Trump has since begun to soften some of the measures, granting exemptions for smartphones, semiconductors and electronics and claiming the US and China were in direct contact “every day”.

On Tuesday, the president said tariffs would come down “substantially” and a deal would be done “pretty quickly”.

But the Chinese foreign ministry on said any reports that China and the US were nearing a deal were “fake news”.

“There have been no consultations or negotiations between China and the United States regarding tariffs, let alone reaching an agreement,” said ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun.

This is classic Trump. Lie about how easy something will be and how great he’s making things, all while delivering horse shit and counting on your supporters to be too dumb to listen to what’s actually going on.

Ugh, my mom was telling me how great it was for Bill Maher to meet with Trump. I told her humanizing Trump wasn’t gonna help anyone, but she insisted it was great.

The president also has unchecked pardon power. He’s already shown he’s willing to use it to pardon people who tried to overthrow the government for him.

Throat GOAT Nancy Reagan was a hot blond bimbo?

Dude shit his pants. People were like “stop shitting your pants, you moron”. Dude wiped some of the shit out of his pants using his hand. Now his pants still smell like shit and he has shit all over his hands.

Fox News is like "great job not shitting your pants, Mr. President, you goddamn genius!”

This has me dying - nice job!

The White House has denied war plans were texted to the group, and Hegseth on Monday denied the reporting as well, calling Goldberg “a deceitful and highly discredited, so-called journalist who’s made a profession of peddling hoaxes time and time again.”

Fuck it, I say call their bluff and release it.

I was referring to this: https://youtu.be/ayBRXIN9Kro

Specifically Vance around 3:38

Lol I know, I was just thinking of Vance’s “have you even said ‘thank you’?”

I grew up and am still surrounded by these ingrates

Found JD Vance’s Lemmy account

Can’t wait for the Supreme Court to agree that since the 22nd Amendment doesn’t specify who enforces that the president can’t be elected, that it means Congress has to actively pass a law saying he can’t run.

That’s what ultimately happened with the Colorado case.

These people are getting paid since February 15th when they were fired. Meanwhile, many of these positions were being backfilled by air traffic controllers working overtime, most of the time not doing as well of a job as the person who was “fired” in the first place.

So to recap: Elon and Trump fired well qualified and necessary employees, continued to pay them after they left, then over paid someone else to do their job, but worse, making us all less safe and simultaneously overworking an already notoriously overworked group of ATCs who have one of the most stressful jobs in the world.

I dunno about you guys, but I’m not sure this Department of Government Efficiency is actually very efficient…

Could you imagine going back to work for a place that tried to fire you a few weeks ago? And is still actively appealing a court decision to try to fire you again?

Looks like TSLA is up 8% today. So seems to have solved Elon’s immediate problem of the stock tanking.

I’m also curious to see if Trump’s cult leader power can overcome decades of oil and gas brainwashing. Conservatives have proven they’ll quickly throw away their beliefs when Trump tells them to, but it’s not always reliable.

For example, in 2020 conservatives were all for Trump’s “Operation Warp Speed” to find a COVID vaccine. But as soon as Biden won and the vaccines rolled out in 2021, many conservatives took an antivax stance. Later, Trump got booed at one of his rallies for suggesting that people get vaccinated.

So he can steer the cult agenda, but not always successfully. I guess we’ll see how this plays out.

Unfortunately yes, our president is a moron.

Lol he’s so panicked he’s had to order Trump to send a tweet to try to convince right wingers to buy EVs now.

My brother is an Air Traffic Controller and we were talking about this earlier. New ATCs have months of training where they get paid terribly and have to live in Oklahoma City. Nowadays they don’t even get to choose exactly where they’ll work afterwards. There are some classes that graduate and then have to pick between something like working in San Juan or Oakland. And then their pay is also shit for a year or two until they fully qualify.

Could you imagine going to MIT, then saying “yeah I’ll take a job that pays $14 an hour training to live in Oklahoma. Then I’ll let you roll the dice and send me to live in Southern California and try to live off $36,000 a year. Or you know… I can just go take a job wherever the fuck I want as an MIT grad and get paid 6 figures right out the gate.”

The tussle ended with Trump intervening to tell Duffy to hire “geniuses” from MIT as air traffic controllers.

This is the most WTF line in this article.

His head in a basket would still be rich as hell