Trump Lies And Says China Is Paying For His $16 Billion Trade War Disaster Cover Up To Farmers
Trump lied and claimed that China is paying for $16 billion in disaster relief to farmers due to his trade war.
Trump lied and claimed that China is paying for $16 billion in disaster relief to farmers due to his trade war.
The “then what” is that Trump’s insistence he can make up the rules when he doesn’t own the ball is inflicting devastating damage on farmers and workers in the U.S. and on the U.S. economy overall.T
Trump started frantically retweeting himself as the stock market plummeted and no one believed his tariff lies.
Trump made several false claims about China paying tariffs, and tariffs boosting the US economy during a Monday Twitter lie spree.
President Donald Trump started off his Sunday morning with another assault on the media, which he thinks is treating him more unfairly than any other president in history. In a multi-tweet attack , the president called the press “ the most hostile and corrupt in the history of American politics,” and then listed off what…
Donald Trump, the self-proclaimed master negotiator, is not doing much to help the United States in trade negotiations with other countries. Under his leadership, the trade deficit in goods with China set a new record during his second year in office. This came despite his efforts to stop what he has claimed are Beijing’s trade …
Trump used to brag and take credit for the stock market daily, but the president has gone quiet as the market is dropping and his trade war is one of the reasons why.
Although President Donald Trump on Monday prematurely bragged about a new trade agreement between the US and Mexico , nothing has really been accomplished yet. This is just one more example of how Trump makes announcements of his supposed accomplishments which simply are not true. There is no new trade deal with Mexico, just as…
President Donald Trump went on Twitter Tuesday morning and angrily attacked the Koch Brothers, who have long been two of the biggest donors to the Republican Party. Trump’s attacks were a response to reports on Monday that the Kochs have become very critical of the president and they have started to withhold donations from pro-Trump…
Trump’s tariff on aluminum is projected to cost 20,000 Americans their jobs in beer-related industries and impose a beer tax each year.
Donald Trump showed up in Iowa today to try to paper over the damage his trade war is doing to the state, and his big plan appears to have been to throw some John Deere ripoff hats at people.
President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he thinks the United States and European Union should “drop all Tariffs, Barriers and Subsidies.” Trump’s tweeted suggestion came after he has proposed to put in place large new tariffs on imports into the United States from the European Union. “The European Union is coming to Washington tomorrow…
The Trump administration on Tuesday said it would provide up to $12 billion in aid for U.S. farmers to protect them from the adverse effects of trade disputes between the United States and China, the European Union and others. Republicans in the U.S. Senate immediately expressed outrage, saying the president was authorizing a “bailout” and…
The Washington Post has reported that Vice President Mike Pence’s hometown of Columbus, Indiana will be one of the hardest hit communities in the United States after President Donald Trump’s trade tariffs go into effect. According to the Post, the reason for this is that a Brookings Institution analysis found that Pence’s hometown is the…
In an editorial entitled The Trade Casualties Mount,” the editorial board of the conservative Wall Street Journal harshly criticized the trade policies of President Donald Trump and his trade representative Peter Navarro. According to the Journal, the Trump administration’s trade policies are already having a very negative effect on U.S. manufacturers as well as stifling…
United States trade officials on Tuesday published a new list of thousands of products imported from China that will be hit with new tariffs. The Trump administration wants impose an additional 10% import tax on hundreds of Chinese food products as well as tobacco, chemicals, coal, steel and aluminum. The total value of import items…
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) stabbed her Iowa farming constituents in the back as she cheered Trump’s trade war as farmers in her state face devastation.
To win election, Donald Trump positioned himself as a Washington outsider, as a candidate who would never take corporate money, and as a new type of political leader who would “drain the swamp” in Washington, D.C.. Instead, as everyone knows, Trump has been beholden to corporate interests and the Republican establishment in Washington which is…
In a wild morning tweet storm President Donald Trump complained about Democrats who are “weak on crime,” the Fake News, the infestation of MS-13 gangs, unfair trade deals, “Crazy Maxine Waters ,” and Nancy Pelosi. And as if that wasn’t enough, he also said that if it wasn’t for him the U.S. would now be…
According to the Washington Post, President Donald Trump is not backing down from his outrageous plans to impose massive tariffs on U.S. trading partners even though he is facing threats of retaliation from all of them. On Friday the European Union filed a 10-page submission with the United States Commerce Department warning the United States…
MSNBC’s Ali Velshi and CNBC’s John Harwood tear apart Trump’s trade war and explain why it is an idiotic fantasy that is going to harm consumers, workers, and the US economy.
Canada has retaliated in Trump’s trade war by slapping $12.5 billion in tariffs 80 US produced products including steel, coffee beans, toffee, and maple syrup.
On Friday Canada announced retaliatory tariffs against the United States while General Motors announced that Trump’s new tariffs would cause job cuts in the near future. In Ottawa, the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau released a list of new items that will be subject to import duties beginning in July. The items on the…
One thing lost in all the bad news for Donald Trump over the past week has been the looming trade war with China which has been called a “ticking time bomb” that is set to explode later this summer. However when it comes to the actual impact on people’s lives — especially millions of Trump…
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross failed to divest himself from his private company holdings upon entering government, according to a new investigative report from Forbes Magazine. After being nominated, Ross promised to divest from his investment holdings upon entering office. This earned him praise from senators in both parties, and he was easily confirmed. “You have…
Charles and David Koch have been the largest and most powerful financial backers of Republican candidates, but they will no longer support any candidate who supports President Donald Trump’s trade tariffs. If the Koch network pulls its financial support from Republicans and starts giving money to Democrats it could have a major impact on future…
Donald Trump was so anxious to brag about “his” latest job growth and unemployment numbers that he broke the law by tweeting about them before they were announced officially by the U.S. government. Not only does this show how ignorant Trump is about the operations of our government but it also shows that he…
“In trying to land a blow on the Canadian timber industry, Trump may have knocked out the Western coal industry … this could bring them to their knees.”
Trump makes a big deal of low economic growth in 2016 but that economic growth was growing in the last 3 months of the Obama presidency
Trump failed to get his Mexico-funded wall along the southern border, so now he’s threatening a trade war with our allies to the north.
Trump represents a risk to international economic conditions, and U.S. policy predictability has diminished raising the prospect of sudden changes with potential global implications.
Trump’s economic plan will confer vast monetary gains on the very wealthiest Americans while leaving Trump’s electoral base further behind.
Another highly-respected organization has warned the world about the global threat of a Trump victory in November.