former-Light4284 Jan 28 '25

Shouldn't this be announced April 1st?

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u/B0BsLawBlog Jan 28 '25

That's the date when it ISNT real.

Over in reality BTC whales are probably "donating" 8-9 figures in crypto (on top of the family coin holding) to the first family, to make sure that 100B 12 figure crypto "reserve" gets through. Got to align the family with the payoff.

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u/Sarges24 Jan 28 '25

that's the date where everyone would think it isn't real, but actually is so no one would know.

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u/jedi21knight Jan 28 '25

Every day is April first now.

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u/Walking72 Jan 28 '25

With trump, every day is fool's Day

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u/Jetblast787 Jan 28 '25

Every day is April 1st now for the next 4 years

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u/DixonDs Jan 28 '25

It will rug by April 1st

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u/agumonkey Jan 28 '25

EO: April is now US Feb

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u/Puzzleheaded-Image-4 Jan 28 '25

So anything JPOW says is now moot, as the dollar will be scrapped for Dumpcoins?

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u/BabyWrinkles Jan 28 '25

I don’t know if this is real.

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u/reluctantusername Jan 28 '25

How sad is it that I googled this to make sure it's definitely not true ... christ.

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u/CapeTownMassive Jan 28 '25

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u/snatchblastersteve Jan 28 '25

Bigly regarded

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u/Naive_Try2696 Jan 28 '25

This needs to be more high

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u/Consistent-Photo-535 Jan 28 '25

I’ll pass it in just one second, need another toke.

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u/TotallyNormalSquid Jan 28 '25

Regardonomics

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u/Okish-Lover Jan 28 '25

Soon: China Restricts Nvidia AI Exports to US

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u/Magjee Jan 28 '25

Trump about to draw dotted lines in the South China Sea like he did with that hurricane map

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u/frommethodtomadness Jan 28 '25

He's a very, very stupid man.

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u/the_amazing_skronus Jan 28 '25

“We want them to come back,” Trump said before slamming the US’s CHIPS and Science Act, which his predecessor President Biden signed to invest over $52 billion in domestic chip manufacturing.

“And we don’t want to give them billions of dollars like this ridiculous program that Biden has given everybody billions of dollars. They already have billions of dollars,” Trump said. “They’ve got nothing but money Joe. They didn’t need money. They needed an incentive. And the incentive is gonna be they’re not gonna wanna pay a 25, 50 or even a 100 % tax.”

“They’re gonna build their factory with their own money. We don’t have to give them money,” Trump added, later claiming: “They’re giving the money, they don’t even know what they’re going to do with it.”

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u/matt-er-of-fact Jan 28 '25

So silicon fab doesn’t need 50B, but AI “infrastructure” needs 500B?

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u/Slasher1738 Jan 28 '25

He's a very stupid man

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '25

People seem to forget that this idiot gave tax breaks to Foxconn to build a factory in Wisconsin that no one uses and didn’t increase jobs. Lol

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u/HoneyBadger552 Jan 28 '25

Ooo boy i love seeing reminders of Fox. Wis rolled out the red carpet and got hammered financially

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u/bkbikeberd Jan 28 '25

At least they still got cheese production. Who needs high paying jobs when you can play with titties *from a cow.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '25

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u/OmegaZeda Jan 28 '25

And Harley still built factories in India...

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u/LessInThought Jan 28 '25

To be fair they probably paid him under the table.

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u/StrobeLightRomance Jan 28 '25

Exactly. Always and everyone. He's cutting the domestic chip production simply because it was signed by Joe B and didn't come with a handshake deal that nets the orange baboon an immediate $1M in his pocket.

I'm certain the baboon gets a healthy cut of the Stargate benefit.. a finder's fee for hooking up his Black Rock friend with a board seat on OpenAI.. which sounded a lot more important two days ago than it does today.

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u/WhyIsSocialMedia Jan 28 '25

That was a 12D chess move to hurt BRICS. Take that Spain!

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u/fireinthesky7 Jan 28 '25

I thought that was Scott Walker right before he left office in Wisconsin?

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u/MrGulio Jan 28 '25

People seem to forget that this idiot gave tax breaks to Foxconn to build a factory in Wisconsin that no one uses and didn’t increase jobs. Lol

That they didnt end up building either. Foxconn just made out like crazy on that deal.

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u/daemon-electricity Jan 28 '25 edited Jan 28 '25

His voters are very stupid. It doesn't take a smart man to piss people off, but that's what impresses them.

