It’s the economy, stupid” is a catchphrase that means that the primary concern of American voters is the state of the American economy, and how the economy affects their personal finances. – W –
Donald Trump just blinked. In a long winded post on Truth Social, 47 just issued a 90-day pause on the tariffs he imposed. Just last night the cock was crowing loudly about how countries were kissing his ass, begging him to make a deal.
These countries are calling us up. Kissing my a**. They are dying to make a deal,” Trump told a group of Republicans on Tuesday evening, hours before the tariffs were set to take hold. He described foreign leaders essentially groveling to avoid the new tariffs: “Please, please sir, make a deal. I’ll do anything sir.”
“There are voices in the White House that want high tariffs forever. There are angels and demons sitting on President Trump’s shoulders,” Texas Sen. Ted Cruz posted on X.
“Who does he listen to? I hope he listens to the angels.”
After days of criticism from some of his closest allies over his tariff strategy, Trump on Tuesday made clear he was confident in his decisions.
“I know what the hell I’m doing,” he told the GOP crowd.
‘They ripped us off left and right. But now it’s our turn to do the ripping,’ Trump said Tuesday night.
In the hours leading up to the massive financial shock, Trump showed no willingness to back down, and was instead gloating about how other countries were coming to the U.S. to beg.
A SOULLESS RICH GUY: ‘Trump, in his soul, is a rich guy with rich friends who loves rich people and successful American stories. So the last thing he wants is to lose his entire base of rich friends because he’s devastated their fortunes with this move,’ said Kelly.
In six to 10 months, if the economic picture does not improve, Kelly predicts that Trump will back off his bravado, as only Trump can – by claiming success.
‘I do think to judge whether the tariffs have been a success or a failure, we will need to look beyond Trump,’ Kelly said. ‘I think Trump will declare them a success no matter what, and we’ll need to have objective economic indicators.’
However, until that time, Trump won’t blink, according to Kelly. In fact, she believes he’d be willing to compromise political expediency in pursuit of this policy.
‘I don’t feel like he’ll be as invested in making sure Republicans keep the White House when he leaves [office] as your average politician might be,’ she concluded. – Megan Kelly.
Megan was wrong, Trumped blinked in less than a day, Trump played chicken with the world and lost. The China-America trade war will continue, but Donny bit off way more than he can chew by listening to morons instead of geniuses. In other words, by listening to himself.
He will spin it as a victory, but the bravado from last night is nowhere to be seen. This is going to hurt him in more ways than one. The impenetrable aura of invincibility just shattered into a million little pieces.
The Emperor is naked and everybody can see it. A few fools won’t admit the obvious, but the majority understand that Trump is not infallible. Too much power in the hands of one person is not a good thing, particularly not if they are slightly mad.
THE COCKED CROWED A THIRD TIME: The game of chicken, also known as the hawk-dove game or snowdrift game, is a model of conflict for two players in game theory. The principle of the game is that while the ideal outcome is for one player to yield (to avoid the worst outcome if neither yields), individuals try to avoid it out of pride, not wanting to look like “chickens”. Each player taunts the other to increase the risk of shame in yielding.
However, when one player yields, the conflict is avoided, and the game essentially ends.
The name “chicken” has its origins in a game in which two drivers drive toward each other on a collision course: one must swerve, or both may die in the crash, but if one driver swerves and the other does not, the one who swerved will be called a “chicken”, meaning a coward; this terminology is most prevalent in political science and economics. – Wiki –
PEPE THE SMUG YIP: – Elon Musk took a victory lap Wednesday after President Donald Trump put a 90-day pause on his sweeping reciprocal tariffs. The richest man in the world whose top businesses rely on international trade and cooperation was not shy about his opposition to Trump’s tariff proposal. He even got into a public days-long spat with the tariff plan architect and top White House economic advisor Peter Navarro over their opposing views on imposing massive tariffs on nearly every country.
Trump announced last week during his ‘Liberation Day’ event his plans to impose upwards of 100 percent tariffs on foreign nations – with China topping the list at 104 percent economic sanctions. But over the weekend, Musk fought to dissuade the president from going forward with it.
And on Wednesday afternoon, Trump stunned when he posted to Truth Social his pause on implementation of the tariffs, claiming 75 countries had contacted the White House to reach a mutually beneficial deal.
Musk was smug, posting a version of Pepe the Frog in response to the latest news.
The popular internet meme frog character was wearing an American Flag themed superhero costume and holding a video game controller. The X boss posted a winking face emoji as the caption of the meme image.
Pepe the Frog became a popular meme among the alt-right and internet trolls. In the 2016 presidential election, the meme was connected to Trump’s campaign. Just a month before the election that year, Trump retweeted a Pepe representation of himself.
FORK IN THE ROAD: Senator Ted Cruz has just spoken to Fox News about this huge announcement from President Trump.
Cruz, a close ally of Trump, had previously been somewhat critical of high tariffs and said he hoped they were short-lived. Today, Cruz tells Fox that the president was facing a “fork in the road”. One path, Cruz says, was to use the threat of tariffs to negotiate new trade deals. The other path was to leave high tariffs in place in perpetuity.
“That path is a terrible path,” Cruz tells Fox – adding that he believes Trump has chosen the best option. Cruz says he spoke with the president for an hour last night and urged him to take the path of lowering tariffs.
Trump is asked the U-turn on his policy. The president said previously that there would be no pause in the tariffs, but today announced a 90-day pause. “You have to have flexibility,” he says.
PANICAN: President Donald Trump said he put a 90-day pause on his global tariffs because people were ‘getting yippie’ about it. Stock markets tanked after Trump started his trade war and the president admitted he had been watching.
‘I thought that people were jumping a little bit out of line. They were getting yippie, you know, getting a little bit yippie, a little bit afraid,’ he said at the White House during an event honoring car racing champions.
Trump appeared to be referring to the ‘yips’ – when golfers start twitching and missing putts. He added: ‘The bond market is very tricky. I was watching it. But if you look at it now, it’s it’s beautiful. The bond market right now is beautiful. But yeah, I saw last night where people were getting a little queasy.’ – DM –
It seems to me that Donald was the one getting yippie. Did he PANICAN? From I know what the hell I’m doing, to you have to have flexibility. Just own it bro, the crash scared the shit out of you. Why were GOP Senators celebrating when you announced the pause? Because you were destroying America, the dollar, people’s savings, and the global economy.
JUBILATION DAY: – GOP senators said there was cheering and clapping and “a lot of smiles” when the 90-day pause on tariffs was announced during their lunch Wednesday, and defended the president’s decision to pause the tariffs, despite publicly doubling down on them for days.
Sen. Mike Rounds told reporters, “I think it really lightened up the lunch discussion.”
Sen. John Cornyn said he thinks the pause allows people some sense of relief. When asked about the mood in the room when the news was revealed, and whether there was relief, Cornyn replied, “Jubilation was too strong a word but it was positive.”
Sen. Ron Johnson, who has expressed concern about how tariffs will affect his constituents in Wisconsin, said senators in the lunch were “happy” to see markets start going up, and that he felt relieved.
Sen. John Kennedy added that, “Most people were pleased.”
It will be fascinating to watch the dynamic between Trump and Musk play out over the next few weeks. Both flew too close to the sun, Musk in Wisconsin, and Trump’s stupid tariffs. Although the young pretender did stand up to 47 when very few others did. He openly challenged the alpha dog’s authority, and in this instance, can now post Pepe memes to celebrate his temporary victory.
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