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/CaptainKursk Jan 28 '25

He is literally handing America's commanding position as a tech power to its chief geopolitical rival because his brain is stuck in 1985 thinking "Those damn (Replace certain 1980s hegemonic Asian state with certain 2020s hegemonic Asian state) need moar TARRIFS!" without actually knowing what they do.

I have literally never seen a POTUS advance the interests of their nation's chief economic competitor so deliberately and without regard to their own position: First by ignoring the green tech future in favour of more dinosaur juice, and now this.

Absolutely unbelievable that this man is a 2-term holder.

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u/fullouterjoin Jan 28 '25

Democractic Party did everything they could.

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u/sblahful Jan 28 '25

That is quite literally true, sadly