Trump becomes a complete host to push his tariff plan – and nobody is a winner | Trump rates
It was at risk! Or the price is right, come to Washington.
On an unusually cold day in the rosette of the White House, Donald Trump It was located with a giant graphic designer that listed the mutual rates that would import to China, the European Union, the United Kingdom and other unfortunate competitors.
The winner?
Trump, of course, the master of false populism, looked at by a crowd that included men in hard and jackets of fluorescent construction workers.
The losers?
All the others.
By perceiving a bad title, Trump had not wanted his “liberation day” to coincide with the day of the April weights, so he waited until April 2 to enter the paradise of his madman. It turned out to be the liberation for its ten -year complaints about America that were torn while Trump blocked two fingers in the world.
“For decades, our country has been plundered, sacked, raped and sacked by the nations near and far – both a friend and enemy,” said the president on a background of nine gigantic American flags on the colonnade of the White House. “Foreign cheating have plundered our foreign factories and brushes have torn our beautiful American dream.”
He nodded with American steel workers, car workers, farmers and craftsmen among the public. These blue collar workers were central to Trump’s political increase. Their industrial cities in the Midwest and elsewhere were dug by the commercial policies of Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton, who sent thousands of jobs abroad where the work was cheaper.
Trump was unable to say that the day of liberation represents a final repudiation of Reagan, still a god in republican circles. But he led a participation through the heart of the 1994 free trade agreement of North American, or Nafta, describing it as “the worst commercial agreement never done”.
In the great revolt of 2016 against globalization, forgotten workers could vote for the left populism of Bernie Sanders, but lost the nomination of the Democratic Party to Hillary Clinton.
Instead he went enough for Trump to make him president, believing to his promises that he could have solved him alone, put an end to the American carnage and make the factories throbbing. Apparently, it has delivered an invoice of 1.5 TN that cut taxes for companies and the rich.
Many workers returned to the Democrat Joe Biden in 2020. He paid money in production, for example with the Chips and Science Acts, a Bipartisan bill that affected $ 52 billion to revitalize the semiconductor industry.
Yet in 2024 the pendulum oscillated again.
Somehow a billionaire from Manhattan with a judicial box has again convinced the workers of the blue collars that was on their side. He said he could greet the rates (taxes on foreign imports), which he described as the most beautiful word of the English language, like a magic wand.
In reality, experts say, it will involve higher prices and slower growth. The premier of the Ontario Doug Ford defined this day non -liberation but on the day of the resolution due to all the works that will be lost. Trump playing with rates is like a child playing with games.
As he prepared to sign an executive order that imposes mutual rates in about 60 countries, he reflected that it was reimbursement time: “Mutual: this means that we do it and we do it. Very simple. I cannot get any simpler than that. This is one of the most important days, in my opinion, in my American history. It is our declaration of economic independence.”
It was a strange message listening to the leader of the richest and most powerful country in the world while slapping the rates on artists of the caliber of Ethiopia, Haiti and Lesotho.
“For years, laborious American citizens have been forced to sit on the sidelines while other nations became rich and powerful, largely at our expense. But now it’s up to us for Prosper … Today we are defending the American worker and finally we are putting America in the first place.”
Even then Trump said he was kind, not becoming “full mutual”. He has summoned his secretary to trade, Howard Lutnick, to bring the graph to the podium and, like a game show, started running through the scores on the doors.
“China first row. China 67%. They are the rates charged in the United States, including the manipulation of the currency and commercial barriers! So 67%, so we will load a 34%discounted mutual rate. I think in other words, we charge them, we charge them, accuse them less. So how can it be shocked?
“European Union, they are very difficult-trader very, very difficult. You know, you think of the European Union, very friendly. They tear us out. It is so sad to say, it is so pathetic. Thirty-nine percent. We will charge them 20%, so we are charging them essentially in half.
“Vietnam: big negotiators, fantastic people, they like them.
And so away in Taiwan, Japan (“very, very hard, big people”), Switzerland, Indonesia, Malaysia and Cambodia. “UK 10%, and we will go to 10%, so we will do the same thing.”
Once he had crossed the figures, Trump came across, as he tends to do, as in a manifestation of the countryside. “The price of the eggs has now decreased by 59%and are going more and the availability is fantastic. They were saying that for Easter, please don’t use eggs. You could use plastic eggs? I said, we don’t want to do it.”
E: “It is such an old -fashioned term but a beautiful term: food genres. He says a bag with different things.
In other words, everything is going very well despite SignalgateDespite Deluding electoral results on Tuesdaydespite a Down market And to bag the trust of consumers. Now also a global commercial war. America is about to discover the only most dangerous thing about a politician who believes in nothing is a politician who believes in something stupid.