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u/Future_Appeaser Jan 28 '25

Them: I like seeing people get mad any way possible because it turns me on ಠ⁠◡⁠ಠ

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u/sembias Jan 28 '25

Also them: EVERYTHING IS WOKE AND I HATE HOW THEY CALL ME STUPID!

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u/SubstantialDoge123 Jan 28 '25

Lucky for me I enjoy watching retarts get taken advantage of by ungodly men

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u/RainRainThrowaway777 Jan 28 '25

85 IQ

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u/Throwaway-tan Jan 28 '25

That would make him about as smart as you average crayon muncher. He's definitely not that smart.

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u/RainRainThrowaway777 Jan 28 '25

I heard Mango-Tango is his favourite flavour.

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u/DBold11 Jan 28 '25

Fucking idiot

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u/ChangelingFox Jan 28 '25

I mean let's be real this ai initiative is in the service of mass surveillance.

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u/Throwaway-tan Jan 28 '25

Oracle CEO already basically confirmed it. AI CCTV that calls police automatically when it detects crimes, or issues civil penalties (Australia is doing it with mobile phone detection and seatbelt detection, and it's just as bad at that job as you might expect).

Oh also the police bodycameras are fed into AI too, to automatically hold the police accountable (lol, as if).

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u/mauledbyjesus Jan 28 '25

SoftBank is financing the Stargate 500B not the gov (at least directly), so maybe apples and oranges.

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u/someguynearby Jan 28 '25

He just said this isn't about money. It's about getting 25% off!

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u/MrrQuackers Jan 28 '25

Wasn't the AI thing privately funded, just Trump wanted to announce it to take credit or something?

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u/redist2 Jan 28 '25

yeah Dumbnald already included the new higher taxes.....he is very smart...the smartest of them all...

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u/skilliard7 Jan 28 '25

The AI infrastructure is privately funded, he's just taking credit for a big number and tech ceos are playing along because they want to be treated favorably by his administration

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u/benderx7 Jan 28 '25

They realized they didn't ask for enough money at first.

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u/WaitingForReplies Jan 28 '25

It all depends on who is profiting from it.

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u/HealthyVegetable9706 Jan 28 '25

His fatazz will collapse a bridge.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '25

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u/KingBenjaminAZ Jan 28 '25

Short the market, that’s how

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u/Heliosvector Jan 28 '25

I wish I was as degenerate as the rest of you and could stomach gambling on puts

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u/zeromussc Jan 28 '25

At some point logic will surely return to the market.

At least the logic that, a lack of stability, is bad for stocks because businesses can't plan around the whims of a child who tariffs your manufacturing partners one day to the next.

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u/Adventurous_Parfait Jan 28 '25

Hm. How do I short "America"?

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u/Dudedude88 Jan 28 '25

Long eursd

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '25

Unfortunately prepare for a huge decline in business and markets.

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u/DentistSpecialist304 Jan 28 '25

Short the dollar. Sigh. 

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u/CalypsoWipo Jan 28 '25

It’s clearly intentional and he’s clearly running this country into the ground.

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u/jzavcer Jan 28 '25

They did say they were going to cause economic hard times. Elon even confirmed.

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u/GrownManz Jan 28 '25

Anyone who can’t see that is probably regarded

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '25 edited Feb 04 '25

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u/WhyIsSocialMedia Jan 28 '25

There's secret Minecraft-based mechanisms.

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u/trumpuniversity_ Jan 28 '25

Buy calls on bread lines.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '25

BUY ALL THE CRYPTO YOU CAN, ESPECIALLY BTC. Might as well profit from them pushing crypto too.

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u/Existing-Nectarine80 Jan 28 '25

Invest in Chinese Yen because the dollar ain’t going to be worth shit 

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u/VisualSafe1955 Jan 28 '25

Start plucking every hair from his head one by one and sell it to the cult telling them it cam stop bullets. Hopefully they test the theory. 

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u/Azertyswe Jan 28 '25

Lol. Why on earth would anyone build a factory in the us just because the administration ads a tariff/tax? Just increase the end user price and you solve the problem of the tax. Because honestly that’s the ONLY way this will play out.

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u/DisAccount4SRStuff Jan 28 '25

The reason both Biden and Trump are trying to get chip manufacturers here is because it's a national security threat if the military can't get chips - legacy and current - if we loose global trade for whatever reason. Both admins were/are trying to get a bigger domestic base of chip manufacturing of all kinds because in the current global climate tensions seem to be rising. The government is really trying to make the US be a chip powerhouse because of that. It's too early to tell if CHIPSs did anything and... whatever the hell this strategy is.

