This isn’t really a story since they literally filed paperwork they were selling ahead of time like they are obligated to do.

Same thing with the UK deal…it’s just a framework but nothing is signed or agreed upon.

Gotta add his name to it so he knows, but I like it.

No that’s too nice he think that’s a compliment. Gotta be something like Trump’s Ego Grove or Blight House Gardens

Scott Bessent also has a Husband so kinda curious how he would feel if trump ever rotated to him to throw him under the bus.

Replace Texas with Tennessee for this article.

Ah man you are right. Rookie move on my part.

You left off Iran, Yemen, Gaza and Syria.

The author keys into some points critically important that most don’t think about. America imports more manufactured goods and raw materials than it exports. As the administration has endlessly gone on about. However, it exports more ‘services’ than any country in the world. I think Trump and Lutnick simply are assuming that won’t change or come under discussion. Most of these American ‘services’ exports are heavily advantaged in favour of American exporters to the UK and the EU. That’s because these ‘services’ are effectively not taxed, nor regulated. (With a few notable exceptions.) That’s because, in the EU particularly, there has historically been a deference to America—for implied military defense against Russian attack. The Oval office meeting w Zelensky, together with ignoring Denmark re: Greenland, and Canadian 51st state rhetoric has however finally started breaking the wall. Thereby freeing the UK and Europe to trend towards now taxing and regulating such American ‘services’. That will allow UK and EU competing ‘services’ to flourish. Because, essentially, the anti-circumvention laws, besides making certain American billionaires ridiculously rich, mainly serve to inhibit innovation.

They want to make an example of her to show how far they will go to get others to fall in line.

he’d declare “total victory” if import taxes were as high as 50% a year from now

“The country will be making a fortune,” Trump told Time, claiming businesses will reshore production to the United States, adding jobs and investment — a theory debunked by a large number of businesses and economists. “Oh, zero would be easy, but zero, you wouldn’t have any companies coming in. They’re coming in because they don’t want to pay the tariffs.”

That plan faces extreme challenges, including training American workers who have been hesitant to take factory jobs (the United States has nearly half a million open factory jobs it can’t fill, according to the Department of Labor’s latest job openings report). Also, tariffs themselves have made factory construction significantly more expensive. And even if businesses wanted to reshore production, that process can take years.

We live in the dumbest fucking timeline. He’s been obsessed with tariffs since the 80s and doesn’t understand the nuance you need to use them as an actual tool.