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Peter Roest's avatar

Trump lied?!?!?! But that hasn’t happened since the last time he opened his mouth!!

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CK's avatar

Call out his MAGA and GOP supporters, too.

Call out his Dark Money sponsors who are profiting from the orchestrated chaos.

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Louise McDevitt's avatar

Stop letting him manipulate us with his lies. Call him out.

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Kathy Tankersley's avatar

But then we would need an actual functioning MSM, you know, actual journalists who take apart the rapey felon’s illogical and illegal proclamations and orders. The idiotic pundits and sane washers on media outlets have been useless tools for the republican/ magat propaganda parade for the past decade, paving the way for this disaster presidency and approving the grifting, scamming, and corruption being committed in our faces. Dems are calling out the truth, but lies and propaganda get the most attention, unfortunately and Americans can’t seem to tell the difference when they are being lied to.

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Louise McDevitt's avatar

Exactly. All of that is on my wish list. For now, all I can do is muster up some self accountability and continue to speak out. Spread more words for a healthy contagion.

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Patricia Baker's avatar

What about the damages done? What happens to the high tariffs already paid by American businesses? What happens to those dock workers fired by the first load of empty ships? What happens because of orders not placed?

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RickLoC53's avatar

What did tRump say? Something to the effect of “minor temporary disruptions for the greater good.” Wish he’d used that as a campaign slogan. We might still have the stable world economy that Biden left us!

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Alternative Lives R Available's avatar

90 days? That's about long enough to work out you'll need some stock or essential parts, specify them send the oder for quotes, choose a supplier, order the parts or goods, for them to make them for you and pack and ship them, and they arrive on the East Coast port and.......

..........Trump changes his mind again!

Not going to happen. Hardly anyone will want to place orders with China, and no one in China will want to make stuff for export to America, except through middlemen in other countries that guarantee the payments and carry the risk, but also add to the costs and complexity.

The markets will now know that American international trade with China is dead, stuffed and mounted in a glass case. Like a Dodo!

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Alexis's avatar

China has already pivoted to selling their stuff to all sorts of other countries who want it, they don’t need the United States for anything. But the United States NEEDS China, since that’s where most of the component parts they use for the manufacturing that they actually still do in the states comes from, And the 90 day pause isn’t gonna make China change its mind at all!

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Brett Binns's avatar

It is interesting to note that some trusted news sources are still looking at it as an actual agreement, for example, see https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/12/china-us-agree-pause-trade-war-trump.

What is the truth here? I want to see trusted references.

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Brett Binns's avatar

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/white-house-deal-china-chinese-call-consensus/story?id=121694971. This appears to be the "real" story. No "trade deal". "Consensus" to de-escalste indtead. Story above might be considered a fair reading of the situation.

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Perplexing Perspectives's avatar

Nooo ... Did Trump lie? I do not believe it!!

Oh wait ... reverse that: Did Trump EVER tell the truth?

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jonfury's avatar

Hocus Pocus, the wanna-be dick-tater, chump, is playing games that he has no idea or clue about. Chump is an out of control lunatic and is literally ruining lives and livelihoods! What a phukin arsonist. Please get rid of the lying bastard!

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The Left Is RIGHT NOW!'s avatar

He won't remember 90 seconds from now let alone a 90 day pause...why are we not stopping him. How bad does it have to get?

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Alexandra Barcus's avatar

Crap. I am so worried about all the small businesses. I assume too shelves will remain empty. Prices will go up in case the tariffs go into effect. And there will be market volatility. After the UK and China, will anyone bother to try to make “deals”? What’s the point? And Trump may change his mind at any minute.

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Muriel Branch's avatar

Breaking News! Trump breathed!

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Linda irene peterson's avatar

Surprised ? He is a proven lying liar 🤥

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Bobby D Keeland's avatar

Did anyone truly expect anything else from the President of Stupidity.

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Mary K. Vincent's avatar

Trump wants to be seen as “King of the Deal.”

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Steve Shaffer's avatar

What Trump has really done is raise American taxes by $115 Billion dollars without representation. This is on top of the $373 Billion he already taxed us for the rest of the worlds goods. Roughly $3500 /per household. The largest tax increase in history all without representation.

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Antonio Perez's avatar

I agree it's also because his rating numbers have plummeted

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