this post was submitted on 04 Feb 2025
1232 points (99.0% liked)
Political Memes
5976 readers
3868 users here now
Welcome to politcal memes!
These are our rules:
Be civil
Jokes are okay, but don’t intentionally harass or disturb any member of our community. Sexism, racism and bigotry are not allowed. Good faith argumentation only. No posts discouraging people to vote or shaming people for voting.
No misinformation
Don’t post any intentional misinformation. When asked by mods, provide sources for any claims you make.
Posts should be memes
Random pictures do not qualify as memes. Relevance to politics is required.
No bots, spam or self-promotion
Follow instance rules, ask for your bot to be allowed on this community.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Trump has said that he's very pleased with how the negotiations went. That means he thinks he got something out of his super epic tariff strat.
Believing that Trump wanted to impose tariffs with no expectation of retaliation and then being blindsided by the counter tariffs so he backed down is just naive. The plan was always to "negotiate".
Mostly I agree, but I think him saying he is pleased is for his cult. They don't look deeper into the things he says and if he says he did well for America, they will eat that shit up.
Yeah, I don't want to give him too much credit but it's been clear that he is at least capable enough to actually lie to his audience while doing something else.
People believing he imposed these tariffs thinking that there would be no retaliation are also being lied to in the exact same way.
I think it's indicative of not paying attention for quite some time at this point to think Trump ever means what he says or has plans apart from rape and pillage.