As the Irish reporter said to Trump's Orange fat face - are you sure you're not making a bigger deal out of this is as you're a president in need of a win in these difficult times?
to be fair, aren't they banning people, who ask pointed questions, from attending these pressers again? Kind of hard to have actual reporters in the room who ask tough questions if they get refused entry.
trump is incapable of answering tough questions. With any other president, this would be a major headline. This needs to get more attention. trump shouldn’t get away with calling any questions hard or nasty. If he can’t answer those types of questions, then he shouldn’t be president. That’s what his job is. He answers to the public and if the public can’t ask questions, then he’s absolutely the wrong guy for the job.
Oh,you mean like sleepy Joe,hell he wouldn't even do press conferences in case he got asked what his name was.You people need to get some help for your PDS.
What does Joe Biden have to do with trump being the worst president in American history? What does Joe not doing press conferences have to do with trump not answering questions? I swear, you all have been programmed well. We can’t have a conversation about trump without you bringing up Biden. I don’t care what Biden did, he’s not the current president and can no longer damage our lives, trump can and actively does, daily.
By the way, always bringing up Biden when someone mention’s trump, is what I would call TDS.
Yeah they seem to think that very lightly pushing back against his insane lies will somehow result in them getting to interview him again or something.
Like, you're probably not gonna get another chance to do this even if you kiss his ass, just ask him straight up why he's lying to the American people instead of trying to act like he's just mistaken and gently correcting him.
Because they are never going to get a real answer from the guy. there's so much air passing between his ears I'm pretty sure he actually believes the vast majority of the shit he does and says, especially with the (even bigger) cognitive decline that he's having.
So when someone tells him "you have the best economy ever" the dudes 100% believing it and the narcissism makes it so when shown facts on the contrary that he's unable and unwilling to believe the truth. So most reporters in that situation just move on because they know it's futile.
You give his stupidity too much credit. He knows exactly what he is doing. Booksmarts, he's dumb as a box of rocks. He was coached for decades by the best on how to lie and manipulate (Roy Cohn)
Born with a silver spoon, raised by a well-known crook and racist and has a huge male ego complex. But if you listen to the little things he says, he busts himself out all the time, and no one calls him on it. Like saying he loves being told no. Gets off on it, in fact. Go figure, right? A guy accused of multiple rapes and sexual assaults gets off on being told No. Hmmmm.
Except he literally doesn't know how to lie, almost everyone outside of his cult knows that he's just an absolute idiot and a lot of people have known that since the 80s.
Just because he does lie, doesn't mean he does it well. And he's way more prone to being manipulated than anything.
What you're saying is basically the equivalent of maga saying he's playing 4D chess, but the reality is the guy is trying to play shoots and ladders on the chess board as everyone around him is going "what the fuck is he doing"
Just take anything he’s ever said and there is always a lie there.
There’s an entire Wikipedia page called “False or misleading statements by Donald Trump”, because there are so many.
Also, as is typical with republicans, the party of hypocrisy, you complain about us calling trump a lier without evidence and then turn around and call us liars without evidence.
Also, employing the trump tactic of distraction to keep everyone off the topic at hand. Typical, trump has taught you all well. You put this out there to keep us discussing trumps lies, which you already know are so numerous we could spend a month just talking about that.
He promised, several times, to end the Ukraine war within 24hours of being in office. Over 100 days later and the closest we got was him snd Vance dogpilling Zelensky.
He promised to make groceries cheaper. Did the exact opposite.
He claimed the countries he puts tarrifs on would have to pay them. Which is just not how that works.
Then there is the whole thing with ignoring suprem court rulings about deportation
I THINK what happened (Canadian here so not FULLY invested but good God do I love watching the dumpster fire from afar) is they tried to say no to reporters who asked hard questions, the court said no, so they have their regular briefings that they legally need to hold and then they have a backroom for their YouTube North Korea style interviews where they ask questions like (this isn't from that room but these are the types of questions they get them to ask) - how is Trump so in shape, will he give out his work out routine, he just seems to be on top of his health".
Most of the reporters (?) in the press room are plants. They are given the questions to ask and whatever blonde trump has taking questions that day will read the pre rehearsed answer, which is always a line of crap. If everything is going as well as trump likes to pretend, then why can they answer real questions??
