Trump threatens additional 50 percent tariff on China

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5235955-trump-threatens-50-percent-tariff-china/

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  2. ”President Trump said he plans to add an additional 50% tariff on China starting Wednesday if the country doesn’t withdraw its retaliatory tariff increase on the U.S. China, the second-largest economy behind the U.S., said last week it would hit all U.S. goods with an additional 34% tariff starting Thursday.

    Trump added in a social-media post Monday morning that talks with China to arrange meetings would be terminated. “If China does not withdraw its 34% increase above their already long term trading abuses by tomorrow, April 8th, 2025, the United States will impose ADDITIONAL Tariffs on China,” he wrote. Indexes were down following the president’s post.”

    We are so fucked.

  3. And he said Harris would be the one to crash the markets. 🤣

  5. Trump is a bully …….we should tariff his golf resorts

  6. Start planing some seeds in your garden and whittling your own wooden toys because we’re going straight to the 1800s.

    No technology or manufactured goods for us

  7. And then China said 60 %. And _that’s_ how the trade war started kids…

  9. And so we watch as the American empire crumbles all because of an idiot’s ego.

  10. Guys, I might be wrong…but I think maybe Trump is losing his mental faculties.

  11. Trump can stay irrational for longer than the market can stay solvent. This demented turd will be the ruin of us all..

  12. Last time republicans went crazy on tariffs…

    Democrats controlled congress for the next 60 years

  14. 85% tariff. What a mastermind. Americans are going to pay double the price. Could be fun f China slapped 50% on also. Who will blink first? 🙂

  15. What next, 100%? Why stop there? How about 1,000% ?

    Fucking moron.

  16. China moves to just block all US imports. Pretty sure they are not as dependent as we are. US farmers completely collapse.

  17. Adds tarrif on Wednesday.

    China on Thursday:” 50% more on the U.S. see Trump we can do it too”

    Trump is too stupid to realize that China has plenty of other customers while the U.S. trade partners are shirking rapidly (look at Canada’s new strategy for making a new market and the EUs reactions)

  18. What’s funny is that the US may never recover from that — or it’ll take a LONG time — if new & reliable multi-party partnerships are created to make it up for these fuckeries.

  19. 10 of the last 11 recessions were brought in by conservative govts

  20. **Make it 100%.**

    60% of Walmart’s inventory is from China. You think that can be replaced just like that. You’re just being taxed to death.

  21. I think Chinese will be very happy to retaliate again against him.

  22. Y’all accepted this Crazy old man and his bullshit alternate reality and now face the consequences

  23. It’s weird because hypothetically Trump might be able to win a trade war against the EU.

    But he absolutely cannot win one against China. China’s not a democracy, at no point do their people go “I’ve had enough, lets cave to US demands”.

  24. Americans should look to South Korea on how to get rid of an incompetent president.

  25. So, 104% tariffs on China? Just lunacy stacked on top of insanity.

  26. The two largest goods China buys from US is soybeans and petrol gas. They can buy these elsewhere for more probably but they can get around US for a while. Last time they got all their soybeans from South America. How long can the US companies suffer from no rare minerals for their electronics or Walmart and every store in the US not have much stock for their stores because the bulk comes from China and other Asian countries.

  27. I hit you, but don’t hit me back. If you do, I’ll hit you again. Is he mentally ill? I think so at this point.

  29. Trump’s going big to try to stop other countries from enacting counter tariffs but China was not a good choice to make an example of.

    This is not going to end well.

    Congress needs to read the writing on the wall and step in. Call your representatives.

  30. Trump threatens additional 50% tax on imported Chinese goods that will be paid for by the American people. There we go, fixed it

  31. >We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

    – Benjamin Franklin

  32. Does he just think of a number that sounds threatening enough and sends it off? Or did ChatGPT tell him 50% sounds good enough?

  33. as I’ve said before, when it comes to national commitment, China will wipe the floor with America in this instance. Nationally, they will stand behind their government, and they will see themselves collectively as the victim fighting a bully. America, on the other hand, is only half in, as half the nation never wanted Trump anyway. And that number is only going down by the day.

    The sooner America gets its arse in gear and removes this idiot the better for everyone.

  34. Really starting to understand how this hack bankrupted casinos.

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