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u/Sarges24 Jan 28 '25

please tell me that's an old quote because isn't the TSMC foundry already up and running, or soon to be running in the US? That being said, all these years calling old McDonald a buffoon may have been the biggest understatement of the century. This man is mentally handicapped.

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u/the_amazing_skronus Jan 28 '25

It's from the article posted. He said this yesterday.

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u/Throwaway-tan Jan 28 '25

TSMC already has a plant in Arizona that is producing high grade chips on a 4nm node. Which is in high demand.

So yes, he is mentally handicapped as he is primarily threatening the company to do the thing they've already done since early last year.

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u/mrASSMAN Jan 28 '25

God he’s so fucking stupid

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u/NoInterest8809 Jan 28 '25

Trump is such a wiener.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '25

He wants TAIWAN Semiconductor Manufacturing Company to 'come back' to America ?!

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u/NorthernerWuwu Jan 28 '25

Huh, so it is either invest tens of billions in American fabs or, erm, the American public will have to pay tariffs. I mean, never mind even that there will likely be a new government in the US either effectively after the midterms or in actuality in four years. That's an eye-blink in terms of fab planning.

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u/facedownbootyuphold Jan 28 '25

It’s a shit game for TSMC, greenfield ventures directly correlate with the US having incentive to defend Taiwan.

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u/radicalelation Jan 28 '25

After hyping up the FOXCONN Wisconsin con for his first admin.

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u/Waramaug Jan 28 '25

Many of trumps buildings where subsidized.

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u/John_mcgee2 Jan 28 '25

So… when does open AI leave America to do business in cheaper countries….

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u/djk29a_ Jan 28 '25

So that he can immediately increase its funding again given the estimated cost overruns due to “unforeseen federal regulations”? Ok, I can only go so far with these shenanigans.

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u/fullouterjoin Jan 28 '25

He can then claim that government doesn't work for the people!

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u/br0b1wan Jan 28 '25

And his supporters are very very stupid people. Every last one.

Not his handlers tho. Wicked smaht

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u/GunKata187 Jan 28 '25

No, his handlers are also dumb as fuck. That is the problem.

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u/WhyIsSocialMedia Jan 28 '25

I don't think he has any. One action looks like it'll be good for the US, another for Russia, another for China, then a whole bunch for no one. This is really starting to feel like just a senile old man with no clue what they're doing. But unlike other senile leaders, had successfully removed anyone around him with any spine.

MAD doesn't even function if you have someone like this in charge, nevermind the economics.

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u/br0b1wan Jan 28 '25

I dunno, the KGB or whatever Putin's Klub is called now is probably kicking back with cigars and laughing pretty hard right now

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u/boofles1 Jan 28 '25

He is the dumbest man on the planet. He has no idea what he is doing but he is totally convinced whatever it is it's the right thing to do. Why would TSMC move to the US, it's completely moronic.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '25

“Stable genius “

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u/VisualMod GPT-REEEE Jan 28 '25

"I've seen more stability in a one-legged chair."

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u/Scaevus Jan 28 '25

More genius, too.

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u/Persistant_Compass Jan 28 '25

Truly a master regard

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u/__redruM Jan 28 '25

But he was supposed to be good for the economy? Is he shorting TSMC today only to announce no Tariff in a week and goes long? Or did we elect a bear?

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '25

you win 'closest to the pin' award.

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u/ScientificAnarchist Jan 28 '25

Didn’t a lot of you dumbfucks vote for this?

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u/vertigostereo Jan 28 '25

It is known.

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u/highlander145 Jan 28 '25

That's very clearly evident now from this move.

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u/Kontrafantastisk Jan 28 '25

You missed at least three ‘very’

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u/R_lbk Jan 28 '25

You missing 10^infinity 'very' in your assessment.

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u/ReturnedFromExile Jan 28 '25

Yes, he stupid but you have to understand. He’s not trying to be a successful US president.

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u/Rich265 Jan 28 '25

Stupid men get elected twice, and make this much money? Or just cause your perceived interests don't line up with someone else's, you think they are dumb..

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u/mrpuma2u Jan 28 '25

He knows they are building a big facility in Arizona, a state that he won this election? Maybe one of his loser tech bro suck ups should take a break from giving him a rim job and explain this to him, like you were explaining it to a 4th grader. Shit a 4th grader would pick it up faster.

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u/MrGulio Jan 28 '25

He's a very, very stupid man.

And his voters are a level worse. They said "let's put the most highly regarded man in the world in charge".

