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Trump Is Flinging Tariffs About Like Sweeties!

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keepingquiet Sun 13-Jul-25 08:07:02

It isn't always easy to gauge the real picture. We rely so much on the media to tell us what people do or don't, think of Trump.
He was created by the media and in the end it will be the media that finishes him, when they manage to persuade people he isn't who they thought he was...
I recall when he was first elected the far right were convinced he was on a one-man crusade to unveil a malicious world-wide paedophile ring infecting those in power.
The American people, some of whom are in love with these conspiracy theories, thought this must be true.
Now, many of those who supported Trump the heroic child protector, are dismayed that he isn't releasing a list which in all probability does not exist.
They will still believe it does, though, and so this tide may well turn against Trump quite soon, amongst other things impacting on their daily lives which they seem to care less about.
We will just have to wait and see...

lafergar Sun 13-Jul-25 07:19:19

Perhaps his supporters will enlighten us.

nanna8 Sun 13-Jul-25 06:15:42

Sometimes I wish someone would fling him around like a sweetie. If I was living in the US it might be fine but terrible for the rest of us , xenophobia at its highest level.

imaround Sun 13-Jul-25 05:19:13

Yes he is. I'm not even sure what Canada did this time to piss him off. Not agree to be the 51st State again?

He has threatened to "take over" Washington DC and New York City, strip Rosie O'Donnell of her citizenship and is begging MAGA to stop talking about Epstein because they are turning on him.

Imagine that being their line in the sand. Not human rights violations. Not being a felon. Not new wars. Nope! They are abandoning him because he lied about the Epstein files. There are talks of protests.

Also, he does not have a mandate, no matter what he spews. That would be well over 50% of the eligible voters voting for him.

He barely had 29% of eligible voters vote for him.

windmill1 Sun 13-Jul-25 01:14:58

Yet another round of tariffs administered by a petulant and bad-tempered American president who, apparently, can run the entire world however he wishes because the US political system doesn't have an effective method for putting the brakes on a dictator.

Why have the Americans give this dreadful and unbalanced man a mandate to do the appalling things he's doing?