President Donald Trump has floated cutting tariffs on China from 145% to 80% ahead of a weekend meeting as he looks to deescalate the trade war.

President Donald Trump on Friday floated cutting tariffs on China from 145% to 80% ahead of a weekend meeting among top U.S. and Chinese trade officials as he looks to deescalate the trade war.

  • ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    19 hours ago

    So, was this always just the best possible narrative spin for Trump to do some open market manipulation and make him and his peers even richer or is Trump stupid enough to believe the nonsense he was fed and regurgitated to his followers?

    • phdepressed@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      17 hours ago

      Both. He knows it made him richer and he’s enough of an egomaniac to believe it does what he says it would do just because he said it. Now he’s richer and he’ll believe this was his plan all along because a narcissist is never wrong to themselves, hes already been blaming Biden about any negative economic news.