Are We Feeling Liberated Yet? - Trump thread #141

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King Donald has bigly new tariffs, First Lady Elmo turns out to be ballot box poison and 'Pick Me Girl' Vance is a meanie to the EU.

(But at least the penguins on the Heard and McDonald Islands are wearing suits)

Previous thread:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5297058-trumpmusk-the-doge-and-pony-show-continues-trump-thread-140

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/apr/08/eu-drops-plans-to-hit-american-bourbon-with-retaliatory-tariffs

The French government, which has been calling for a tough response to US tariffs, feared damage to its drinks industry, as one champagne maker warned it would be “game over” for the US market if 200% tariffs came to pass.

Hopeless.

World salad again no doubt.

I think coal is going to be declared a mineral ….so that some restrictions can be bypassed 🤔

Watching live now. Man he fucking loves walking out to the music and the standing ovation doesn’t he 🙄

Oh fuck me, “beautiful clean coal”. Please let this hell end.

I think that exporters are going to have to look to export their goods to a wider number of countries instead of putting their eggs in a large US shaped basket.

Spread the risk of relying on an unreliable country.

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lmdc4hyqkb27

Trump: "One thing I learned about the coal miners -- that's what they want to do. You could give them a penthouse on 5th Avenue and a different kind of a job and they'd be unhappy. They want to mine coal. She was gonna put them in a high tech industry where you make little cell phones and things."

Waffling nonsense, and what has he done with his hair

"Donald Trump has turned to addressing criticism of his tariff policy, saying that the United States is making $2bn a day in tariffs"

But who is paying them?

It's definitely not the country that is doing the exporting.

So where is that £2000 million a day coming from?

Could it be....the American consumer or the American importer?

But....but...I thought he wanted manufacturing of cell phones to come back to the USA?

Or could it be imaginary money, found only in the mango moron’s head?

Maybe someone should ask him or Leavitt how the USA is making £2 billion a day from tariffs?

Where is that money coming from? Are other countries £2 billion poorer?

At least one of those coal miners looks like he doesn't want to be there

"Donald Trump is now criticizing the Green New Deal and saying that climate change will create more “waterfront property.”

Seriously?

wtf?!!

Trump signs an executive order ending "woke policies that discriminate against secure sources of power, like coal and other fossil fuels"

He's cross because Trump said he doesn't want a penthouse apartment on 5th Avenue, and he does!

I am sure he voted for Trump in order to get that apartment as well

Chinese AI Generated piss take of US manufacturing

https://bsky.app/profile/youranoncentral.bsky.social/post/3lmdevbne7s2e

https://www.joe.co.uk/politics/trumps-tariffs-policy-based-on-a-book-his-son-in-law-saw-on-amazon-482652

Donald Trump’s disastrous tariffs policy is based on a book his son-in-law saw on Amazon

Love that last little touch where they're screwing phones together 😂

Trump told a dinner with fellow Republicans on Tuesday night that countries were “dying” to make a deal. The US president said: “I’m telling you, these countries are calling us up kissing my ass.”

He's finally on his own little Cloud 9 isn't he? Every headline contains his name, nearly every world leader is genuflecting before him, each new illegal grift is pouring $$$ into his tiny hands.
And apparently no one has the wherewithal to stop him.

"I'm not doomscrolling. I'm just scrolling and doom keeps happening."

Just came across this (TDS being redefined).

Grifter-In-Chief... As predicted on the previous thread.

Trump White House will put sponsor’s name on Easter Egg Roll for $200,000.
Pitch document breaking with tradition raises new concerns over administration’s links to corporate backers.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/24/trump-sponsors-easter-egg-roll

The psychology of dominance in narcissistic people:

https://bsky.app/profile/m-b-petersen.bsky.social/post/3lmemitwiik2k

.... "Our research have documented that dominance can lead to extreme destructive outcomes. When dominance-oriented individuals feel they are stuck in the status hierarchy, a "need for chaos" is elicited: A desire for destruction in the hope that you will prevail in the resulting chaos. ..."

Meanwhile, Usha Vance says her husband is oh so lonely 😭

https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/usha-vance-jd-wife-family-wfg7026tb

China to impose an additional 84% tariff on the US. This trade war is hotting up.