Mainstream Media in U.S. is being mocked all over the world. They’ve gone CRAZY! https://t.co/4UGYuJpUA7— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 3, 2018
The United States has an $800 Billion Dollar Yearly Trade Deficit because of our “very stupid” trade deals and policies. Our jobs and wealth are being given to other countries that have taken advantage of us for years. They laugh at what fools our leaders have been. No more!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 3, 2018
If the E.U. wants to further increase their already massive tariffs and barriers on U.S. companies doing business there, we will simply apply a Tax on their Cars which freely pour into the U.S. They make it impossible for our cars (and more) to sell there. Big trade imbalance!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 3, 2018
Yes, there is a pattern here. The world is laughing at us, and Trump will not have it!
In actual fact, the world is appalled by Trump, and we should all be laughing at him, because his pronouncements mean no more now than they did when he was private citizen Trump. He is not going to raise taxes and fees on imports, or unilaterally and single-handedly impose "a Tax on their Cars". First, because he can't, only Congress can. Second, because a tweet is not a policy proposal, not even a suggestion to Congress as to what a law should look like.
This is your uncle at Thanksgiving, drunk at the end of the table and raving. Sadly, your drunk crazy uncle is the POTUS, and he's inviting retaliation. But it won't happen against him directly, it will happen against the GOP*. (*Well, the nation and the GOP. We will take it in the neck while Trump's buddies turn it into golden parachutes. Same as it ever was.) Turns out farmers don't want NAFTA messed up, and car makers aren't going to be happy with steel tariffs, anymore than plane manufacturers are going to welcome higher aluminum prices.
The world is not laughing at us. The world is wondering how the drunk uncle got control of the government. The joke is he thinks he does have control of the government. But it's really more like this:
On the road to nowhere.
No, no. Too small, he thinks L'Universe, c'est MOI.
ReplyDeleteSome presidents like Reagan have lived in a world of their own, he's the only true solipsist who has ever held the office.