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    Wow. I used to think he just couldn’t stop lying about tariffs…

    But now I’m convinced he has NO idea what they are or how they work… NONE

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        “Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had.” - Professor William T. Kelley, Wharton School of Business and Finance

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          “This guy is a fucking Moron…”

          —Rex Tillerson, Trump’s handpicked (first) Secretary of State

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          and his dad the equally reprehensible fred trump, had to donate a significant amount to get him into his “2nd rate school”

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      That’s the thing about spending 70 years lying and having someone else fire anyone that disagrees…

      You start believing it all.

      Same shit happened to Elon and loads of other rich people, they stop getting real feedback and understanding that they’re being lied to.

      The honestly believe their own bullshit, and they just don’t know how to react to the truth.

      We saw it with the interview about the ms13 tattoo, trump doesn’t even know how to argue anymore, he’s used to everyone just agreeing with him, so when they don’t his only argument is “why aren’t you saying what I want you to say, do you not understand what I want you to say?”

      Because that’s the only time they hear what they dont want to; when the person talking to them is confused about what they want to hear

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      I was convinced of that from the start. The language he used, I’m pretty sure he’s under the impression that the country you levy a tariff against is the one that pays it. Basically “make Mexico pay for the wall” part 2.

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        Yep. Somehow, someway; he got the impression that because "goods from China " get hit, that China pays to send it here…

        And as someone else posted; he’s surrounded by people who ONLY agree with him. None of his people are correcting him…

        We’re so boned

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      he treats them like his court cases, he thinks tariffs are a way to bully people to do what you want. he has no idea the economic implications of it. also hes doing it as a behest to putin.

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        I think he at least roughly understands the economic implications, he just doesn’t care. He’ll just crack to the rhetoric, blame everyone else for the problems, and assume his fan base will eat up every word and let him continue.

        Falling that, he just goes all in on ignoring elections and count upon the system to let him do that like it’s a woman with a pussy to grab.