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Instead, cutting off imports would force American businesses and consumers to find domestic alternatives. Because these alternatives are often more expensive or unavailable domestically, it would lead to severe consequences. Inflation, supply chain madness, immediate retaliation.

Wharton should be embarrassed to have given this imbecile a degree. He has no understanding of basic economics.

And we would likely starve to death.

The more you shop, the more you save.

If I give you nothing, and you give me nothing back, we both have nothing.

Mortimer, we’re back!

Trump's math for maga idiots

Even his cult ain't buyin' this bulls**t. And they're morons!

What a dumbass. In reality, inflation would skyrocket due to shortages of goods and the Fed would be forced into hiking rates FASTER as the US Treasury market implodes.

And shut down the supply of many critical things for normal life. Ok. I dare you.

No you wouldn't Donald. You also wouldn't have decent cheese, or scotch whisky, or a motor manufacturing industry, or an oil refining industry., among many other things, Gods it's like trying to explain nuclear physics to a 5 yr old.

Not many people know it but the word “dumb” is spelled “Trump”.

wait, this moron is president?

he literally has no fucking idea what he’s talking about

Ummmmmm…what?

Oh, he’s not just going to blog this idiocy, he’s going to give it full-throated voice? Well, go ahead Donald. The stage is yours.

Remember when @pixelatedboat.bsky.social tweeted this in 2018, and major news outlets had to fact check it? Because we all know that Trump is so stupid, that such a story could have easily been true. And Trump is much, much dumber now than he was in 2018.

Do it demento, I dare you. Stop trade with all countries now. See if demento can get 435 dem reps in house. Absolute imbecile. Lol, his tariffs evaporate too in this scenario. So. Damn. Stupid.

what’s stopping you, jerk?

Last in his class at Wharton.

Wait until all his stockholding billionaire buddies find out he’s going to make it hard for them to make a buck. It’s private equity who sent a lot of work offshore.

I have a trade deficit with my dry cleaner. I could stop that trade and save my money, but I'd look like crap.

Lmaooooo what an idiot

We’d also have no goods.

Still doesn’t understand what a trade deficit means. Dumbest person in the world.

You can hear American businesses rejoicing across the land! Hurrah, sir!

Clueless.

🤣 I don't think so.

The people of the usa elected him because he is them.

Stable genius indeed. 😵‍💫

Breathtakingly stupid.

can someone tell me if it's good for the economy when people stop buying anything

Build the wall! A small wall. Put him behind wall. Problem solved.

LOL

The double ouch being that that trade deficit is only the deficit in *goods* trade, and it's now starting to bite into your services trade and they seem unconcerned about this

Wait. Was that a dick joke?

So no more electronics, car parts, many critical pharmaceuticals, small businesses can’t order shit for their companies. Wonder how Bezos feels about Amazon going out of business?

So, like, rich people don’t buy stuff?

Not. How. Anything. Works.

clueless fkn idiot

god this man is fucking stupid!

This dude is responsible for 25% of the deficit btw

Donald Trump is a pig-ignorant moron, far too stupid to ever understand how anything works. Unfortunately, the same is true of about 70 million MAGAts who would continue supporting him even if he shot, butchered and slow-roasted a baby on 5th Avenue.

Of course, then your producers would be sitting on at least $1.5 trillion of unsaleable goods and all your stores would have empty shelves, but you know what's best! Go for it, "J is for Genius"!

So…where is the money coming from if no country trades with us? Bc we don’t have the necessary infrastructure to be self dependent. But grandpa doesn’t know that and his base is too stupid to do own research on it.

It is like taking that $1.5 trillion and burying it in a hole in the ground, then patting himself on the back for being a shrewd investor.

Does anyone seriously believe that we’d increase our national wealth by 1.5 trillion by halting trade and just no one did it?

Ok. Try it and see how it works out

i see the worlds most hated drunk is going through all his greatest hits tonight.

Putin must have told him to say this.

He is so dumb.

