He isn’t even pretending this is about anything beyond his own ego. I can’t wait for the day that it happens.
Freewhale98 on
1. Summary
Trump told Fox Business’s Larry Kudlow that he once had an “emergency call from, I believe, the prime minister of Switzerland, and she was very aggressive. Nice, but very aggressive.” He recalled that she repeatedly said, “we are a small country.”
“Again and again and again. I couldn’t get her off the phone,” the president continued. “So [the tariffs were] at 30 percent, and I didn’t really like the way she talked to us, and so instead of giving her a reduction, I raised it to 39 percent, and then I got inundated by people from Switzerland and I figured, ‘Do you know what? We’ll do something that’s a little bit more palatable.’”
2. How is this related to the sub
(1) Trade coercion: Americans are deploying “madman” tactics to intimidate its trade partners.
3. My opinion
Is Trump administration trying to force Swiss government for some sort of total surrender with its seemingly erratic tariff attacks ?
isummonyouhere on
snowflake
jinhuiliuzhao on
Tariffs… because he didn’t like “the way she talked”?
Excuse me, what?
And the kicker is all of this is being legally justified under the guise of “national security” and “emergency”…
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He isn’t even pretending this is about anything beyond his own ego. I can’t wait for the day that it happens.
1. Summary
Trump told Fox Business’s Larry Kudlow that he once had an “emergency call from, I believe, the prime minister of Switzerland, and she was very aggressive. Nice, but very aggressive.” He recalled that she repeatedly said, “we are a small country.”
“Again and again and again. I couldn’t get her off the phone,” the president continued. “So [the tariffs were] at 30 percent, and I didn’t really like the way she talked to us, and so instead of giving her a reduction, I raised it to 39 percent, and then I got inundated by people from Switzerland and I figured, ‘Do you know what? We’ll do something that’s a little bit more palatable.’”
2. How is this related to the sub
(1) Trade coercion: Americans are deploying “madman” tactics to intimidate its trade partners.
3. My opinion
Is Trump administration trying to force Swiss government for some sort of total surrender with its seemingly erratic tariff attacks ?
snowflake
Tariffs… because he didn’t like “the way she talked”?
Excuse me, what?
And the kicker is all of this is being legally justified under the guise of “national security” and “emergency”…