How the actual fuck are people “blindsided” by this?

He's a Russian asset, what do they think he is going to do anything that's in the US's best interest? He's here to burn it to the ground and line his pockets with what's not ashes.

Honestly at this point I don't know how anyone can't see the obvious.

They thought they’d vote anti-tax first, then pushover trump on the tariffs when they had the time. Looks like they were wrong.

More faces being eaten.

This guy has tanked all of his previous enterprises due to his poor decision making and lack of knowledge. What in their right minds made them think this would be any different?

Maybe your dumb asses should have been railing against this a long fucking time ago.

Anyone else feel like the goal IS inflation?? I feel like they're trying to contrstruct a Weimar Republic situation with this to push people further right. I hope I'm wrong, but this feels like they're really trying to come up with an excuse to kill a lot of people.

The German corporate elite thought they could control the last guy as well...

Didn't he literally campaign on these tariffs?

Where were these titans of industry in October?

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Yup. This is not a new thing. If these guys had lined up to say this at a microphone during the campaign it could have had an impact. But no, they thought they could just control him after the fact. After having seen how uncontrollable he was during his first term. This is what happens when you equate wealth with intelligence. You get dumbasses who think they're playing 5d chess.

Looks like Americans are about to go through their version of brexit. Good luck, it's going to be rough.

Might be a bit of a contrarian take, but at this point I think Trump needs to have a gigantic fuck up to drive people to the streets in anger, South Korea style. One of those 'we need our medicine before we can get better' moments.

For some reason tens of millions of people buy his "'I'm the greatest - only I can save you - they're evil and stupid" rhetoric.

So it's going to take a truly epic fuck up that he can't bullshit his way out of - and that the media can't ignore - for people to finally see that him and his cronies are all gigantic pieces of shit.

I hope he ruins all of them. Every last one.

You had four whole years of Trump to realize he never jokes around, he doesn't bluff, and he's never going to pivot, change directions, or admit he made a mistake. He means what he says and there is no nuance or subtext.

Did you only now notice that he only cares about himself?

You let the fox in the henhouse. Why would he listen? He's not planning to win over hearts and minds

Wait, what CEO is surprised that Trump won't look at data and make decisions on that? Anyone this foolish should have their stock shorted.

He has already shown them what he wants them to do.

Just donate $1 million to him and he will help your business

All part of Putin's plan. He probably gave him the advice on tariffs.

Well shit. I hoped it was just bluster, but if he's serious it makes a lot of sense.

The 0.1% gain wealth whenever economies crash. He is obviously going to try to crash the world economy so fat cats can buy assets for pennies on the dollar, including entire developing nations. Then the fed prints a gazillion dollars and bails it all out.

Greedy pigs get fatter, the rest of us get leaner.

"Stupid CEOs are left dumbfounded when a greedy selfish narcissist who only listens to those who pay him the most is a greedy selfist narcissist."

I know CEOs are never the smartest people, but Jesus Christ. Milk spoiling in the summer heat is less obvious.

Trump’s late-night social media announcements have blindsided both his advisers and business leaders, leaving them scrambling to react.

He said he was going to do this long ago, dipshits. "Seriously, but not literally?"

Just increase taxes on the wealthy...

All tariffs will do is put the additional costs onto the working class.

unilateral

authoritarian*

FTFY

I'm going to laugh so hard if Trump has an "apparent suicide" and at least one cop says it's not suspicious, if they can do it to whistleblowers who risk their profits, surely this qualifies?

Not saying it's likely, just that I absolutely will laugh, probably for days.

After the great depression, tariffs were implemented and failed to do anything other than fuck over the American people.

The event that finally ended the Great Depression was the United States' entry into World War II, which significantly boosted the economy through increased demand for war materials and created millions of jobs in defense industries. While President Roosevelt's "New Deal" programs aimed to alleviate the Depression, they did not fully end it. The massive production needs of World War II essentially pulled the US out of the Depression. The government spending on war materials created a significant economic stimulus.

Leopards, faces, etc.

Good, destroy eachother.