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I'm not American but I don't think tariffs were mentioned in Trump's campaign? It was more the 'stick it to the liberals' and 'drain the swamp' stuff. He only

by wolvoleo 10mo ago

I'm not American but I don't think tariffs were mentioned in Trump's campaign? It was more the 'stick it to the liberals' and 'drain the swamp' stuff. He only started that tariff stuff when he took office. Edit: Clearly I was not following things well enough, sorry for the wrong information.

rozap 10mo ago
What? He rambled about it all the time. It wasn't coherent but he did always say this is what he was going to do.
- wolvoleo 10mo ago
  Oh ok I didn't follow it that closely of course but that part didn't make it into the news here. He did complain about the trade imbalance but not specifically tariffs. Ps: there isn't really a trade imbalance if you take services into accounts but Trump calculated them only on goods as if that makes sense I don't think that would have resonated with his followers at all though.
  - estearum 10mo ago
    Did it require more than 6 syllables? Then no: no resonance among the base.
maccard 10mo ago
He also ran as the “no war” president and has so far attempted to start two, and is likely to be involved in a third. Besides, he started the tariff nonsense in his first term - it even has its own Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%E2%80%93United_States_trade_war https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%E2%80%93United_States_tr...
stevenwoo 10mo ago
This is incredibly wrong and untrue. He promised a $2000 check to every American as a payoff from tariffs during election year and balance the budget at the same time. His chief economic advisor wrote a book on using tariffs to wage war on China and bring manufacturing to USA. He has talked about using tariffs as tool for decades. He just promises so many things, even contradictory things, that it might be hard to keep track of. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c209x48ndjpo https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c209x48ndjpo

rozap 10mo ago

What? He rambled about it all the time. It wasn't coherent but he did always say this is what he was going to do.

wolvoleo 10mo ago
Oh ok I didn't follow it that closely of course but that part didn't make it into the news here. He did complain about the trade imbalance but not specifically tariffs. Ps: there isn't really a trade imbalance if you take services into accounts but Trump calculated them only on goods as if that makes sense I don't think that would have resonated with his followers at all though.
- estearum 10mo ago
  Did it require more than 6 syllables? Then no: no resonance among the base.

maccard 10mo ago

He also ran as the “no war” president and has so far attempted to start two, and is likely to be involved in a third. Besides, he started the tariff nonsense in his first term - it even has its own Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%E2%80%93United_States_trade_war https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%E2%80%93United_States_tr...

stevenwoo 10mo ago

This is incredibly wrong and untrue. He promised a $2000 check to every American as a payoff from tariffs during election year and balance the budget at the same time. His chief economic advisor wrote a book on using tariffs to wage war on China and bring manufacturing to USA. He has talked about using tariffs as tool for decades. He just promises so many things, even contradictory things, that it might be hard to keep track of. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c209x48ndjpo https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c209x48ndjpo