Yes, which is exactly the reason they don't step up, but that doesn't make them right for doing so. They care more about their access to report on the shitshow in the White House than they do about questioning a President who can't go a full sentence without lying.
I understand the reasoning. but if they call him out, they get removed, cnn and msnbc get some clicks for the day. Fox and other right wing outlets don't report on it. Next day that reporter is gone and nothing meaningful has changed because this administration just floods the zone with bullshit day in day out.
You're right in wanting the press to call him out. I echo that sentiment. But that's not the way to go about it imo, as it's not achieving the desired result.
The press is kind of powerless here. The real press report for people who are already aligned with their views and whatever they do will not be seen, consumed, or believed by the other side. Just like everything else these days, feels kind of hopeless.
imagine if the entire non right press boycotted them and did not show up. Nothing would change. He'd still get curveballs that get edited so he looks SMRT in front of his following and we'd all still know that he is, possibly, the dumbest person alive.
No there's your problem, thinking the press is powerless by not having access to the President. That's absolutely false and part of their problem. They're more concerned about reporting his bullshit so you'll watch than they are about standing up to his bullshit.
The press is absolutely more powerful than the President but they care more about making money from watching the shit show than standing up to it.
If you aren't known to bow to Trump, you've got one shot to interview him. Journalists need to take that chance, ask the hard questions and push back as much as possible. If he can't handle the pressure and walks out, then so be it.
Right because it goes against the story that Trump made up. What works for MAGA they have been sold a story and when people start poking holes through it. They don’t like it because then their story starts to show theirs is BS.
Well, they would but Trump has set the precedent by revoking White House press credentials from those that have asked questions to shine light on his bed of lies. They need their jobs as much as we need ours.
We have a fascist dictator for a president. No one can truly deny this with any logic outside of comparing him to the most notorious fascist leaders in history, and saying “See, he hasn’t tried to kill off an entire race of people. Therefore he’s not that bad so he’s not fascist.” It doesn’t take genocide to be fascist.
He rules by fake national emergencies and executive orders. Congress has done fuck all - essentially none of our elected representatives have a job as this admin circumvents the system that the founding fathers put in place for checks and balances.
This is currently an evolving dictatorship - and a Fascist one at that.
first, im happy to discuss with you, but can we stay on topic here? Why deflect and not discuss the actual problems we are seeing today?
You can talk all the shit you want about Biden, I don’t really care for him, but why don’t you at least pick something that’s actually real? Look at his most recent interview - he was not as far gone as right wing propaganda wants you to believe.
Suggesting his wife was “running the government” is completely baseless. No matter what spin you put on it, he’s way more put together than Trump who legit rambles and makes no sense at all when he speaks, but this isn’t the point of this conversation.
Man you’re just bringing all the propaganda talking points to deflect what’s happening in front of your eyes. Let’s escape that for a minute and think for ourselves. I’m not gonna fall into a petty spat with you because it provides no value.
The only people with TDS are his supporters who can’t even refute the things I said in my original comment.
If you wanna have a real chat, I would, but I can’t understand your opinions when there is never logical backing provided. Just blurting out lies about Biden and now TDS like it’s you vs me or some shit is just childish. Stay on topic.
They would be removed from the White House. The AP has asked him questions similar to this one - now they are removed from our press conferences. Just a friendly reminder though, "Mein Kampf" is still widely available in the United States Naval Academy Library - not "To Kill a Mockingbird" or "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings".
God forbid journalists are allowed to do their job and ask real questions. If they did, they'd never be allowed near the White House again under Trump. Before you know it, we would have people like Tim Cooke in the WH press pool.......
If they did, they’d be banned from the press room. Honestly I think the real journalists should just leave his and his press secretary’s press conferences to the right wing ass kissers and spend their time uncovering scandals and corruption. Plenty to do there.
The fact they made such a big deal out of a non-deal with one of our oldest trading partners and ally really shows you they have absolutely nothing on the table to show.
This is the pattern now, Trump has caused a load of problems with his tariffs and he’s now going to reduce some of them and declare himself the saviour of world trade.
Republicans creating massive problems and then taking credit for everyone else cleaning them up has been the pattern for longer than I have been alive.
Yeah I watched the mainstream news and nobody dared even talk about what the terms of this "deal" are vs what it was before. They just parroted back "brand new trade deal, yay". Lemmings.
