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Trump threatens new tariffs on smartphones days after exempting them (www.bbc.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by RockBottom to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://metawire.eu/post/28912

President Trump says Chinese-made electronics are simply moving to a different levy "bucket".

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[–] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 64 points 2 weeks ago

Very stable genius

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 47 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

He excluded Smartphones because Apple (who donated to his campaign) asked for it, I think they've realized they could just straight up ask him to tariff their competition away.

[–] glitch1985@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

What competition does Apple have that still has a tariff? I'm a little surprised he didn't just come out and EO a program where any company that contributes X amount of dollars is exempt. Make Samsung pay also.

[–] arakhis_ 38 points 2 weeks ago

[–] zephorah@lemm.ee 30 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Dementia. Allegedly.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, though he calls it “the weave”

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 27 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Trump is dumber than a bucket of hair.

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I could imagine a few smart uses for a bucket of hair. How about "dumber than a potassium umbrella"?

[–] entwine413@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'd go with, dumber than a thermite firesafe.

[–] thetreesaysbark@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

Surely chocolate teapot is th classic. Although that tastes good - I'd wager Trump does not.

[–] leaky_shower_thought@feddit.nl 11 points 2 weeks ago

in my headcanon, Xi didn't call so his plans to announce a china-self-made-"deal" didn't follow through.

this is another tantrum.

[–] LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

Babe wake up it’s robo-Trump’s 10th term and stocks are still sinusoidal

[–] phoenixarise@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

I’m so tired of this.

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Dementia here we come

[–] harmsy@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

Yet again he proves this true:

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 weeks ago

brrr line goes down the hole tomorrow

[–] kazerniel@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

trump .0002 seconds after crashing the economy

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

The only good thing that came out of the Trump tariff is the volatility index going up!

[–] amadeus84@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

Its obvious here. He threatens corporations who dont submit to the regime. If you play ball then he undoes it. This is all consolidation of his illusion of power. I say illusionn because these people live in a state of Mind that most of us will fortunately never experience. .