Nah bro, General Motors just announced plans for a pop up factory, this month only. It's in this old abandoned warehouse in a cool neighborhood in Detroit. Rumor has it they don't take reservations, you just gotta go to the factory and take whatever car they give you.
The actual flip-flopping of economic policies based on how well his medication works in the morning is going to do more damage to the US economy than actually implementing the tarrifs would ever do.
First rule i was taught in business class: uncertainty is the worst.
If the end goal is become an autarcic economy : no one will pay millions of capex for a plant in the US if the tariffs are always on for only one day.
If tariffs are just used as a threat: investment decisions related to the US market are gonna be delayed as long as the picture is not clear, reducing growth.
At some point, he's gonna need to choose which one it is.
Maybe you should have gone to the Wharton School of Business, the most elite economic institution on the face of the globe according to many smart people.
Unless he is not interested in the well-being of Americans at all and is just crashing the market so he and his friends can buy low and then sell high. He is not interested in the long term economic viability of his plan, he bought a company, now he's going to strip all its assets, get what he can and dump i.
I am a supply chain manager who has dozens of Canadian/mexican suppliers and customers. This has been a stressful day. Is the start of every month going to be this economic psychological terrorism?
Comrade Cheeto blinks and then blinks again and again. Paper tiger ! Emperor with no clothes. All mouth no substance. Too stupid to understand the consequences of his actions.
Friendly reminder if Trump had held onto his Father 30k count property empire in NY he would be one of richest man alive instead lot of it was squandered on his failed ventures.
What a circus. At this stage, the uncertainty about tariffs is even worse than the tariffs itself. Businesses can't make any reasonable decision right now when this admin is uncertain what they want to do. At the same time this whole stuff is destroying the consumer demand abroad and boycotts of US products are already more damaging than the tariffs itself.
Neither Mexico nor Canada will back down until Trump decides to completely abolish this idea and we all know he will, cause it was stupid from the very beginning.
Speaking as a canadian, I was at a hockey game last night and the box we were invited to had a fridge. As soon as all the canadian and international beer was gone, there was only American. Everyone just kept going to the concession stand and paid for the 10$ stadium beers instead of drinking the FREE american crap. Canadians are not fucking around with this. It literally feels fucking good paying more for a cause you believe in.
This entire administration is like how I did in my job when I first started, was clueless, and nobody was training me.
JD vance's comment of "have you said thank you a single time?" in the meeting with zelenskyy really reminded me of times when I was in meetings and I hadn't said much and I thought "oh fuck I should contribute something", and then I started saying bullshit just to make up for lost time for me to speak.
Too bad no one else is going to follow. You can’t just talk shit to your closest friends, say you want to bang their wife, annex their house, etc. and then say “just kidding, bro” afterward
It makes him look so fucking weak. He thought that Canada would just capitulate, and now Trudeau has rightfully placed tariffs that will remain in place until he is satisfied that this tariff crap is over with. So now we get literally nothing from it, and Mexico and Canada will continue to benefit.
As a Canadian I'll add that we don't really benefit from having tariffs in place (in the end its us paying more for American stuff) but I fully support the government keeping them on so we don't have to go through this on/off bs every month. Hopefully the provincial governments also keep the booze off the shelf as that seems to have American businesses crying and doesn't (imo) significantly effect Canadians.
I'm not a business owner but I can't imagine trying to plan anything when you don't know if all your supplies are going to have 25% (or more due to stacking tariffs being mentioned) extra costs added every month.
Honestly, the booze thing is possibly long-lasting to semi-permanent even if it's officially lifted. For decades, it'll be a point of national pride to not drink American. It'll maybe slowly fade as it's passed down generations, but by then it'll just be preferences that keep it shoved out.
Making alcohol choice a patriotic thing is so incredibly simple since it's relatively low individual investment and there are already social dynamics and peer pressure to keep people accountable.
He starts a trade war for no real reason, learns his favorite metric - the stock market - hates the move, reverses course almost immediately. Why anyone in the year 2025 still thinks this person is good at business or negotiation is beyond me.
Trudeau has a better mandate than trump. Trump doesn't understand rally around the flag effect he won't have it asides from his hardcore base. The Canadians are willing to suffer more hardship than the avg American if i were Trudeau I would keep full broad tariffs with no exception until all have been removed.
its pretty wild....for all of 2024, the consistent assumption was the liberals were going to get shellacked in the upcoming election (for a while they were even projected to end up with fewer seats than Bloc Québécois) and now in the last month it has changed drastically.
To be fair, our last election was deliberately timed so that the followup election would hit in mid-late 2025.
