GOP senator on tariff threat: Hopefully Trump is blowing off steam because this is nuts

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) slammed President Trump's announcement Thursday that he was considering imposing $100 billion in tariffs on China amid the ongoing trade dispute between Washington and Beijing, calling it nuts and dumb.

"Hopefully the President is just blowing off steam again but, if he's even half-serious, this is nuts. China is guilty of many things, but the President has no actual plan to win right now," Sasse said in a statement.

"He's threatening to light American agriculture on fire. Let's absolutely take on Chinese bad behavior, but with a plan that punishes them instead of us. This is the dumbest possible way to do this," he continued.

Sasse tweeted the statement, breaking his three-month silence on Twitter.

Link to tweet

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-senator-on-tariff-threat-hopefully-trump-is-blowing-off-steam-because-this-is-nuts/ar-AAvx58m?li=BBnb7Kz

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Blowing off steam? Be honest Ben, if a Democrat did this you would not rest until that

person was drummed out of politics.

[Cartoonist]

2. What nickname will Trump give him?

Besides the obvious.

[Orsino]

3. It's nuts even if he isn't serious.

Hey Sasse, know any senators who might do something about it?

[Sampan]

4. Maybe economic problems will make these weak, passive republicans stand up and speak up.

So far, nothing else has worked.

[gratuitous]

5. The first response to Sasse's tweet wins the thread

Some guy named Paul McHenry:

Why is this acceptable even if this is just “blowing off steam”?

I don’t expect you to have an answer for this. Because you clearly don’t have a spine to stand up to him. But it’s neat that you talk like you’ll do something.

A couple of people try to stick up for Sasse and his unconventional ways (for a Republican), but McHenry is having none of it.