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Trump accidentally admits he hasn’t made any trade deals

newrepublic.com /post/194920/donald-trump-admits-no-trade-deals

Donald Trump has continually insisted that deals over his tariffs are coming.

Donald Trump claimed Tuesday that the U.S. doesn’t “have to sign” any trade deals, inadvertently admitting that his administration hasn’t made any progress during the 90-day pause on his disastrous tariffs.

During a tense meeting to discuss tariffs with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, the president attempted to move the goal posts on actually completing any agreements with foreign countries.

“Everyone says, ‘When, when, when, are you going to sign deals?’ We don’t have to sign deals!” Trump said.

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Trump: we’ve made over 200 trade deals
Everyone: with who?
Trump: she goes to another school
- It's funny he is so stupid he can't even tell a plausible lie! Because he has to exaggerate beyond what's even possible.
  https://www.worldometers.info/geography/how-many-countries-are-there-in-the-world/
  Countries in the world: 195
  So surprise surprise the actual number is zero. 🤣🤣🤣
  
  "He never said they were Earthly nations. He's making deals with nations across the galactic empire!" - One of Trump's 20 billion supporters.
  
  Never a good thing to surround yourself with the fellationati
  When you can't tell a good lie from a plastic nod-and-smile lie, your brain porridge starts to congeal a little too fast
- She lives in Canada. Wait, not that Canada...
  
  The Cañada that Carlton and Will visited?
- https://theonion.com/u-s-ambassador-to-bulungi-suspected-of-making-country-1819564610/
“We don’t have to sign deals. They have to sign deals with us. They want a piece of our market, we don’t want a piece of their market. We don’t care about their market. They want a piece of our market,” Trump rambled.
"Trump rambled" is the best attribution for trump quotes.
- 'We don't care about their market' is such a self indictment of his understanding of global trade.
  
  also like… literally the reason for tariffs: because people want international goods and nobody wants yours
  
  Poor soybean farmers hearing that when maybe 40% of their crop ends up in Chyyy-nah
  Your base mighttt care about their market lil bro
- This is what happens when you mainline American Exceptionalism for 80 years - It rots your brain.
- 'Groaned' gets my vote.
How many MAGA folks will ever see this? Probably very few. And most of those few will dismiss it without a second thought.
- He wanted to nuke a hurricane and americans still voted for him.
  
  Hey now, he eventually back pedaled and successfully redirected the hurricane by using just a sharpie.
  
  I wish he did so people would realize how much of an idiot he is. But then again, this is Maga.
  
  Amazed he didn't try and nuke COVID-19.
Emperor has no clothes. Nazis don’t care.
Dday part 2 coming soon.
- If there’s one emperor you absolutely want to wear clothes, it’s trump.
- The emperor has no class
- That, and the sheer stupidity of the morons who voted for him.
- Have you considered eating enough raw bushmeat that you get a brain worm?
Well, we all know how incapable Trump is regarding business and economy. Basically any halfway professional diplomat or trade official will basically run him into the next wall, head first.
China is only the first of many countries where he will learn that he is playing with adults for the first time. These are not random bootlicking apprentices he can fire at a whim.
If we could get someone Trump listens to saying that the United States is falling behind Norway in dilithium mining, and state it confidently, he would 100% be demanding Norway's dilithium operations the next day.
We should find a way to do this.
- . . .someone Trump listens to. . .
  Maybe fox news?
  
  You could get on OAN and likely have the same exposure
What's that, Lassie?
All he's done is ruin everything and make the world worse for everybody?
He's crashing the US economy?
He's doing hundreds of years worth of damage to the country?
Millions of innocent people's lives are ruined?
Millions of innocent people outside of the country will probably needlessly die because of him?
What's that, Lassie?
Huh? It almost sounds French.
Oh, guillotine.
GOOD DOG!
- He is a pile of shit in a trench-coat
Last month, Trump claimed to have already struck 200 trade agreements with foreign countries, a remark so outlandish it sent members of his administration scrambling to make it make sense. (There are also only 195 countries in the world.)
The vile foreigner swine must have pulled out of all of them over the past month.
- I would say this guy this is dumber than a bag of hammers but that would be an insult to the bag of hammers.
  
  In the hands of Trump, a hammer is corrupted beyond redemption.
  
  At least hammers have a use.
- Those are some very responsive penguins.
Holding all the cards but his casinos are gone.
- You can direct your investments in your 401k to international funds much more easily
  
  Took me an afternoon and two days to funds to balance but totally worth it. I'm boycotting US stocks and federal bonds.
  
  Done and done. Thanks for the tip, fellow lemming.
- This is stupid. Selling your investments at a low price for a currency that's quickly devaluing is two boneheaded moves in one.
  Move as many of your investments as possible outside of the US.
  
  The euro is devaluing? I missed that news.
- Doesn't matter the currency will be worthless too
  Pull 401k and buy a tangible object
  
  This is just the push I needed to buy that Mercedes, thank you
  /s
  
  If the stock market and US dollar becomes worthless, it won't matter where you store your retirement money because it'll be worthless too.
- Unfortunately, the global economic system is tightly integrated. I think this will provide only a minor hedging effect.
  
  As the rest of the world continues to move on without the US, the effect will grow.
"We don’t have to sign deals!” Trump said.
Why even bother signing a deal that everyone knows you're going to break
I'm really hoping that after enough people yell at him about how much money they are losing, he will just drop the tariffs and wonder off to the next disaster.
- You forgot the part where he declares victory and claims he saved us from the disaster that he himself made.
  
  And 70 million+ American voters believe it.
I guess leaders are too busy kissing his ass?
Made deal with 200 nations? Yeah, imagiNations.
- Wakanda, Narnia, Atlantis, Mordor, New Crobuzon, Dis, Sodom & Gomora, flavortown, that isle where all gay man live, the underworld and belgium.
Who is going to sign the first deal with a President who's famous for backing down? I
Wherever he appears, everyone should just break out in laughter.

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