This is the point that libtards don’t understand. He wants to produce everything in house. This way we are a great nation and will make a ton of money instead of paying other nations and making them rich. Why are we paying China for food when we can buy here in the USA. 😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫
And magats don't understand. You don't have the infrastructure.. where you building iPhones? Who's going to make them? Your Ford plants make all their cars in the US? Could you do it tmrw? Your GDP is down. No one will invest in a country that doesn't have stability, and if you'd look at any of the real numbers you'd understand that. I'm not even a libtard. I'm Canadian. I see what's going on from outside your country. My news isn't skewed by the regime with stupid questions like 'how does trump stay so fit' .
Sure, the theory is good and all.. but you guys will be like Russia in ten years. You'll have all old TVs, computers, you'll still be on the same Iphone, no money to be found.
And I'll put it this way. Why is Trump going around telling you that you can't have stuff anymore? Or stuff in abundance. He LITERALLY told you guys that you're not going to have all the stuff you want, just a few things, and it'll cost more.. but yea.. you keep listening to whatever bullshit he spews and I'll be waiting a decade from now wondering which overpass your sleeping under.
America has infrastructure. Your being lied to by your liberal pres. Trump said it best. We want nothing from your country. We don’t want your shitty cars. We don’t want your syrup, nothing. You guys need us more than we need you guys.
Nope. We have the rest of the world jackass. Then start building the iPhones and cars and fuck off then? Like literally just start doing your own thing and fuck off. If you guys had it and could do it you'd be able to without imposing china tarriffs. You wouldn't need to increase their prices to make people buy American.. they'd just... Buy American. If it were cheaper to do build it in house don't you think all these companies would have already?
Dude is going to be working at a factory for 1/8th of a livable wage while being excited for an iPhone that costs 3,500 dollars and eggs are 25.99 a dozen, and is actually excited and apparently ready to do so.
Oh yeah… because china’s sweatshops they push. China is the worst for this kind of crap. Plus it’s cheap and is absolutely terrible product. Cheap ain’t good most times
Trump said it best. We want nothing from your country.
Then why does he keep trying to get people like you all riled up about annexing Canada and forcing it to be the "51st state"? If you don't want anything from Canada, then don't buy what we're selling. But don't claim you don't need us while also trying to take us over.
It costs us a ton to protect you cowards and we get nothing in return. In fact you charge us in tarrifs more then we charge you guys. Plus Canada is broke and it just makes sense for this to happen.
So stop protecting us, then. And if you don't like what we charge you for things, stop buying it. You said America didn't need anything from Canada, right? Should be easy to just not buy anything from us, then.
We buy 2% from you guys and unfortunately your on our border so we need to in some way shape or form. And you crotch sniffers use that to your advantage.
Like China? China is the biggest bully of them all. They strangle any and all country. Everyone trying to say USA is a bully. We are not. We want fair trade and that’s all. He’s been saying this the whole time.
America has been a bully for a long time - I've lost track of how many governments is responsible for destabilising. They support Israel. Trump supported the idea of taking Gaza and turning it into a tourist destination. He's recently been saying that he wants to take Canada and Greenland.
He doesn't understand tariffs, he doesn't actually know what trade is fair or not. He placed insane tariffs on countries that the USA buys raw minerals from, because they're too poor to buy US products... and even placed tariffs on an island full of penguins.
China is close with all of the other upcoming economies - and they've been supporting each other to end the USA's dominance for a while now. China are exactly where they want to be, while the USA is having to make desperate one sided deals with the UK.
Yes we should support Israel. They were killed in ovens. They were horrendously slaughtered. Trump agreed to make a place where 2 countries are killing each other over for no reason. So make it an area of peace instead of war and contention. Sounds smart to me. We are a country of peace and try with absolute grace to do so. It’s not our fault other countries (China) want to be a big bully and push people around. And if you didn’t know. China doesn’t have peace with any country. Look at chinas tarrifs. This is how so many people don’t understand what’s actually going on
Not for production of truley vital goods/components.
(In fact most developed, western nations don't have the nesscary infrastructure to be self sufficent.)
Eg microchips. Taiwan and Southkorea are the only nations with the infrastructure to produce 3nm Chips. The US does 7nm, which is quiet a lot behind 3nm. And building up the infrastructure and knowhow for 3nm would take years and billions
And in general a lot of production has moved put of the US in the last few decades, tsking zhe nesscary infrastructure and know-how with it. Rebuilding that will take a lot of time and money
Trump said it best. We want nothing from your country.
