‘The most economically illiterate speech I have ever heard’, analyst says • FRANCE 24 English

FRANCE 24’s Sharon Gaffney speaks to Scott Lucas, professor of US and International Politics at the Clinton Institute at University College Dublin, about the tariffs unveiled by Donald Trump. He says that Trump’s announcement on tariffs was filled with lies and distortions and it was the ‘dumbest and most economically illiterate speech I have ever heard’.
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35 comments
  1. We're acting as if he has no advisors. Thought experiment: let's assume they know EXACTLY what they are doing. Assuming that, what would be their game plan?

  2. He truly has an obsession with draping the American flag everywhere to boost his "patriot" image, and with his desire to waste money on military parades he looks more like Kim Jong Un than an American President.

  3. This is entitled daddy brat who inherited business and people who will run that for him, literal idiot, and somehow people expecting he will be “good for economy” or for anything for that matter, it is hard to comprehend that stupidity

  4. Its amazing to see how Americans got brainwashed to an extent where theyll blindly parrot anything this grifter says. Dont get me started on that "assassination attempt"

  5. The republican Fox idiots believe anything Trump says, HA, ESPECIALLY if they haven’t a clue what he actually said.

  6. Well aren’t you in luck because you have four more years for you to repeat that phrase. You’ll probably repeat it regularly. It’s about to be your new catch phrase you’re going to say it so often.

  7. Trump is tanking the stock markets o people will dump their stocks in a panic so rich people can buy them back at a much lower price…that’s what’s going on. Holding the executive orders up, like a 4 year old, proud of his scribble 😂😂😂

  8. This guy probably thinking that trade deficit = loss like in the stock investment

    He doesn't have any idea how trade deficit really benefiting dollar's reserve currency status in global trade and US hegemony as a whole. But I am happy that finally Trump crushing US Dollar dominance in global trade using Tarrifs, so America can't be arrogant anymore, soon…..

  9. "What you had is someone, who is the president of the United States, speaking almost absolute nonsense".

    Nothing has changed from his first term, I see. Except now he is surrounded by enablers. They are all teaitors and should be sent to that El Salvador prison.

  10. France has lot of money to spend on Ukraine war. Why they are worried about share market and economy. France can spend money on war.

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