The art of spoiling Trump's deal: Sit back and wait

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The art of spoiling Trump's deal: Sit back and wait
It doesn't even take that long. Just look at how quickly he caved on his China tariffs

By Lucian K. Truscott IV
Columnist
Published May 14, 2025 5:45AM (EDT)


(Salon) It seems to have been going on much longer, but it has been only one month since Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day,” when he did his big reset on the world’s economy by raising tariffs on goods exported to this country to 10 percent, with higher “reciprocal” tariffs of up to 50 percent on 57 countries. The tariffs were supposed to take effect on April 9, but Trump chose that day to suspend for 90 days all the reciprocal tariffs except those on China, which he raised to 145 percent, because, he said on Truth Social, China had been “ripping off the U.S.A.”

Fifty-seven countries and the rest of the world had waited, and Trump caved, a grand total of seven days after stock markets around the world crashed and the dread “R” word, recession, began being uttered by cable news hosts and hitting newspaper headlines.

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I’ll give you two guesses who had the upper hand in Geneva. I take that back: one guess. The answer should give you a hint why it took only two days for an agreement to be reached. Let’s allow U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer to explain: “It’s important to understand how quickly we were able to come to an agreement, which reflects that perhaps the differences were not so large as maybe thought,” he explained on Monday.

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Waiting will get you a lot when you’re dealing with Donald Trump. Just ask Vladimir Putin. Trump flapped his jaws for months on the campaign trail saying he would end the war in Ukraine on “day one.” Near the end of the campaign, he started saying he would end it before he was inaugurated. .................(more)

https://www.salon.com/2025/05/14/the-art-of-spoiling-deal-sit-back-and-wait/

[underpants]

1. His first word is never his last word. He just rattles off some uninformed BS

and then his short attention span takes over.