Trump on tariffs: 'Sorry, it's time for a change'

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill



BY MORGAN GSTALTER - 03/04/18 07:43 PM EST

President Trump defended his proposed steel and aluminum tariffs in a tweet Sunday, saying it was time for a change because the US is “on the losing side of all trade deals.”

Link to tweet

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/376687-trump-on-tariffs-us-on-losing-side-of-almost-all-trade-deals

[Skittles]

1. he has zero fucking clue what he is doing

it's all bullshit for his idiotic fan base

[democratisphere]

2. drumpf is a train wreak in super slow motion.

It is like f'ing torture!

[bearsfootball516]

3. He even admits that steel and aluminum are dead.

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When something is dead, you don’t try to bring it back to life. You adapt and find another way.

[christx30]

12. Now he just needs to admit that about coal. N/t

[unblock]

4. tariffs worked really well in 1930!! let's do it again!!

[bronxiteforever]

9. +100

I don’t believe he went to Wharton!

[unblock]

11. remember, 2 years of wharton undergrad, not the mba program.

[bronxiteforever]

14. Thanks didnt know it was only 2 years!

[unblock]

18. He transferred in from Fordham. Couldnt get in as a freshman

[jmowreader]

24. Wasn't he also the master of the Gentleman's C?

[unblock]

28. I dont think we know for sure

We know he didn’t graduate with honors and we know he didn’t release his transcript.

And there was one professor who said he was the dumbest student.

Draw your own conclusions....

[bucolic_frolic]

5. Trump is a loser in all he does

Worst person ever born

[fountainofyouth]

6. That's perfect, kill American industries that *buy* steel and aluminum

Makes a lot of sense

[turbinetree]

7. Since you bought your chinese steel to erect your fucking buildings

and your son in law and your daughter are trying to bam boozle on patents and bailing out 666 Park Place, I have simple question asshole........................do you think Toyota is made in Tennessee or Japan, or how about Airbus made in France or Alabama, BMW, South Carolina or Germany, or how about Mercedes Benz, Georgia or Germany, do you think the sole source providers in those states be treated with tariffs............................or finally what about Canada and Mexico, getting doors shipped down /up from the states for GM cars and finally Chrysler cars that is owned by Fiat Italy.

Do you think the shafts on your golf clubs are made from foreign steel asshole..................or recycled American steel

Do you have any idea how Germany taxes our products and how they tax their products, or Norway, Sweden, and their steel, you do fucking realize asshole that mosts of the mines in this country where sold for pennies on the dollar to foreign entities, because of Nixon and Reagan trade policies...................

you are dumber than two boxes of rocks.....................and that is saying something about the rocks




November 2018 cannot get here fast enough

[KY_EnviroGuy]

21. K&R. Truth!

Same words apply to the entire cabal of plutocrats in his cabinet.

This will surely affect the price of boiler tube and other high-grade piping as well as tool steel. Ripples from this huge mistake will be felt throughout our economy.

[jmowreader]

25. I saw a perfect description of Trump once

"He's like your brother with a hangover and a cough telling you why you shouldn't smoke or drink."

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

33. K&R...

... eom.

[dhill926]

8. Hes right...it is time for a change...

so resign already and get your tired orange ass out of the White House.

[RKP5637]

10. tRump, working hard to drive the last nails in the coffin of America. n/t

[Still In Wisconsin]

13. Best case scenario with this strategy is a global economic recession.

Just red meat for his fucking moron base, but the effects will be real and severe.

[OilemFirchen]

15. We imported $29 billion of steel, worldwide, in 2017.

In 2016, we imported $29 billion in furniture and bedding from China alone.

Trivia are fun!

[Mosby]

39. a 5 percent tariff would have yielded

145 million that we could have spent on infrastructure improvements or the social security trust fund.

And the furniture and bedding would not have gone up by a penny.

The Chinese are laughing all the way to the bank.

Eta - I do not support trump in any way, shape or form, but the Democratic party is letting the globalists dictate trade policy, starting with bill Clinton.

[OilemFirchen]

40. That money wouldn't go to infrastructure.

But, for shits and giggles, let's assume it would. How much will roads, bridges, railways and the like be impacted by a 25% tariff on steel?

[hibbing]

16. Was this between rounds or between holes? n/t

[TheCowsCameHome]

20. lines.

[hibbing]

22. hahaha

The thought of him doing rails is funny.

Peace

[jmowreader]

27. Now, now. He doesn't do things like that.

And it's high time he started. If that boy would go on crack, at least there'd be a reason for the way he is.

[Skittles]

17. I THINK WE CAN ALL AGREE IT'S TIME FOR A CHANGE

alas, we have to wait until NOVEMBER

[nini]

29. Exactly what I was gonna say

[TheCowsCameHome]

19. I can think of one thing that would MAGA

and it doesn't involve a tariff..........

[Grassy Knoll]

23. Best Trial Balloon President..EVAHHH!!

[kairos12]

26. Trade war is the warm up for

nuclear war.

[jmowreader]

30. Question for Donald

Okay, it's nice that you want to bring back the metals industry. I have four questions for you.

First question: There are a LOT of shuttered steel mills and aluminum smelters. Some of them are closed because of economic considerations; others, because they didn't make metal economically enough to compete. They will have to reopen if you want steel and aluminum to return. What is your administration planning to do to make this possible?

Second question: Most of the steel and aluminum customers buy their materials from overseas. By "customers" I don't mean the people who buy a car or a set of rims, but the companies who make those things. What is your administration planning to do, besides tariffing the shit out of imported metal, to convince metals buyers to purchase domestic metal?

Third question: The answers to the first and second questions involve spending a lot of tax dollars. Are you intending to increase taxes to come up with the money?

And the fourth question: Since you, yourself, are a very major customer for imported steel, why should anyone listen to you?

[Docreed2003]

31. He is so FOS...even he is immune to the smell now

[John Fante]

32. 41 million US jobs depend on international trade.

But yeah, let's imperil them by starting a trade war while jacking up prices for everyone.. all huntso we can save US aluminum and steel. That'll end well.

Trump is seriously one of the dumbest public figures I've ever seen. A monumental idiot.

[YOHABLO]

34. No problem, we'll just have to fork over more for our new cars. So looks like it's a tax on us.

[onecaliberal]

35. If by great you mean make everything cost more, lose jobs, cause inflation then yeah.

[murielm99]

37. Whether or not he follows through on this,

it is a distraction. He is doing something else, even worse, that he does not want us to see. He is trying to distract from the Mueller investigation as well.

[Codeine]

38. Arsonist on house fire: 'Sorry, it's time for a change'