Businesses need to trade with foreign countries you moron!

Fuck it at this point do it. One way to bring the billionaire oligarch ruling to its knees.

But have no products and no friends.

This clod makes W look like a genius!

Has Miller told him he has to create the conditions of the Weimar Republic?

1+0 equals... let me see now... yeah that's 1.5 trillion. God I'm such a genius 🍊💩

Stupidest man to ever hold power.

There must not be anyone at all, who isn't getting something out of it, talking to this man. I would love to believe he is being misunderstood, but these words are coming out of his own mouth.

He is absolutely clueless

"If we stop testing the numbers will go down" - This Fucking Guy, 2020

I teach high school Economics. Here’s how I explain trade deficits to them: “Your family has a trade deficit with Vons.” That gets them about 90% of the way there in less than thirty seconds. 😁 Trump is a moron and would fail my class.

If you include services and not just physical goods, the US has a surplus with most countries. By his logic(?), I guess that means it's actually the US that's been ripping everyone els off all this time.

Trump voters should all do the same in unity. Stop buying groceries and see how much money they make.

JD Dance just asked for more time for the administration to turn things around or another four years. What a loser.!

Why did we trade with them in the first place? Oh, we needed what they were selling.

Would we all get $5000 checks, too?

I was at the store the other day and the manager told me "we'd make money if we didn't sell that to you"

How...... would that work?

By all means, please proceed.

Do it. Moron

And then we wouldn’t get all the stuff we want, Einstein

😵‍💫

...and have so many people follow him like he actually has an ounce of human worth.

Pretty sure he paid someone to do his work and take his tests.

"And hey, if I'm wrong, I am still stinkin' rich, suckers!"

Hard to believe this dipshit bankrupted casinos, eh?

We're going to be this idiots 7th bankruptcy, with no allies left! Hope you're fucking happy magats 🤬🤬

He said 50 billion like a fucking hour ago lol

He's been saying this for weeks or even months... go ahead, coward, do it.

Landlords hate this one simple trick!

He thinks that the imports aren't paid for! Dear Goddess, he is so fracking dim.

What’s more incredible than the stupidity of his lies is the power of belief systems that allow people to accept them.

Interviewing him is an obvious waste of time. But if I could, I would insist every question asked to him by anyone for the rest of his life was to explain how this works. With detailed follow ups.

What a dumB asshole

Mobster Tactics 101

Donald loves the uneducated… but not for the reasons those folks think he loves them.

The math ain’t mathing. How about stop giving money to Israel & Argentina!

Well, do it, you fanny.

This moron thinks making a threat is making a deal.

That’s not how that works! Take your mercantilistic theory back to the 18th century, old man!

This is some of the dumbest shit I’ve ever heard in my life. And this is the guy who said he reduced drug prices by 600%.

It’s like how you make money when you don’t buy groceries.

Bitch please

Even some of them might get that this is incredibly stupid and makes no sense at whatsoever!

Fucking idiot 🤡

Maybe he should do that ..see how that works out for the genius

Meaning he personally makes money when other countries pay him to retract the trade stoppages.

The prez is non compus menti but all the mainstream press will be filling in the compus and the menti instead of reporting the actual and alarming state of the man and thus the country

he didn't say this, did he? How stupid are the folks listening to this shit?

...who isn't ideologically pure enough for me. Yep. Only thing is to stay home and let the fascist win. That will show me.

The witch holding the reins. He really was afraid of wich hunts

Don't forget Hillary's emails. Sheesh.

If you stop testing for covid the numbers go way down. Just stop testing.

How embarrassed is the Wharton School of Business these days?

Really that's not how it works you fucking morons 40 trillion in the hole that's what republicans gave us

Do it, fool. Just do it.

Economic literacy testing for every candidate

C’est vrai, c’est vrai.

That absolutely anybody thinks he’s some kind of genius on the economy is absurd. The only thing he actively and relentlessly practices is his own self-dealing con game.

So everything is just more expensive now