They compete for anatomy licking, praising the orange anus without fail. Lutnick continues to say that there will be tons of trade deals and the US people will love them all. Just like "90 days 90 deals". But July 9 has passed.

People can already see that export markets are not opening up, they are closing down. When a country can't sell its products in the biggest market (US), they can't buy from the US. tRump, the self-described economic genius, can't see what Henry Ford saw: if you take care of the prosperity of your workers, they can buy your product. Same goes for the suppliers.

tRump thinks he is creating jobs by onshoring. His tariffs are high on apparel manufacturing countries. Good ole maga boys don't want those jobs, which take stability and a lot of time to onshore. Look forward to shelves particularly bare of toys and clothing. Unsatisfied demand increases inflation.

Canada, Brazil, and the EU are all making deals around the US, not with the US.

...tariffs and the threat of them will have some of the positive impacts the Administration hopes they will. America is a huge economic power in today's world and certainly has a lot of leverage and economic cards to play here. Any country or market where America buys a lot of goods is vulnerable to changes in American trade policy, and they may very well want to find ways to open their markets to more American goods in the interest of their own market stability. That could be a good thing for segments of the American economy.

But the truth is also that it will not work out in exactly the way anyone predicts. Much like the weather, the global economy is a complex system of inputs and outputs that are linked in a myriad of ways that no one fully understands. The impact of changing those inputs and outputs are only known after they change--sometimes long after.

One thing that is predictable, however: the rich will get richer. And it is entirely unclear if that will mean anything positive for the average American or not. China did not really become a global powerhouse because of U.S. trade policy. Its rise was driven by their focus on creating a manufacturing base with access to both cheap labor and raw materials that was attractive to American companies seeking maximum profit. Corporations didn't lobby writ large to keep jobs in America--quite the opposite.

So now one can easily see a scenario where the American manufacturer with a patent on a product they've designed and contracted a manufacturing facility in China to produce on their behalf gets new markets opened up for them by American trade policy, and they just divert more of those same products made in the same Chinese factories to their newfound global markets rather than bothering to even ponder opening an American manufacturing facility.

So, we may not know how this will play out, but we can fairly easily predict who the biggest winners will be no matter what happens.

How easily Americans are being duped that the country exporting goods to the US are paying the higher costs, when the opposite is actually true. American consumers are being forced to pay the higher costs as markets close for American manufacturers.

Take the Farmers of this country, as well as the Corporate farms. NO workers and NO markets to sell their crops means prices go up and product shortages. Why is that so hard to comprehend? Perhaps Americans prefer to be LIED to so that they have something to pin on Democrats and continue to vote for Republicans.

Talk about a fucking circus!

When asked if they will cause prices to rise at the store level, he just ignores the question and says "well if they bring production home to the US, there will be no tariff".
What boggles my mind is that the MAGAites think that we can just snap our fingers and boom we have fully operational factories in the US for all consumer products, from automobiles to textiles, and everything in between.

still claiming that the other countries are paying the tariffs, not the US consumers. If asked about it, he just answers a different question that wasn't asked.