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u/KingArthursRevenge Jan 28 '25

This comment isn't going to age well when Intel.Steps up and fills that market share for the u.S. The whole point is to bring our industry back from overseas. We should not be so reliant on things made in other countries

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u/annon8595 Jan 28 '25

Did people not learn from his last admin and his twitter pumps and dumps?

Hes literally manipulating the market with his wild buffoonery.

Surely he is for the working class amirite Rs ?

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u/Persistant_Compass Jan 28 '25

The r stands for regarded 

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u/musci12234 Jan 28 '25

Please dont insult us by comparing us to them. Thank you.

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u/Xaphnir Jan 28 '25

Maybe in 10 years "Trump" will become the general insult for calling someone unintelligent.

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u/musci12234 Jan 28 '25

Be the change you want to see in the world.

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u/tablecontrol Jan 28 '25

"dammit Bobby, you really trumped it up this time"

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u/Neuchacho Jan 28 '25

I mean, "Trumped up" is already a general way to say "made up bullshit".

Fits like a glove.

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u/Former-Light4284 Jan 28 '25

Signed the crypto initiative, immediately crypto looses 10thousand plus. Announces new A.I venture for 500B, then next day tanks the tech market. A wise person would be looking into large purchases or crypto and tech stocks this week. I bet we'll will find large purchases tracing back to just a few people who needed in on both markets but at a cheaper price point.

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u/WhyIsSocialMedia Jan 28 '25

If only there was some recently announced crypto.

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u/somethingsomethingbe Jan 28 '25

It’s not even two weeks if they do shit like this regularly it’s going to cause a lot of damage. 

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u/Zwiebel1 Jan 28 '25

Did people not learn from his last admin and his twitter pumps and dumps?

To be fair Trump I was pretty mild in comparison to Trump II. The institutions that limit potential damage were still effective back then.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '25 edited 20d ago

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u/Pal__Pacino Jan 28 '25

I think plenty of conservatives are investment savvy. The problem is they're so narrowly focused on short-term personal gain that they're clueless at detecting the very obvious red flags Trump raises for big picture stability.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '25

He wants to build more degenerates behind Wendy’s

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u/hans_jobs Jan 28 '25

Well the one time he did actual physical labor was at McDonalds for 20 minutes and the zit face Kid had to help gramps put the basket of fries in the hot oil so I’m sure he is down with the struggle.

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u/brock2063 Scott Wapner is a pompous asshole Jan 28 '25

It's almost like 🥭 doesn't want what's best for America! I wish someone had told me!

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u/deekaydubya Jan 28 '25

But eggs

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u/poingly Jan 28 '25

Are now $10.

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u/WhyIsSocialMedia Jan 28 '25

I bought 50 million eggs. Now just to store them in my warehouse and sell them in a few years!

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u/StrobeLightRomance Jan 28 '25

When they start to stink, that's a sign to keep holding, the market always goes rotten before it turns around. Good luck!

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u/poingly Jan 28 '25

You’ve cornered the market on sulfur.

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u/sealpox Jan 28 '25

Egg futures looking mighty nice after Trump ordered the government to stop reporting on avian flu

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u/invaderjif Jan 28 '25

Forget America, what about the degenerates (us)??? Does he care about us????

Probably not.

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u/Slasher1738 Jan 28 '25

Definitely does not

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '25

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u/Minister_for_Magic Jan 28 '25

"hey siri, how do I go full regard?" - Drumpf probably at 2am last night

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u/cq5120 Jan 28 '25

explains the 500b investment. 100b for tariffs

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u/Muggle_Killer Jan 28 '25

There is NO 500b. It was "up to" 500b.

If the dumb fuck reporters and "news" channels had the headline correct i wouldnt have to keep saying this.

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u/Jarpunter Jan 28 '25

The 500B in private funding?

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u/Leading-Inspector544 Jan 28 '25

It's only partially funded, and the announcement was premature. Either they'll squeeze Trump for some portion, or the whole boondoggle will get dropped.

But, yeah, tariffs on our ally Taiwan, that makes sense.

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u/KeppraKid Jan 28 '25

He is a foreign asset, we have been saying this for fucking years. He says and does specific things to please his base but it's always things that are ruinous to the nation. The entire point is to weaken and divide the USA while helping foreign adversaries. It's not a coincidence that we had more spies outed and killed during his first term than ever before in our history, it's not a coincidence that he's towing the Russian line. NATO is the biggest obstacle for Russia? How about Trump starts threatening to attack Greenland! Have to stir up trouble with the neighboring countries too to further disrupt trade for the USA!

