Holy crap... he actually delivered on one of his promises. He's running the country like a business. Too bad he runs most of his businesses into the ground and uses shady tactics.
this post was submitted on 12 Apr 2025
60 points (98.4% liked)
News
28601 readers
5673 users here now
Welcome to the News community!
Rules:
1. Be civil
Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.
2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.
Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.
Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.
5. Only recent news is allowed.
Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.
6. All posts must be news articles.
No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.
7. No duplicate posts.
If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.
8. Misinformation is prohibited.
Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.
9. No link shorteners.
The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.
10. Don't copy entire article in your post body
For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
I always hated that idea. Anyone who has has a job shouldn’t want that shit.
We need Ron Vera. Only he can save us now.
No no no. John Barron is the one.
If John Barron needs help he can tap in James Donald Bowman.
Oops I mean James David Hamel.
Sorry I meant J.D. Vance.
From Junk Drawer Vance himself “Any old D name would have done, so long as it wasn’t Donald,”
Hope his passport doesn't expire before 2026, actually wait I hope it does!
Is pizza purchasing a deal?
Trump will be chief negotiator, Navarro says
I think I like it better when we get presidents who come from professions that aren't really amenable to them trying to self-validate their skillsets at the expense of the country by trying to personally square off against the best the rest of the world can dig up.
Some of the biggest fuckups countries have engaged in is where they have a national leader with some degree of background in an area and who are determined to personally demonstrate their brilliance at high stakes relative to the best out there, like Hitler sticking his nose into technical military matters.
I guess the positive side here is that if he's off trying to obtain trade deals, that does argue that the high global tariff stuff is indeed just a negotiating tactic, not a desired end goal. Regardless of whatever agreements he produces for the next four years, I suspect that they'll be better for the US than simply throwing up high barriers to trade, which there was some speculation about him having as an end goal.
With NAFTA->USMCA, he made very few changes to the original state of affairs, and just aimed to use political theater to give voters in favor of protectionism the impression that he'd made much more drastic changes than was the case. That now seems like a plausible aim for him in Trump Term 2 as well.
Why bother? Save yourself the time and worry. The next round of tariffs will only last a few days until he delays again.