In all fairness, half the world hated you before. Now you just managed to convince the other half they were right.

it wasnt for nothing. it made stupid magats happy! and the world is now moving away from the usa as a trade partner.

sO mUcH WiNniNg

The good news is all that money you paid Is going straight out of the governments coffers and back to corporations with no obligation to pay you back.

Oh, also, you have a new hundred billion dollar hole in your budget because that was to pay for the billionaires tax cuts.

I lost my job because of cuts in May. I haven't been able to find full time employment since. I'm not sure I'm going to recover.

Untrue. We paid extra to fund tax breaks for billionaires while food prices tripled and 1,206,374 people were laid off in order to keep those record profits going.

Not that equalising the trade deficit would actually make everyone's lives better in any way because it's a stupid metric to be concerned with.

It's like being concerned at the supermarket never buys anything off you. If you voice that opinion in public people would think you were weird.

The rapists and their followers got richer though, and more authoritarian regimes are coming along nicely while cooperation and peace are suppressed

If it helps any, we don't hate Americans, by and large. We pity you. It's your leaders we hate.

We still got years more of this shit ahead of us too!

The thing is, in any somewhat sane and precedented administration, the argument could reasonably have been made that some economic struggles, even a year in, were largely due to polices of the previous administration.

The problem with this administration is, they literally did everything possible to fuck the economy up, pretty much from day one. Nearly every decision was a bad decision, which had specific and obvious ramifications on the economy. Chaos. Clown show. Chain saw. The current administration owns this shitty economy. They could have litterally sat around twiddling their thumbs doing absolutely nothing but eat hamburders and drink covfefe and the economy would be doing orders of magnitude better than it is now. Instead they decided tariffs and firings and tax cuts to the ultra rich were in order. So now this is all their fault. 100%.

Yeah, but now, Germany's best trading partner is China, which replaced the USA... Well done... Self-sabotage...

I can't keep watching people act surprised about this.

Trump's administration is not trying to successfully accomplish anything. The sole and entire point is to hurt America at the behest of foreign interests. Making the world hate us is the point.

And do understand:

The world hates you

Before most of the world hated you but the west sort of let your bullshit slide because the net avert outcome was great for them and fairly good for the rest of the world minus those countries being butt fucked by the US for reasons.

Now? Everyone hates you, your now ex-allies included. This will not go back to normal again ever. The USA, as you've known it, is over. Resistance is futile, so to speak, as you're now living in a fascist state that likely will nosedive into a fully blown dictatorship

Whenever (between now and the next 100 or so years) the US recovers, nldo not expect the rest of the world to stand ready with their asses up so that you can go continue fucking everyone. Either the US completely rebuilds it's political system from the ground up, jails those responsible for crimes committed in this past decade of trumpism, and switches to an actual democratic system, you can go fuck yourself and play with yourself because nobody will be playing with you ever again anytime soon

And even if we will play with you, it will never again be the same. You had the world at your feet, people were pushing US economy just because, and you fucked it all up next you couldn't keep your billionaires and racists in check.

How do you have a trade surplus in a consumer society? How do people not see how stupid the trade deficit excuse is? Are Americans that uneducated?

Not for nothing. Trump and his friends made butt loads of money!!! And any day that money is going to come trickling down to the average Joe just like it's supposed to... any day now.

Bunch of rich dudes got slightly richer like 12 days earlier than they would otherwise tho!

I mean, silver lining, the dollar was never gonna remain the reserve currency forever. Now that is just gonna happen before the middle of the 21st century, rather than sometime after it.

Depends on if you place value on eroding progressive values or not. Say what you want about this Trump presidency, but he's emboldened bigots to act on their values, and you can't take that away from him.

Cons: some of our finest work there, even if we do say so ourselves! And we do say so!

If the tariffs are paid for by other countries, why aren't they like the 999%? That would surely add quintillions to the economy /s

surprised pikachu face

There has got to be a long German word for the feeling which is essentially incandescent fury but at the same time sorrow/pity.