"Doing right ain't got no end"
Posted on 05/17/2025 8:31:39 AM PDT by bitt
President Donald Trump demonstrated once again why he's the master of the art of the deal. During his trip to the Middle East, Trump made it clear that countries dragging their feet on trade negotiations are about to face the music. So far, the trade negotiations are going well, and the economic apocalypse that Democrats claimed was going to happen hasn’t. It's nothing new for Democrats to be wrong, and while they’re still harboring delusions that Trump is going to kill the economy, his latest move is likely to send them into a tailspin.
Trump isn't playing around. With over 150 countries clamoring to make deals with the United States, the president announced that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick will be sending letters to these nations in the coming weeks, essentially telling them that tariffs might rise again soon.
“We have, at the same time, 150 countries that want to make a deal, but you're not able to see that many countries," Trump said in Abu Dhabi on Friday. "So at a certain point, over the next two to three weeks, I think Scott and Howard will be sending letters out, essentially telling people — we'll be very fair — but we'll be telling people what they'll be paying to do business in the United States."
CNN has more.
Trump on April 9 paused his massive so-called reciprocal tariffs, which he announced on what he called “Liberation Day” on April 2. The reprieve was supposed to be for 90 days, to allow countries to negotiate with the administration. Trump officials have said around 100 countries have offered to negotiate deals, setting a tremendously difficult task before US trade negotiators to race against the clock to make new commitments.
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The world respects a strong American leader. Who cares if the rest of the world hates and mocks us. If they know the resident at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave means business they’ll stay in check. That hasn’t happened since Reagan was in office.
President Trump is incredible. He thinks at a scale that nobody else can touch. Tariffs, closing the border so quickly, strict law & order (homicides down SIXTY percent in Denver alone!), ending DEI, ending the ruination of womens’ sports by men; ending the virulent anti-Semitism on the “elite” campuses, firing Deep State people left and right, ending the gravy train to NGOs, thinking about adding US Territory either Greenland or Canada, radically changing income taxes, ending tax on social security and so much more.
It is just staggering what he can conceive of and execute. If only Congress and SCOTUS were on his side or could, at the least, get out the way.
I’m curious which Countries are dragging their feet.
Reality will pop them in the face.
They pretty much do no matter who is running the place.
If they know the resident at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave means business they’ll stay in check.
YUP!
Who cares if the rest of the world hates and mocks us.
Two words: “Nuclear F_____ Weapons!”
Fun havin’ a real President, Huh?
A lot of that is stuck in courts and may not happen.
But yet our GOPeahen “majority” in the House and Senate are beholden to the Blackmail Bank of America and do NOTHING.
I know. How sad is it that it won’t happen because of unelected judges.
And the favorite complaint of the commie kooks is “Musk wasn’t elected.”
“They do NOTHING.”
If only. They actively OPPOSE.
“”President Donald Trump demonstrated once again why he’s the master of the art of the deal. “”
Trump, showing the world how it’s done... if and when a leader is actually “for” the nation he is representing (foreign concept to the rabid, radical left). Meanwhile, the dolts that only get their “news” from the lying lamestream leftist media... see nothing but negativity and out-right lies against Trump and everything he says and does. And they, being the dumbed-down dolts that they are, believe it all.
We're very lucky.
Yeh...but he’s wearing me out.
I’m curious which Countries are dragging their feet.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Canada is one.
The PM is a scion of the davis /Gobaql Schwarming socilaista crowd, who has been preaching about substituting trade with the PACIFIC ( CHINA) AND WITH YERP TO SUBSTITUTE FOR US CANADA TRADE.
PM Carney is going to ruin Canada and turn it into a green nation without oil and gas, a perfect Utopia that exists on the level of a 3rd world economy.
IDIOTS!
Carney should be opening Canada to US products and abandoning the 70 years of high Canadian tariffs on US goods in order to protect non competitive Canadian industrialists who donate to his Liberal a$$ hat party ...CARNEY DOES NOT GIVE A DAMN ABOUT THE HUGE FINANCIAL BURDENS CANADIANS NOW BEAR WITH A HUGE DROP IN STANDARD OF LIVING. Carney and his cabinet are Biden style lefties that Canada has failed to run out of politics.
Canada i s dragging its feet so it can create a crisis and blame it all on Trump as the socialists use fear of poverty to increase their power nationally in Canada.
Canadians are lining up to emigrate Southward , they are political refugees of their own government.
Of all people Farrakhan described Trump as an anamoly. Anyone else would just run business as usual. Basically smile and look at camera ir frown if needed. The Bushes were crooked as a dogs hind legs. But i guess well i know we already be full commie if evil dems would have won
Democrats are trying to blame the tariffs for Joe Biden’s inflation.
Can be a little bit tiring.
It’s a war. Can’t quit till we win.
"Doing right ain't got no end"
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