Donald Trump the Megathread part II - Mod Warning added to OP 10/1/26

Calling for the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and threatening to use Greenland would tend to do that...

Once again, this sounds like it can't actually do anything.... I'm assuming you will never discuss this again if it's unsuccessful.

No. It's much worse. At least with Brexit, the adults in the room could meet and hammer out concessions. Trade deals are much harder when one party hasn't a clue how any of it works.

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US-China taariffs agreement,

1. It's just for 90 days, so the regime of acute, investment-destroying uncertainty continues
2. At 30%, US tariffs will still be very high by historical standards and hugely damaging. The 145% stuff was more like a total trade embargo
3. A marvellous headline on the BBC website: "US and China reach agreement to slash tariffs by 115%" . That would imply negative tariffs. I know what they meant to say, but this innumeracy is revealing.

I can only imagine the next-level spying tech the Qataris are going to load that plane up with.

Also, what is it called when a government directly interferes in the free market? Oh yeah, Socialism. Donny the Trot, eh?

The Airforce One planes are from the early 90s, they needed replacing anyway but from what I read the delivery time of a new jet from Boeing was years away and the Americans were unwilling to buy a non American plane off Airbus. They've been in the market for a suitable used Boeing for a while.

Both sides will decrease their tariffs by 115% for 90 days. The Swiss talks were designed to save face for Trump. The only other option for him was to capitulate to 25% unilaterally. He had no choice but to do this anyway if China had not agreed to talks because of severe internal economic pressure.

This agreement will take it to US charging 25% and the Chinese charging 10%. In other words, we are back to where we were before Trump initiated this Trade war a few months ago. The Trump administration has achieved nothing in their stated goals. Today will be fun because we know Trump is going to go on record to say this is exactly what he wanted to achieve and he has won. But it's a total capitulation. He rushed these tariffs through because it was a "national emergency". Is it not a national emergency anymore?

So a military coup to overturn the election results? Like Trump considered doing in 2020?

Probably drawing up an XO on this, put his sig on and FO to IRS on any tax issues.