Donald Trump the Megathread part II - mod warnings in OP, Updated 18/03/25

Not one bit arsed how expensive it is. I won't be spending my own money. But I certainly wouldn't be headed there on my jollies

Lutnik is now saying that the semiconductor & electronics exemptions are only going to last a month.

They are going to be tariffed outside the recipricol tariffs with China.

Then in a month there is going to be big worldwide tariff announcment on Pharma and semiconductors/electronics.

What an idiot. Does Lutnik know anything about volatility in the stock market and bonds making anouncements like that?

It's like they're deliberately trying to screw the markets. If you were even mildy cynical you might think it was an insider trading scam.

What a f*cking moron.

The flip flopping is off the charts, and I'd say at least a part of it is as a consequence of Trump not being able to keep track of what is being said and the rest of them are trying to hide that.

This is way more disjointed than anything the guy they referred to as Sleepy Joe ever did.

None of them have a clue. And I think the problem probably stems from Trump. Each of the spokespeople I believe actually think what they are saying is what they think Trump has agreed to.

But it seems that Trump just agrees with whoever is in the room, so there is no policy.

And that is what is most worrying the markets. There is no plan, no strategy. Just Trump flip flopping depending on the last person he spoke to.

Every time I hear Trump in his whingy, whiney voice talking about other countries 'being very unfair to us', 'treating us very badly', 'taking advantage of us' I feel a bit sorry for the American citizens who talk like reasonable adults, not like small children running to mammy to complain about how they are being treated.

Leaving aside his capacity for understanding politics or economics or a myriad other things that he has no clue about, can he not hear himself using pouty, childish language - 'its not fair!', 'everyone is being mean to me', how can anyone listen to him and think he has any flicker of intelligence or maturity at all?

There is nothing 'fair' or 'not fair' about any of it, its just international trade, its up to individual nations to look after themselves in a competitive world, isn't that what Republicans believe individuals should do? How is it different for the country?

Please make this stop , this is getting beyond ridiculous, surely there is some legislation in US law that can impeach or reign him in.

Silver lining time.This is who the US are.

Thanks are due to the all showing,beneficient Trump-Penguin Godhead for making this obvious.

More likely a civil war.

It's commonly used in the US.

If robots, then all those people in the American rust belt might secretly be wishing they'd taken Obama's suggestion of learning to code a tad more seriously. They've been waiting around so long for their local factory or mine to reopen, they could have used that time to do a comp-sci degree by correspondence.

They have learned to be political robots in the mean time.

Trumps physical

He's 6ft 3 and weighs 16 stone

That would give him a BMI of 28

Yeah that looks legit

Ireland's Pharmaceutical and Electronics output doesn't necessarily go to the US. It'll hurt, but the market won't do a disappearing act overnight.