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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's not intentional...

His first term had people managing him and stopping him from doing this shit.

This term is all people egging him on

He thought countries would rush to negotiate, instead they called his bluff. So now he's vaugely saying "everyone" has been negotiating so he's pausing everyone but China.

He wants every country to think they're the only one not negotiating, when really no one is.

trump isn't that hard to predict. 80s sleazy business practices are way more likely than some convoluted scheme to crash everything.

Putin wants him to, and trump is gonna do it. But at no point will trump be crashing the US economy intentionally, he's genuinely doing his best right now.

And that's way fucking scarier

Quick edit:

Even this 90 day pause, it's almost certainly just because they saw the bounce from that fake tweet, and knew it would at least cause another bump if they really did it

They're fucking idiots with no clue what they're doing.