The entire idea is that he looks like a hero to the extremely and propagandized base in the US and looks incompetent rather than malignant to his opponents. If the military wasn't so compromised itself he wouldn't be in office still because he and those loyal to him are committing treason.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '25

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u/TPHandsGollum Jan 28 '25

That’s like trying to explain liquid cooling to him, they’d tell him about underwater data centers that are naturally liquid cooled, then he would say the underwater data centers are driving whales crazy.

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u/Bjoern_G Jan 28 '25

I think he would declare war on aquaman to ensure there can be more underwater datacenters on US „soil“

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u/Cockanarchy Jan 28 '25

In his defense he has no idea wft he’s doing

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u/Ok_Woodpecker17897 Jan 28 '25

Now it’s a $ trillion investment

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u/apb2718 Jan 28 '25

But r/conservative said he was doing an incredible job and everyone else is dumb

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u/etzel1200 Jan 28 '25

Why the fuck did you people vote for this clown?

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u/sgb5874 Jan 28 '25

Hence why its a "bailout project" they just left out the first part...

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u/st_malachy Jan 28 '25

But then we keep 25% of what we spend and get 50% less stuff. This is basic Econ √2!

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u/alwaysonbottom1 Jan 28 '25

Follow the money. Or in this case follow the puts his cronies have bought 

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u/gizamo REETX Autismo 2080TI Special Jan 28 '25

It's just blatant market manipulation. Trade accordingly.

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u/crazybus21 Jan 28 '25

I feel like he just wanted to get rich which he has probably done and now trying to get fired

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u/Atuk-77 Jan 28 '25

Elon called his bluff!

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u/norty125 Jan 28 '25

Gotta get some of that Stargate money back

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u/Deadman_Wonderland Jan 28 '25

Never let your opponent know your next move.

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u/InsanityRoach Jan 28 '25

Very stable genius.

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u/eldenpotato Jan 28 '25

It’s just a threat for now

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u/DiamondHandsToUranus Jan 28 '25

Can't buy the dip if there's not dip
*points at thonker*

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u/therealdongknotts Jan 28 '25

i got a feeling this guy might not be all that smort

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '25

Brought to you by Carl’s Jr.

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u/DrJiheu Jan 28 '25

Where do you think he found 600 billions dollar?

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u/technoexplorer Jan 28 '25

(3) profit :29637:

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u/ChibiReddit Jan 28 '25

I hate how it slanders my favorite show to boot 😠

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u/Ptbot47 Jan 28 '25

Right pocket into left pocket. Carry on.

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u/The_Particularist Jan 28 '25

"Outstanding move."

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u/Peltonimo Jan 28 '25

I think he’s trying to force them to put more factories in the US? They just built a huge Arizona plant.

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u/HoneyBadger552 Jan 28 '25

The diet coke is wearing off

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u/HustlinInTheHall Jan 28 '25

Because Stargate isn't govt money he just wanted credit

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u/GarbageTime__ Jan 28 '25

It's called perpetual fiscal policy. Spend and raise money at the same time today and forever.

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u/lichty93 Jan 28 '25

calls on anti-pschotics

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u/lichty93 Jan 28 '25

classic straddle strategy

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u/OkBig205 Jan 28 '25

Elon Musk bought him a yaught and spent the tour showing him the wonders of cloud gaming.

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u/Crazy_Signal4298 Jan 28 '25

Say goodbye to US data centers.

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u/GGrindosrs Jan 28 '25

TSMC has a factory in the U.S

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u/Rich265 Jan 28 '25

Well, if they got $500 Billion to waste on crap, then why shouldn't he get a cut? Know what I'm sayin..

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u/honorable__bigpony Jan 28 '25

This is what people voted for...enjoy!

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u/diamondjiujitsu Jan 28 '25

He’s a moron

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u/je2ep Jan 28 '25

How else one can spend that $500B in a jiffy?

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u/mmalmeida Jan 28 '25

He didn't say how he is secretly going to give incentives to the tech companies that pay millions for said chips and who would be impacted by said tariffs, and who just so happen to be kissing Trump's ass these days.

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u/vwin90 Jan 29 '25

Well for one stargate has very little to do with trump and was going to happen with or without him considering it’s all privately funded. They just had him announce it and slapped his name on it because they figured that it’d get them brownie points.

I guess the brownie points aren’t worth anything.

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u/Bagel_lust Jan 29 '25

Well it has the concepts of a plan lmao

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u/PennStateInMD Jan 29 '25

No insider trading going on there. /s

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u/banditcleaner2 sells naked NVDA calls while naked Jan 29 '25

"I'm playing both sides, so that I always come out on top."

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