Opinion | What Trump Just Cost America (Gift Article)

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1. “I have many reactions to President Trump’s largely caving on his harebrained plan to tariff the world, but overall, one reaction just keeps coming back to me: If you hire clowns, you should expect a circus. And my fellow Americans, we have hired a group of clowns,” the Times Opinion columnist Thomas Friedman writes.

   Read his full column [here, for free](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/opinion/trump-tariffs-pause-china.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-U4.u9ek.sLdMHGZYgq1J&smid=re-nytopinion), even without a Times subscription.

2. From a global perspective : Credibility and reliability of the US.

   What has happened in recent times can be repeated at any time in the future.

3. This articles entire premise is: these allies are our friends and we didn’t treat them like a friend should.

   I’m as anti-current administration as the rest of the majority of people here, but this article seems laughable to me. This is not a serious geopolitical analysis

4. The “best” part of all of this is that a huge portion of America thinks that trump won this

5. Well, nice article by idea. But man do not understand that China manufacturing and export so much not because government want to, but because they can. China government changed priority to internal consumption long time ago. Bur it is really cheaper and easier to make staff there. And that why staff made there and not on Brazil lets say.

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