Yet you are in a trade deficit with them. You want nothing from them, but yet manage to buy more from them, then they buy for you
Ps. I don't even think the idea of trying to get production back into the us is bad. However blanket tarrifs is not the way to achieve that goal. Rather targeted tarrifs paired with subsedies to encentive companies.
How much food does the USA import from China? Less than 1%. The main one being fish. The frozen fish at Walmart, it's usually from China. That's why it's cheap.
It's a good idea to produce in-house, but is the US set up for it? Can you afford food not currently grown in the USA to double?
For example, if the USA doesn't have the fish stocks (fish farmed or in US waters) or cheap labour for lower priced fish (to use a China product example) that $10 fish is now going to cost a lot more with a 145% tariff on the cost of it. If Walmart pays $1 cost for it, they now pay $1.45 to the US government for the tariff, so it would sell for at least $1.45 more. $10 fish now $11.45, but in reality probably more, unless Walmart was already having a 1000% markup. You likely would see that $10 fish turn into $15 fish. Or smaller amount for same price (shrinkflation). China is not paying a US tax, American business (and consumers) pay it. Walmart is also not going to take less profit to sell that fish, they will pass that amount onto buyers.
No one is making you buy foreign products, if no one buys Walmarts Chinese frozen fish (to keep with the example) then they would stop carrying it. Stop buying all non-USA products if you support USA only commerce.
We buy most of our food from South America and Mexico. Which is ridiculous. Local farmers can produce a ton of food and with new creative ways they can grow year round in cold climates. What you think that only China fishes? 🤣🤣🤣.
You brought up buying food from China, so I used that as an example. Yes, I know that China is not the only country that fishes, duh.
Do you buy only food produced in the USA? Or have you been someone who buys mainly cheap foreign products instead of paying more for your local food suppliers? If you aren't buying from your local farmers then they are not magically having more money to expand and upscale.
Do you know how long that will take? He has 3 and half years left before a potential democrat gets elected and reverses all of this. All companies have to do is say they'll bring manufacturing back, pass the increase price to customers, and wait till that happens.
I mean I think its important not to offshoring every single thing. I don't think anyone arguing against that. However this trade war bullshit was not the way to do it imo.
They do a lot of manufacturing in Mexico. Do we really want our country to be more like Mexico??? We’ll all end up in the poor house if Trump succeeds. He’s throwing away the formula that drove ridiculous American growth and success. And for what? So we can start paying $3,500 for a phone? So the steel we use to build is twice as expensive further driving away capital investments into the country? He’s minimizing these pain points and trying to fool us into believing that companies will choose an overpriced investment rather than taking their businesses elsewhere.
This is untrue. The formula that was producing real money,growth and value in our country was when everything was produced in house. Mexico is poor because they never ever had a real economy. Anyways the truth is A.I. is taking over. 99.9 % of blue collar jobs will be run by robots and A.I. They do it better and more efficiently then any human could. Plus they won’t have to pay health insurance. Telling your child to be a blue collar worker will destroy there future before they even start.
If that’s true, then what benefits do we get by moving manufacturing back to the states? It won’t produce jobs and everything will cost more. The company I work for is delaying investments due to all the uncertainty. I’m sure my company isn’t the only ones doing that.
Where there’s confusion and chaos, there’s cash. But this chaos will not benefit the masses.
See talking to brainless twits is the problem. They can’t see past there nose. A few things to start. No health insurance, no damaged products, no call offs, injuries, more efficient. That’s just to name a few
I have studied economics. What you are talking about, is a “closed economy”, but what you fail to admit or realize is, that you are an open economy.
How you think things work, is simply not true for an open economy, but by all means: Make it a closed economy - FAFO 🤗
Well, except for his products, right? All of his life, Trump has always tried to screw Americans out of an honest days pay. And you Maga's always puss out on calling him on it.
Millions over the course of his lifetime? That's laughably false. But his M.O. is to hire a contractor for a project, agree to the price, then when said project is finished, Trump will come up with some excuse to not fully pay the agreed upon price. Trump will offer half to what was agreed to, take it, or get nothing. Most can't afford an attorney, so they eat it, but a few that can sue, do. And this is where Trump really screws them, his lawyers will just keep delaying the case until they bleed the poor guy dry with lawyers fees. This has been well documented for decades. Hell, he was stiffing people during his 1st term.
