America - The Official Thread
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The problem is that Trump thinks this means he's being successful.
In his view, for decades other countries have prospered due to unfair trade agreements, Trump wants to unsettle that and tilt trade back in the US' favour, to "Make America Great Again" which he knows will mean foreigners will be upset.
If every single person in the world (excluding his base) were to show their intolerance toward him, he'd chalk that up as a victory, as he defaults other people's attitudes towards him to be due to him "empowering" the US with the trade wars.
He thinks he is winning and everyone else hates him for it. His own stupidity doesn't exist in his world, so it's not a factor.
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- a baby, candy, it's like taking.
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This misunderstands Trump. A big part of this misunderstanding Trump is that Trump presents as much, to be fair, but then Trump is a lying rat so that's ultimately on those that believe Trump.
Trump wants to benefit personally. That's it. Trump doesn't produce anything or provide a legitimate service, so Trump benefits personally by being in a position to eliminate competition for those that compensate Trump for that illegitimate service.
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12 hours from "We'll going to stand in solidarity with our counterparts in the House to block this" to "We're going to vote so hard for this that it will clear the filibuster threshold by several votes." No extracted concessions. No reason given for rolling over and destroying the only leverage they will probably have in this entire congressional cycle. Even people who aren't running for reelection went in on it.
Truly unparalleled levels of cowardice, idiocy and incompetence.
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