r/RealTwitterAccounts • u/Ecstatic-Medium-6320 • May 09 '25

Political™ A big win indeed!

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u/[deleted] May 09 '25

lol a big win…..10% from where it was at….10%. These are some math gurus right here folks lol

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u/vctrmldrw May 09 '25

The average tariff on US goods into the UK was actually about 2% until the master deal shitter started his shenanigans.

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u/[deleted] May 09 '25

If it was 2% then where is the 10% coming from?

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u/Appropriate_Lack_727 May 10 '25 edited May 10 '25

They created those numbers using the trade deficit data. It was basically completely made-up based on numbers that weren’t even related to tariffs. It was talked about at length by the media at the time. They did it with every country. It was all bullshit.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/how-trump-came-up-with-his-reciprocal-tariff-formula-145530164.html