I have to tip my hat to the UK prime minister.

I salute him for protecting the best interests of the UK and standing up for Ukraine. With this concept of a trade agreement, he has bought himself a lot of leverage.

Prediction: Trump UK "deal" will help Elon Musk and Tesla.

Surely, Trump can only lose the tariff war. Didn't he set himself up for failure with every single tariff deal?

No deal will match the bar that has been set so high byTrump's chart of made-up numbers or his tarrifs that are unrealistically high. Every deal, if there are any, will require Trump to compromise. He claims he's going to have 200 deals and they are all lining up because he's the world's greatest deal maker.

No deal will involve amother nation agreeing to Trump's tariffs. That isn't a deal. Take Mexico and Canada. They have new 25% tariffs. Maybe they will agree to 5% or even 10% and withdraw their reciprocal tariffs. Trump looks like a loser. China has new 125% tariffs. Maybe they will agree to 5% or even 10%. Trump loses again. Other nations at 10% aren't going to make a deal at 10%. They will only make a deal at lower rates. Trump loses again.

Meanwhile, the backdrop to all this losing is that the US economy is heading south, confidence in Trump's handling of the economy is sinking fast, and once prices go up, tens of millions more Americans will understand the tariffs are passed onto them. There won't be a lot to celebrate. Trump saying he's agreed to cut China tariffs to 10% will look pathetic and too little too late for those that are hit by inflation and recession.

USA Today: It's official: Trump is a historical failure and we're finally admitting it.

One of the biggest lies Republican leaders are trying to sell Americans is that voters love President Donald Trump. Republicans keep talking about how great a job Trump is doing and how the general American public can't get enough of it.

Lies. All lies.

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The thing is, Trump made his plans clear on the reelection campaign trail. For months, he talked up his vision of mass deportations and tariffs. He proposed massive shake-ups in government, things like shuttering the Department of Education. It’s not surprising that these things would lead America into turmoil. Trump wasn't joking about all of the destructive policies he wanted to implement.

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To be clear, the only person lying is Trump. He is the one trying to convince us that everything is great while people across the country suffer. He wants us to believe that a tanking economy and a tumultuous government are the fault of immigrants and transgender people, and it isn’t working. Even after his declining approval rating, Trump is trying to convince his supporters that everything is fine.

"This is the best, they say, 100-day start of any president in history, and everyone is saying it," he said at an April 29 rally in Warren, Michigan. "We've just gotten started. You haven't even seen anything yet."

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I understand the desire to let Trump go down in flames, but something must be done to fix the Democrats' favorability ratings. If they are unable to create a coherent top-down message by 2026, I worry about what the country will become. They don’t need to say “I told you so.” They need to be talking to voters about the plans they have to combat the impending catastrophe.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/05/01/trump-approval-rating-polls-down-economy/83349237007/

This is the most shocking and disgusting celebration of dehumanising immigrants at a Trump rally I have ever seen.

Watch at 4 minutes to see the video played at Trump's rally last night.

As Trump has made clear, he doesn't care about due process. He doesn't care if he brands immigrants terrorists, without evidence.

You will see in the video, set against ominous music, immigrants bound and manhandled off planes and loaded into buses and vans like lumps of meat, hair and beards forcably sheared off against their will, as if they were sheep, and then they are manhandled to a hell hole where they will remain, even if mistakes have been made, in which case the Trump administration will leave them to rot.

And as the video ends, the MAGA crowd at Trump's rally go wild with joy. It is great entertainment for them. They think this is what makes America great---the inhumanity. They will give him a pass on the economy because they love his hate. This is our America.

This explains everything about this presidency! What AI states about the Dunning-Kruger effect and Sycophancy effect!

This is what I Googled: "Dunning-Kruger effect plus sycophancy effect in a president"

This is Google AI's result:

The combination of the Dunning-Kruger effect and sycophancy can manifest in a president as a situation where an individual, lacking the necessary expertise, is overly confident and surrounded by those who flatter and reinforce their inaccurate self-assessment. This can lead to poor decision-making and a lack of self-awareness regarding their own shortcomings.
Here's a more detailed breakdown:

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The combined effect:

A president who is experiencing both the Dunning-Kruger effect and sycophancy is likely to be overconfident and resistant to criticism, leading to a potentially harmful cycle of flawed decisions, a lack of accountability, and a detachment from reality.
This situation can create a situation where the president is surrounded by yes-men and yes-women who are more concerned with their own political survival than with providing honest advice.

Examples:

A president might dismiss the warnings of scientific experts about climate change or public health risks, believing they have a better understanding than the experts themselves.
They might ignore the advice of their foreign policy advisors and pursue a course of action that is demonstrably unwise.
They might surround themselves with people who are loyal but not necessarily competent, further isolating them from alternative viewpoints.





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1. Dunning-Kruger Effect:
This cognitive bias describes the tendency for individuals with low competence in a particular area to overestimate their abilities. They often lack the self-awareness to recognize their own limitations.
In a president, this could manifest as a belief that they are well-informed and capable in areas where they are actually lacking expertise, such as foreign policy, economics, or science.
This can lead to confident but misguided decisions and a resistance to seeking advice from qualified professionals.

2. Sycophancy Effect:
Sycophancy is the practice of flattering or attempting to please someone to gain their favor. In a political context, it can manifest as excessive praise, approval, and deference to a president's opinions, even when those opinions are demonstrably wrong or ill-advised.
A sycophantic environment can reinforce the Dunning-Kruger effect by creating an echo chamber where the president is constantly told that they are brilliant and correct, even when they are not.
This lack of critical feedback can prevent the president from recognizing their own errors and from seeking alternative perspectives

Do you see the flawed logic in criticizing Amazon when Trump told us that other nations would pay the tariffs?

There should be no tariff charges according to the Trump administration. It is funded by other nations! Their own words, attacking Amazon as being hostile and political exposes their own lies.

Well done Trump! New report reveals the impact of tariffs on the trade deficit. Let's take a look at the latest numbers.

US Goods Trade Deficit Widens Sharply in March

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. trade deficit in goods widened sharply in March as imports surged, suggesting that trade exerted a large drag on economic growth in the first quarter.

The goods trade gap increased 9.6% to $162.0 billion, the Commerce Department's Census Bureau said on Tuesday.

https://money.usnews.com/investing/news/articles/2025-04-29/us-goods-trade-deficit-widens-sharply-in-march

Do you think that Trump would consider using a nuclear weapon if he thought it would benefit him?

To Trump, "a good day in talks and meetings" means it is now "set in stone" that Ukraine concedes land.

While Trump pretends to be a peacemaker, humiliating and blaming Zelensky on the world stage, trying to bully him into making a deal, and posting BS on social media, Putin accelerates drone and missile strikes. It is obvious that Trump and Putin are working together to exert maximum pressure.

From the UK's Independent

Ukrainians consider the proposal very one-sided in Russia’s favour, but it is “set in stone” as far as the US is concerned, according to the Times newspaper.

As he touched down in Rome, Mr Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform that it had been “a good day in talks and meetings with Russia and Ukraine”.

Steve Witkoff, the US special envoy who has been deeply involved in the negotiations, met Mr Putin in Moscow on Friday for peace talks.

“They are very close to a deal, and the two sides should now meet, at very high levels, to ‘finish it off.’ Most of the major points are agreed to. Stop the bloodshed, NOW,” Mr Trump wrote on his social media site.

https://www.the-independent.com/news/uk/home-news/donald-trump-russia-ukraine-rome-volodymyr-zelensky-b2739834.html