White House refuses to provide list of countries it claims reached out with tariff deal

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/white-house-tariffs-donald-trump-b2731708.html

28 comments

  1. My girlfriend? Shes lives in Canada, you wouldn’t know her.

  2. It’s Vietnam, that’s it.

    If it was anyone else they’d plaster it non-stop as winning

  5. Trump overplayed his hand and now he’s cowering in a manufactured self-delusion that is currently saving his fragile ego.

  7. Do they actually realise how much they are full of shit?

  8. Then keep asking.

    Journalists, keep asking.

    Are there any journalists here? Why do you stop asking?

  9. The Seagulls and Penguins of the Heard Island and McDonald Islands reached the trump admin for a deal.

  14. Lying is a policy for Trump. The guy lies even when it doesn’t benefit him. He lies about lying. It’s a pathological need for him because lying gives him some measure of control.

  15. “My girlfriend? Yeah she goes to a different school, you wouldn’t know her.”

  16. The bullshit Trump replaced NAFTA with took 18 months to negotiate.

    The TPP that he fucked took years.

    There is no fucking way to do this in 90 days.

  19. Lol. Politicians all over the world aren’t calling Trump. They are using the electoral annoyance at America to whip up votes. New Zealand politicans are currently having an electorate wooing contest between the lets-reinforce-our-trade-partnerships-that-exclude-the-US bloc, and the lets-just-wait-until-Trump-caves bloc. There is no lets-call block.

  21. Why even make a trade deal with him? He will just change his mind next week and slap tariffs on again. I’d love to see a chart of current deal vs Trump deal. I suspect there won’t be much change despite all the “winning” claims.

  22. You know he’s going to blame it on the Trans part of being transparent.

  23. Why would they try to negotiate a deal? Trump has said multiple times that he’s going to keep them permanently, he’s said they’re temporary, he’s said the countries coming to him are kissing his ass, and he’s refused to take a zero for zero tariff deal with Vietnam and the EU. So… What’s the point in negotiation? Trump doesn’t even have demands and doesn’t understand what trade deficits are or why mercantilism is stupid. There’s literally no point in talking to him because it’s functionally identical to just waiting him out. You get random tariffs and insane flip-flopping regardless.

  24. So in other words, no one did. There’s way that Cheeto fuck wouldn’t be broadcasting the names of the countries as a huge win if it actually happened.

  25. Believe me, many countries have reached out to me. Many want to make a deal with me. They say “Sir, sir, please, we’d like to make a deal. We’d like to make a deal, sir. Please, sir. Sir, please, let’s make a deal. Deal please, sir.”

    And I can tell you which ones. I know all the countries. Frankly, it’s called the names of all the countries, which I know a lot about, even more than the people there. Isn’t that right, Marco? My Marco! So little but he’s mine now.

    Even my Marco hasn’t heard of most of the countries I know. Nobody knows more countries than me. They’re big countries. They have oceans and mountains the likes of which you’ve never seen. Have you heard this? Some of them grow food too, can you believe it? That’s what they tell me. You know we used to grow food in this country, but now we just go to the store. So old fashioned, because we have such stupid leaders.

    With my beautiful tariffs, we’re going to have millions and millions of Americans using their little hands to screw the food into the farms so we’re not going to the store anymore. No more groceries. Just food. No bag. Who needs bag, am I right? Maybe box. Gotta have box for my HAPPY MEAL! Happy Meal, do you know what this is? Happy Meal, oh it’s tremendous, particularly, if you, and then the meal. My gosh! Isn’t it incredible.

    And so we pause, OK? We pause. Because they’re all calling.

  26. So, no one of note is on the list, otherwise it’d be all over the news.

    Xi’s not gonna call him, no matter how much he wishes it. China will just negotiate deals with the rest of the world, and outlast this idiot till he eventually caves, like he always does, because he’s a weak old man.

    Meanwhile, we’re still fucked.

  27. You wouldn’t know them. They go to a different school.

  28. “You wouldn’t know those countries, they go to a different school.”

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