Trump Is Quickly Becoming the World's Kidney Stone [View all]

Trump Is Quickly Becoming the World’s Kidney Stone
THIS TOO SHALL PASS
The painful truth is that world leaders are being forced to go through the motions of making nonsense ‘trade agreements’ with the United States.
David Rothkopf
Updated Jul. 29 2025 11:16AM EDT
Published Jul. 29 2025 11:13AM EDT
Opinion


One by one, Donald Trump’s trade deals are bringing the world closer together.

Across our fractious planet on which division and conflict abound, everyone has found at least one thing they can agree upon: These deals are a disaster.

No one likes them. No one should.

They are anti-policy, the opposite of policy. They are born of no ideas, of a complete misunderstanding of history, economics and international affairs. They achieve nothing. They benefit no one. They cause only damage.

They are the work of a mad king surrounded by mad courtiers who seem committed to finding out what happens when ignorance, arrogance and incompetence are the only ingredients in an economic recipe.

For much of the world, the only comfort comes from the fact that the people who are footing the bill for Trump’s tariffs are the ones whose country elected Trump in the first place.

That’d be us. We’re the suckers.

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