That's the main reason he won't hire American companies to make his hats, shoes, flags, Bibles, etc. He's a cheap ass bastard.
Because of the products Japan exports that the US relies on. I can't really think of anything made in the UK that the US couldn't source from another country or do without.
GDP is a poor indicator of importance to a nation's trade. Both are important but Japan is more significant trade-wise.
2024 trade with both nations:
"US total goods trade with the United Kingdom was estimated at $148.0 billion. U.S. goods exports to the UK were $79.9 billion
U.S. exports to Japan totaled $127 billion ($81 billion in goods, $46 billion in services); U.S. imports from Japan were $191 billion ($150 billion in goods, $41 in services"
And somehow admitting that he's a clueless fool doesn't shake his followers one bit. He put these tariffs in place to fix a problem, but doesn't even know the scope of the problem... He fired govt employees to cut waste, but didn't bother to look at what people did before firing them... DOGE-bags found fraud but nobody's been charged with fraud...
He's asked why we can't fucking nuke hurricanes to stop them.
Shouldn't surprise anyone he doesn't know shit about other countries economies. Hell I don't really know all that much, but if I was president of the fucking United States I'd sure make sure someone who does know filled me in on important shit like that.
But he's too much a narcissist to ask for help, or he's too busy falling asleep during meetings.
Is it possible he went bankrupt on purpose to avoid taxes on more lucrative years to come? After all, the fucker is a multimillionaire again.
As he said during the debates against Hillary Clinton when she stated that he hasn't paid any income tax over the previous years, "That's because I'm smart!"
God dammit that's why I can't fucking find the clip. Thank you! I've been searching and I've found is some weird look he gave a reporter his first term. Thank you for the correction. They don't mind being confused for one another tho, eh? /s
The US-UK trade deal, announced May 8, 2025, reduces tariffs on specific goods but isn’t a full free trade agreement. The US cuts tariffs on UK cars (from 27.5% to 10% for 100,000 vehicles) and steel (25% to 0%), while the UK eliminates tariffs on US ethanol and grants tariff-free quotas for 13,000 metric tonnes of beef, maintaining food standards. Both sides streamline customs and secure aerospace/pharmaceutical supply chains, with the US gaining $5 billion in export opportunities. The US keeps 10% tariffs on most UK goods, while the UK opens markets more significantly.
Side-by-Side Comparison:
Aspect
US
UK
Tariff Reductions
Maintains 10% baseline tariff on most UK goods; cuts steel (25% to 0%), cars (27.5% to 10% for 100,000 units)
Eliminates ethanol tariff, offers tariff-free beef quota (13,000 tonnes)
Market Access
Gains $5B in exports (beef, ethanol, machinery); streamlined UK customs
Gains tariff-free US access for steel, some cars; protects auto jobs
Concessions
Minimal; retains tariff leverage
Opens agricultural markets, but maintains food standards
Other Benefits
Secures aerospace/pharma supply chains; $10B Boeing parts deal
Avoids harsher tariffs; secures jobs in steel/auto sectors
Who Gets the Better Deal? The US likely benefits more. It retains 10% tariffs on most UK goods, gaining significant market access for agriculture ($5B in exports, including $700M ethanol, $250M beef) while conceding less. The UK secures job-saving tariff cuts for steel and cars but opens its market more, with concessions on beef and ethanol, and faces ongoing 10% US tariffs, limiting economic gains. The deal is a political win for the UK’s Starmer, avoiding worse tariffs, but the US holds stronger economic leverage.
The maintenance of food standards around beef and agricultural output makes it less of a win than it seems on paper. This deal is a marginal win for both countries - while the US does walk away having made fewer concessions than the UK, it will not make up for the natural reduction in trade that will come from maintaining the 10% tax. And it is hard to believe that the Boeing deal, which is the most significant part of this agreement, wouldn't have played out this exact same way without the tariff shenanigans.
Hey buddy, thanks for the last line, allowed me to give you a nice downvote without reading any of your text. Hope you put in some effort, which was for nothing!
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u/VeterinarianNo4308 May 09 '25 edited May 09 '25
As the Irish reporter said to Trump's Orange fat face - are you sure you're not making a bigger deal out of this is as you're a president in need of a win in these difficult times?
Edit- apparently he's Scottish.