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    12 hours ago

    Trump will use any tariff profits to bail out farmers and other industries impacted

    I remember when UK right wing lying populist Boris Johnson (who only really cares about himself) promised to bail out farmers and other industries adversely affected by his insane isolationist Brexit policy.

    Here’s US right wing lying populist Donald Trump (who only really cares about himself) and you think he’s gonna bail out farmers and other industries adversely affected by his insane isolationist global trade war policy?

    Why would he do that?

    What have farmers got to offer Trump?

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      2 hours ago

      Why would he do that?

      It’s not why, but when. He already did this during his first term, the first time he started a trade war with China (which he lost).

      He didn’t bail out the farmers because he actually cares about them, but because there was an election in 2020 that he was trying to win and needed their support.

      Remains to be seen if he will bother to help them again this time. He’s talking about a 3rd term and other frightening shit, but his second term has been moving so fast that I’d like to think he doesn’t care about what the public thinks anymore, he just wants to extract as much value of of the position as possible.

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      11 hours ago

      Yeah, a Trump never pays his bills, so why would he start paying other people’s bills?

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        2 hours ago

        Trump didn’t pay them, the American public did with the tariff revenue. He has absolutely no qualms spending other people’s money on stupid shit, especially if it makes him look good in their eyes. He would never directly pay for anybody’s relief.