Summary
Trump had to reverse his aggressive tariff rhetoric after CEOs from Walmart, Target, and Home Depot warned of empty shelves and higher prices due to supply chain disruptions.
Investors reacted negatively to his threats against Fed Chair Jerome Powell, prompting a market sell-off.
Trump backtracked, expressing optimism on a China trade deal and now denying plans to fire Powell.
Global markets remain volatile, and the IMF cited Trump’s trade war as a “major negative shock” to global growth.
Trump provided China an excellent excuse to start a trade war and look like the heroes while doing it. This is absolutely Trump’s fault, but China has no reason to not take full advantage of it.
TBF we already started it ourselves
That’s true. The US has been interfering in other country’s domestic affairs for decades. Organising the odd coup, overthrowing elected leaders. Suddenly people are shocked to learn that it can work both ways.
A country with strong democratic institutions are pretty resilient to these tactics. You might not trust the politicians, but you trust the officials, the military and the courts.
It seems that the US has dismantled trust in these institutions for a long time. It has let corporations run the show. So Russia and China have an easier task.
That’s a bit tautological, like “It they could break it, it needed fixing anyway.”
And that’s a bit too much like “If Hitler could invade France, it’s the French’s fault for not fighting back harder.”
Russia has been at war against the American people since Putin and traitorous US oligarchs imposed Trump on us in his first term. It’s victim-blaming to say that’s the American people’s fault.
Ah, yes, the famous denial of fascists in your own country.
YOU VOTED IN TRUMP WITH A MAJORITY KNOWING HE IS FASCIST.
This is squarely the fault of the American people. Lack of education and political will might be to blame, but to say that you are victims is such a farce that I don’t believe you live in reality.
He won by razor thin margins and many didn’t even vote. So yeah, most Americans are victims here.
A minority didn’t vote for trump, which is what you meant to say, I think. And those who didn’t vote might as well have voted for him. Genocide protest or not, your country didn’t care and is not educated enough to care about fascism.
Such selfishness has never been seen before in a people as what is seen in the USA. Trump is the result of this lack of caring for others. This is why you don’t have universal healthcare or other such services.
If you had any empathy as a nation, you would still be the greatest on the planet. How far you have fallen in such a short time.
Karma, unfortunately, is real, and your chickens have come home to roost.
$7.25/hrs minimum wage in the richest country on the face of the earth shows how much you guys really care about each other.
I could go on, but it wouldn’t motivate you enough to revolt, so why would I bother.
You are a nation of temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
I’m not sure your allegory is very apt.