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Such a charade!

It is beyond me how MSM reporters can stand going to work each day for the way they participate in the MAGA gaslight and con!

Tariffs are still higher than they were before this all started. With nothing to show for it.

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90 days?? ok well that should be just enough time for trump to convince the fed chair to drop int rates. once that is done he won't care anymore.

Is it just me...or does that sound like it's just pretty much returning to normal...so it's not really a deal. It feels more like Donnie failed when he started all this bullshit (as we expected) and back peddled to what was normal.

So Americans will experience higher price inflation than Chinese consumers.

The USA is a Clownservative Circus thanks to MAGA Terminal Stupidity...

Putz.

Are importers going to restock with a 30% tariff? Only if they think that they can pass along the costs or they can profit if the goods become scarce when the tariffs go back up depending on who is in the room with Trump when the next tweet goes out.

It is absolutely stunning to see the White House attempting to spin this as a 'historic victory' for Trump. He created a huge economic mess, took out the broom, metaphorically speaking, and cleaned up most of it, and he's a hero?? Trump blinked - period. Xi has got to be laughing over this one.

Is the US in compromise mode, or manipulating the stock market?

Many of those that didn’t vote heard what trump would do. They still didn’t vote against him. Hopefully they have learned an important lesson.

Wall Street won't get it, either.

Exactly. A combination of higher taxes - mostly on the rich and some cost cutting must be undertaken to tackle the deficit which people forget about. trump is considering adding 5 trillion to the deficit by cutting taxes for the rich. This will hurt the everyday American more than people imagine

Wages remain the same. But other costs like energy will go up as Chinese parts needed to maintain systems. All input costs will be affected except wages but pressure will be there to maintain cost of living. Housing prices will rise significantly.

All inputs will not go up 30%. Overall inflationary effects will be 10 -20% or so on final prices. Wild card is oil prices which impact everything from manufacturing to shipping. If sanctions come off russia and iran the price will collapse. Then all bets are off. My guess is that what will happen

Biden tariffs were on targeted items not everything. Most stayed. The 30% would not be on the 20% because the base cost remains the same and it is Americans that pay the tariff. The cost of the product to the importer is the same. So the tariff would go up to 30 from 20 not 30 on top of 20.

So, the us blinked?

The Chinese, just for shits and giggles, should now announce super triple probationary tariffs on American goods for the next 91 days.

It's still a 30% tax for Americans. Better than 145% but in what world is a tax increase like that good for us? Oh, right, in magaworld.

This doesn't sound like much of a deal if it only last for three months. We've seen the ping-pond maneuver before.

Oh Great Leader, praise be to you for partially fixing the problem you created in the first place, with no apparent rationale or strategy behind it! This is truly the Golden Age of America.

Soon they will be back on square one and The Convicted Felon will call it a huge win. The low IQ people will celebrate.

"A deal" lmao 🤣🤣🤣

The pissing match didn’t have to happen at all. Wouldn’t it be interesting if it all reset to the original tariffs and then Trump, counting on the fact people didn’t know what those were, continued where they left off allowing Trump to claim a victory on something that already existed?

They won't need it he's going to fuck it ALL just for the sake of fucking

Blazing Saddles comes to mind. He's crazy enough to do it!

So many small businesses already closed down. The cost is even greater for the middleclass than whatever math they're gonna try to show us later.

Translation-Trump caved. 🤦🏻‍♀️

I’m still not spending money

Flippin' chaos! This administration is just screwing around.

@papst-ny.bsky.social

Looks like somebody doesn’t have the cards.

Calling it a”deal” is normalizing the abnormal.

Just how many US goods does China buy, though?

Woo hoo only 30% inflation!

All he ever had to do was USE HIS F*CKING BRAIN, or at least someone else’s…🤷‍♀️

So. A 30% tax on Chinese goods and a complete disruption of the supply chain! Good going Donald...

De-liberation Day

So Trump started a fire and now wants praise for throwing some water on the fire he started?

Scott Bessent identified Subsidized labor as an unfair trade practice. Almost every country subsidizes their labor with government-provided health care. In America, workers' health care is part of their compensation pkg., and part of a company's labor cost.

"Deal" being Trump's favourite word in this peace.

All of that drama and role playing! It was planned all along.

So much #caving!

Cause the problem Fix the problem Claim victory and competence 🤦

That sound you hear is Trump blinking first...

This is not a deal - Deals last longer than 90 days. Business needs stability not news cycle driven promos The chaos has led Ford to announce that it is closing down manufacturing plants in the US - so far from bringing manufacturing jobs back to America the 'Stable Genius' is driving them away

Or another distraction. No one is really focus on the GOP spending bill with cuts to Medicaid.

Turmoil? What do y’all think just happened.

We're going from a nearly 200% useless tax to a 30% useless tax! Now we only have to pay 30% more while dealing with the shortages and inflation already on its way! Winning!

