Donny came to power with the promise of making all the trade partners that US has that are not treating us fairly….then he took the throne and the retaliation started and has continued since January….that is about100 days of so….
We know who he has targeted the likes of China, Mexico, Canada, etc…..but now that it has started I would like to knbow just who the cheating bastards are…..how about you?
If you listen to President Donald Trump and his allies discuss his sweeping tariff plans, one word pops up a lot: “Cheating”. (That is the common theme)
When he unveiled his initial tariffs plan, Trump said, “For nations that treat us badly, we will calculate the combined rate of all their tariffs, non-monetary barriers and other forms of cheating.”
Over the next few days, other administration figures echoed the “cheating” accusation.
“Our leaders allowed foreign countries to rig the rules of the game, to cheat, to steal, to rob, to plunder,” White House adviser Stephen Miller said on April 4 on Fox News. “That has cost America trillions of dollars in wealth. … They’ve stolen our industries.”
The White House didn’t provide any evidence.
While cheating on trade does happen – genuine accusations of it can be adjudicated at the World Trade Organization – the White House’s formula for calculating tariff rates leaned on how much of a trade imbalance a country has with the US, not on evidence of cheating.
Trump and his allies “tend to use the term ‘cheating’ as any action by a foreign country that leads to a bilateral goods trade deficit with the US”, said Kent Jones, professor emeritus of economics at Babson College, who specialises in trade policy. “On the face of it, this definition has no economic validity, since bilateral trade balances are generally determined not by trade and other government policies, but by specific patterns of trade by commodity.”
Our analysis of the 10 countries with the highest announced tariff rates on April 2 showed they are largely poor and small – and it is these factors, rather than unfair trade practices, that made them susceptible to the highest rates. Such countries export the resources they have and are too small and too poor, or both, to buy much from the United States.
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025/4/10/fact-check-are-other-countries-cheating-the-us-on-trade
Trump’s formula is ridiculous. If they want to save money from cheats they could look at the overcharging by contractors for the defence industry.
That has been a problem ignored for many decades….they allow this by using ‘national security’ as an excuse. chuq
Leadership by chairs. Leadership that makes it up as they go along…alienating our allies, making friends with fellow Dictators, trying to shut down the press and target political opponents – and now threatening to invade peaceful countries…this is a very dark moment in our history – as was predicted before the election
I hate to say it but this was predicted by real Leftists in the 60s and 70s., chuq
He has recently said that everyone is soon going to have to choose between China and America. In that case, I choose China.
Best wishes, Pete.
I feel the same. chuq
Trump is a little boy who is out to “get even” for all the “wrongs” he believes were done to him over the years. The fact that he’s in a position of power has just expanded his area of revenge. Anyone who hasn’t noticed this by now must be living in underground quarters.
Or most likely brainwashed….chuq
There seems to be a lot of cave dwellers out there….chuq