Responding in good faith to other countries’ willingness to negotiate fair trade...

TheOtherHobbes · 2025-04-09T19:15:52 1744226152

It's interesting how person's nakedly obvious dump and pump corrupt opportunism is another's "responding in good faith."

The problem remains. Anyone who imports from China - which covers a lot of the economy - is screwed.

And Rest of World no longer trusts anything he says.

michaelmrose · 2025-04-09T19:32:54 1744227174

Good faith would have included

- not lying about tariffs being taxes on other countries that would replace us paying taxes

- not calling trade deficits tariffs and pretending to impose reciprocal tariffs

- negotiating ahead of time like normal people and clearly communicating the path forward

thfuran · 2025-04-09T19:16:02 1744226162

He is pathologically incapable of operating in good faith.

ajross · 2025-04-09T19:31:19 1744227079

> other countries’ willingness to negotiate fair trade terms

This is a fabricated justification. There has been literally zero public reporting of any trade negotiations post-tarifpocalypse. The only people saying there are deals being made are the White House, who have produce zero evidence of deals.

No, Trump was responding[1] to the movement of the market and in particular to the sudden spike in federal bond rates. This was absolutely not a win for Art of the Deal. There was no Deal.

[1] In "good faith", to be sure.

outer_web · 2025-04-09T20:29:36 1744230576

Bessent said this was the strategy from the beginning.