Not just American citizens. The people he grew up with. His own community. He even wrote a book to exploit it. The guy is all sleaze.

They can, they’ll just go out of business. Puts them at a huge competitive disadvantage relative to asian and European car makers.

If it did happen, private insurance would decimate Canadian universal Healthcare almost instantly. That alone would lead to significant political unrest. American healthcare is by far the most dystopian among high income nations.

He’s actually more coherent than during his first presidency. They must be coaching the shit out of him.

Turkey did this and the value of their currency halved in value per year for two consecutive years. Imagine if in 2 years a dollar became worth only 50 cents and then a quarter. Everything would cost four times more and, if wages didn’t keep up, there would be a revolution (or at least I’d hope so).

Eggs at $32/dozen. One can only dream.

You’re likely vastly overestimating their understanding of inflation. For many of them it came down to “China pays for it!” and they have no further knowledge or insight beyond that.

Yes, China pays for it, just like Mexico paid for the wall 🙄.

His rationale is to slowly bring that production back to the US. Can the US even make enough steel to meet its demand domestically?

The theory is that it’ll hurt for 5 to 10 years but be economically beneficial in the long run.

Interesting that the “quality” of the refugee suddenly doesn’t matter if they’re white.

Artists create original content.

As Trump has shown he will do. Above and beyond anything Biden has said or done.

Trump is about to delete Gaza and the West Bank off of the world map. Biden was far from perfect but verbally was never in support of that.

The more I engage with “protest voters” the more I wonder if, for whatever reason, they are actually accelerationists at heart. Which is ethically dubious as their action (or lack thereof) has accelerated a genocide.

Biden and the democrats supported a two state solution. Trump is going give the West Bank and Gaza to Israel.

On Monday, Trump signed an executive order nullifying sanctions targeting dozens of far-right Israeli settlers and organizations accused of violence against Palestinians. The Treasury Department officially terminated these sanctions on Friday, unblocking their US assets and financial access. This action reverses Biden’s February 2024 executive order that had sanctioned Israeli settlers for violent actions in the West Bank, signaling a significant shift in US policy towards Israeli settlements.

In his interview with Time magazine:

Do you still support a two-state solution?

I support whatever solution we can do to get peace. There are other ideas other than two state, but I support whatever, whatever is necessary to get not just peace, a lasting peace. It can’t go on where every five years you end up in tragedy. There are other alternatives.

Today’s headline: Trump says he wants to ‘clean out’ Gaza and move Palestinians to Jordan and Egypt

All in one week. No difference, right?

Hey at least it’s interesting to watch an empire crumble, right? Right?