Either the Dems were going to have a wave of success that the Libs intended to ride (obviously didn't happen), or the Republicans were going to win and Canadians would respond by pushing against conservatism.
Canadian political parties always run on American talking points. It's never been this meta before though.
Seriously. This immediate backpedaling signals to everyone that they can just ignore all of his threats, because they are empty, like the rest of his words.
This is how they go on offense, Canada and Mexico have an actual relationship. They call each other up and so “don’t blink” and now Trump is the one going to be stuck scrambling.
I look forward to tighter MexiCanadian relations in the future. I work in food and we are expanding our Mexican products a good amount. The US has kind of a stranglehold on the soda market and I'm sure Coke and Pepsi will be on shelves for a long time but we are giving people other options and they are taking them.
That is literally these folks sense of humor in real life. Trash talk people to their face, then when they fight back act offended that they didn’t understand you were just joking gah. Rinse and repeat
Art of the deal. Nothing like the strong strategy of a guy who failed at casinos and vodka, two very resilient industries. But go on tell me how he is a smart businessman for filing chapter 11 on all his businesses. His only successful one is leasing his name to put on stuff.
Exactly. A lot of people don't understand you can still get very rich, personally, while driving a perfectly good business into the ground and leaving ruin for all the other stakeholders.
That place is odd. First of all they don't let anyone post who doesn't have a conservative flair and all the posts are just everyone in an Ecco chamber saying how he's the greatest person who ever lived.
I don't know about other countries, but if he keeps this up I could see Canada just saying fuck it, we'll keep our tariffs going until Trump is out of office. Then he can flip-flop all he wants, and we can safely ignore it.
The problem is he thinks he’s flexing power but all he’s actually doing is making America the laughing stock of the world with some of the dumbest shit we’ve seen.
This is his strategy to keep people in "fear". He's gonna play with threats and tariffs until Americans stop fighting against him or he feels that it'll be minimal repercussions for his actions because we're either tired, desensitized or scared.
I mean he shouldn’t be doing it in the first place. Just fucking quit the bullshit, renegotiate if you’re unhappy about shit and make the stock market great again
For real. I have no idea why the press don’t call him out on this to his face. “It’s the worst deal, it’s so unfair to us”. Motherfucker you made the deal!
The man thinks that the trade deficit with Canada is akin to a direct subsidy from the US coffer to Canada out of kindness, so, no, he doesn't understand.
This is all just blatant market manipulation. Same thing he’s doing with crypto. Just trying to shake loose as much of the middle class as possible from the market.
I like to think that whomever he has been feeding tips to just lost all of their gains from the market manipulation because they bet it all on a pump with this delay and their calls are down 95%.
Canada hasn't lifted tariffs and has said that there is no meeting in the middle. Trump can carve out exemptions where he likes, Canada will continue with full spectrum tariffs until he fully backs down.
Canada and Mexico should agree that until all tariffs are dropped and the terms of the existing trade deal signed by this very President are honoured, they will apply their counter measures in unison.
They are clearly showing their weaknesses. When they reveal exemptions and roll backs or lower tariffs those are the very things they fear losing the most.
We need to return to stability. It just hurts people in the end.
Market dosen't like uncertainty so removing tarrifs dosen't help it much since he adds or removes tarrifs every few fucking days.
Can the US legislative branch do something? Like literally anything, beacause right now it seems like they don't even deserve the salary that they get because they do nothing. The US head of state is fucking the country over by adding and removing tarrifs randomly every 2 days. Like why are they allowing him to fuck America over by this? There are 0 benefits to constantly changing tarrifs every few days. It just fucks the US economy and the global economies. Why is the USA juridical and legislative branch allowing this?
Looks like what I was expecting to happen happened today - says tariffs are off (again) - and the market tanks anyway. You can only pull the rug so many times. Market hates uncertainty - and this isn’t uncertainty, it’s chaos.
Just a reminder that we just passed the 5 year anniversary of Trump announcing at a press conference that "COVID is the latest Democrat hoax". It doesn't matter how confidently he proclaims to understand what's happening and how it will play out, we've already seen he lives in a world of his own dark, punishment-oriented imagination. In other words, the guy who said COVID would be gone in weeks is the same guy saying tariffs will cause some temporary pain and then make America stronger.
He’s doing this because Canada and China didn’t back down like he figured they would. He can’t risk mexico going full trade war with the us also. China went as far as to threaten actual war with the US, not just a trade war.
is policy that easy you can just flip a switch on and off? like some places probably have it set and others don’t so it’ll just be a mishmash of effects
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