So. Status quo ante. 🙄😜🤷🏻‍♂️

Still not buying anything that isn't necessary

How the heck can retailers know how to order goods or price goods. All this up and down has to be really causing a lot of stress and uncertainty- especially to smaller businesses. Not to mention budgeting for staffing…

Same old play - trump messes it all up and then pretends to make a deal out of the mess he created.

China “accepts” the 30% tariff because its real exposure is much lower after accounting for bypass strategies.

Chump the Art of the Deal no Deal 🤝

🤣🤣🤣 in less than 2 weeks of boats not coming from China, Dictator Trump is already running scared. He’s even managed to lower some tariffs that were already in place above 30%. No wonder he kept going bankrupt with decisions made like this. What a looser

Putting them exactly where they started. He did not negotiate anything.

Why is a man telling people that kids only need 2 dolls and 5 pencils getting a Flying palace air plane as a gift?

He marched them up to the top of the hill and he marched them down again...

So Americans will pay 30% more on the goods they used to buy from China . Might feel like a ‘win’ compared to an artificial 145% but it still is a real 30% more

Whatever I buy will be abroad, because I'm not living in Soviet Trumpistan.

I deliberately did a huge stock up last Christmas to starve trump’s economy. I buy local, from Costco, or from a California-owned co-op market. Trying to starve Putin in my microscopic way by driving my EV charged by our solar panels. I got these privileges from selling my house. Just lucky.

“Let them eat plane,” the old man says as costs still go up 30 percent.

@npr.org “…temporarily easing TRUMP’S TRADE WAR…”

Of course it’s for him and other countries. He is giving our money to others on his behalf! Not ours!

Why are so many media calling this a “pause” instead of a reduction?

So in other words Donald trump caved...it was a stupid idea in the first place. He has no brain for economics and how to increase growth..just a chaos agent. Billions of dollars lost for nothing...

And how is paying 30% more than we did in January for nearly everything a “win” for American consumers? 🤔

Pathetic US media can’t stop eating out of the rapist’s ass

More of a trade suicide bombing and less a war.

So basically Trump caved. Again. He’s trying to take credit for partially cleaning up a mess he created. BTW, the economy was better under Biden. Sigh…

“So, we’re not going to get rich from tariffs or bring back factories?”

Wait....Trump said the USA was making TRILLIONS from his tariffs.

I really need more reporting around this to focus on the fact that the loss of confidence and trust in the US as a trading partner is not the kind of thing that comes back when a tariff is lowered. A lot of people don't seem to unlock that we're not going back to the before times with this.

Huh…makes one wonder why we had to go through any of this in the first place.

Entire situation is to normalize import taxes. Do something ridiculous so you will be happy with what works out to a 30% sales tax. He lowered it by 300%!!!!!.. when it started at 0 or 10. And nothing on small purchases.

never had to happen in the first place! trump must have missed Econ 101 in Wharton-

“30% inflation isn’t bad” -Trump sane washing news.

So the Chinese people have to pay 10% more for our goods and we have pay 30% more for theirs. Way to go 47!! 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

@bsky.app we're still waiting on an edit button.

You can't fix stupid but you can taser it 🤣🤣

Our Federal Government is out of control - especially Trump who should be behind bars not running the country.

He has no idea what he is doing.

Trump’s tariffs were designed to be shake downs not to solve any trade issues.

What a shit show. #RIPGOP

Americans still paying more. Art of the Deal ?!? Please.

So Americans and American businesses will still pay a LOT more. The American people always lose.

So, tariffs on Chinese goods went from 10% on January 1 to 30% today. Why are we acting as though trump lost this trade war? He's an extremely messy sausage maker, but we now have a 30% tax to pay. Do not rejoice.

Smoke and mirrors. The big problem for the world economy is the massive uncertainty our lunatic president has created. Even if a perfect deal is struck, no one can ever trust that this madman may have a different whim on a different day.

This BS will go on for the next 4 yrs. Making Americans the pawn in his addle-minded games.

These are tariffs ON TOP OF EXISTING tariffs. 30% on top of what we already levy.

Trump caved like the idiot he is.

imagine if donny didn’t do these stupid tariffs from the beginning.

Still not buying anything with a 30% tax unless it's a fucking necessity.

A ‘war’ started and propped up by one side. I guess they are just used to propping up Israel and the language bleeds over.

Still a 30% tax on CONSUMERS!!!!

So basically Trump has increased the cost of goods by 30% that Americans will pay. Just say that. We didn't have this problem before Trumplicans took over. 👇

That’s funny. I heard about the San Andreas being renamed Biden’s Fault.

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Manipulating the market. Again.

The worst part is that the tongue-bathers around him will convince him he's a winner.

Self-described Very Stable Genius.

Fox will spin, magats will cheer

30% is 3 times higher than it was on February 1st