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I hope we respond by putting tariffs on American pickups. Democratic nations need to cut the US out of the global economy entirely until they learn how to act right.

Apologies if there's any weirdness in this post, it's my first one.

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[–] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 34 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I suspect these announcements by Trump are nothing but stock market scams with a whole bunch of insider trading going on.

Trump removed tariffs from Mexico and Canada after a few days. We'll see what happens with this

[–] guyoverthere123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He's put back the 25% tariffs on Canadian steel

[–] INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone 2 points 17 hours ago

Yeah but that's all we have lol

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 day ago (3 children)

He removed them for nothing. He was tricked. Both Canada and Mexico agreed to do things they were already going to do and Trump folded.

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago

USian here. It really didn't matter - his friendly media repeated the lie that he forced those bad old countries to beef up drug and immigration enforcement via his big strong negotiation style. The fact that it's nonsense has no bearing on the political reality here, sadly.

[–] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 13 points 1 day ago

there were stock market movements based on what Trump said

people who have insider knowledge would be able to make a lot of money on that

[–] shoulderoforion@fedia.io 6 points 1 day ago

they were not removed, they were paused for 30 days, let's check back in 3 weeks, eh?