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Bessent’s Mar-a-Lago tariff message to Trump: zero in on the endgame
CNN ^ | Kevin Liptak, Alayna Treene and Pamela Brown

Posted on 04/07/2025 6:41:53 PM PDT by Redmen4ever

It was imperative to get the administration’s tariff communications aligned, Bessent told Trump, and more focused on the endgame for Americans: better trade deals with foreign nations, according to people familiar with the conversation.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: bessent; commerce; economy; tariffs; trade; trump
Not sure what's the end-game. Is it to use the threat of tariffs to actually lower tariffs; or, is it to raise tariffs.

Looks like a lot of countries are willing to go to no tariff. Looks like maybe even the EU. Man, I remember the run-around the EU gave both Obama and Trump (during his first term).

Whatever you think about tariffs or about Trump's style of bargaining, Donald Trump is a man on a mission. A whirlwind. This could be a big win for free trade; or, a real disaster.

1 posted on 04/07/2025 6:41:53 PM PDT by Redmen4ever
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To: Redmen4ever

Tariffs are here to stay at some level, that’s how you reindustrialize and keep your industry, it’s also how you replace the income tax.

Bessent needs to shut up and obey Trump.


2 posted on 04/07/2025 6:46:45 PM PDT by Farcesensitive (K is coming)
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To: Redmen4ever

1. Tariffs against low-wage countries can have the result of getting companies that would have manufactured in those countries to manufacture in America instead.

2. Tariffs against high-wage countries can have the result of getting those countries to lower their tariffs and ideally result in a zero tariffs trade relationship with those countries.


3 posted on 04/07/2025 6:48:15 PM PDT by Arcadian Empire (The Baric-Daszak-Fauci spike protein, by itself, is deadly.)
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To: Redmen4ever
 
 
big win for free trade
 
Fair trade - that's the goal. "Free trade" was a friendly sounding term to distract from the fact of how the US was getting the short end of the stick in international commerce. That crap is about to get re-aligned.
 
 

4 posted on 04/07/2025 6:49:31 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: Redmen4ever

I think both are true. Raise rates on China. Low rates on our friends and allies. Eventually.


5 posted on 04/07/2025 6:50:56 PM PDT by maro (MAGA!)
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To: Redmen4ever

What’s the point of the CNN article?

Bessent and Trump have achieved miraculous things today. This must really piss off the enemedia.


6 posted on 04/07/2025 6:54:26 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Nobody elected Elon Musk? Well nobody elected the Deep State either.)
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To: Farcesensitive

The in-between period needs to be addressed:

If America is dependent on Product A from Country 1, and a tariff is placed on Product A from Country 1, then Americans will be paying more for Product A until a deal is made that ends the tariff or an alternative source of Product A is in place.

That in-between period can cost elections.

That doesn’t mean don’t do tariffs.

It does mean that the in-between period has to be addressed, say by a refundable tax credit for all American citizens this year and next year, so that it doesn’t cost elections.


7 posted on 04/07/2025 6:55:05 PM PDT by Arcadian Empire (The Baric-Daszak-Fauci spike protein, by itself, is deadly.)
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To: Farcesensitive

>> Bessent needs to shut up and obey Trump.

“...according to people familiar with the conversation.”

Consider perhaps not believing every made-up assertion that issues from the four or five progressive authors of each MSM agitprop piece.


8 posted on 04/07/2025 6:59:12 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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To: Redmen4ever

For the moment Dow futures are up 730points. We’ll see in the morning.


9 posted on 04/07/2025 6:59:37 PM PDT by chuck allen
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To: maro

friends and allies? Who are they?


10 posted on 04/07/2025 7:01:00 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Farcesensitive

Put a sock in it Sparky Noob.🤡
Trump 🇺🇸


11 posted on 04/07/2025 7:04:04 PM PDT by MotorCityBuck (Keep the change, you are filthy animal! Re )
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To: maro

friends and allies, no such thing.


12 posted on 04/07/2025 7:07:04 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Redmen4ever

Tucker’s interview with Sec Bessent explains it all very logically.


13 posted on 04/07/2025 7:11:07 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Arcadian Empire

Product A is available from many countries.


14 posted on 04/07/2025 7:13:06 PM PDT by Bobbyvotes (I am in mid-80's and I am not gonna change my opinions.)
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To: Farcesensitive

Never believe anything CNN has to say at face value.

All they are trying to do here is drive a wedge between President Trump and Secretary Bessent.


15 posted on 04/07/2025 8:22:58 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Trump has all the right enemies, DeSantis has all the wrong friends.)
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To: Redmen4ever

I never believe a word CNN says, soooo..


16 posted on 04/07/2025 8:35:22 PM PDT by Az Joe (We can't spare President Trump; He fights!)
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To: Nervous Tick

“ Consider perhaps not believing every made-up assertion that issues from the four or five progressive authors of each MSM agitprop piece.”
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Thank you. OUR folks need to be more attuned to THEIR tricks and attempts to manipulate, IMHO.


17 posted on 04/07/2025 11:45:45 PM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
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FR thread——Tariffs Also Counter foreign VAT Taxes, Currency
Manipulation, Dumping, Export Subsidies, Fake Standards

On FNC’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” White House senior economic counselor Peter Navarro explained the long-term implications for the Trump administration’s tariffs and how they will function to ensure fair trade for the United States.

“Let’s not forget, every economic report that’s been coming out in the last month has been pushing us towards expansion and strength,” Navarro said. “And we just had a blowout jobs number on Friday, 228,000 jobs. That was 50 percent higher than was predicted.”

“There’s cognitive dissonance between what the media is saying, that Pres Trump wants to push us into recession, and what’s actually happening. The tariff and trade policy is just one chapter in a book that contains all these other beautiful things that we’re going to do. If you just take, for example, the oil prices, oil prices were a dollar higher during the Biden years. For a commuting, working family, that’s about $1,000 worth of gas prices they had to pay. We’re going to get that back for them.”

“Tariff revenues, $600 billion, $700 billion annually, are going to raise $6 trillion to $7 trillion over the 10-year period. They’re going to help pay for the tax cuts. I will tell you this. Every single dollar that comes in, in tariff revenues that we take from the foreigners who have been cheating us are going to go right to the American public in terms of tax cuts and debt reduction.”


18 posted on 04/07/2025 11:47:21 PM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray...."Our Father, who art in heaven......")
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To: Redmen4ever

From where I sit, I think it unwise to 2nd guess Trump, but then what do I know? When I keep hearing how this, that and the other things are something we’ve never seen before, I hesitate to pass judgement.


19 posted on 04/08/2025 3:28:05 AM PDT by equaviator (If 60 is the new 40 then 35 must be the new 15.)
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