so how is Trump threatening tariffs to trim the trade deficit working out?
Census:
The advance international trade deficit in goods increased to $153.3 billion in January from $122.0 billion in December as imports increased more than exports.
January 2025: +25.6° % Change
December 2024: +17.3° % Change
The felon-in-chief, never willing to brook any resistance, any contradiction, invited the President of a country at war to the White House, intent on telling that President that he has no choice but to prostrate himself before his enemy. The felon-in-chief met resistance; he threw a tantrum.
And Vance? “You haven’t sucked up to us enough.” Yeah, the sucking up is really critical to U.S. interests. Not democracy. Not the system of international law we sponsored. Ugh.
The mineral deal was advertised as the focus of this disastrous meeting, but that was apparently just a set-up, a way to catch Zelensky off guard. Maybe it did, but Zelensky handled it as well as could be done, refusing to betray his people.
Our (former?) European allies may be Ukraine’s only hope now. They seem to have come to that realization already. Maybe Trump still wants something out of this mess, and will reconsider.
These meetings are supposed to be scripted – every detail worked out in advance, not some Keystone cops blunderfest. Not some embarrassing shakedown gone wrong.
Laying off meteorologists, because why not:
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/27/nx-s1-5298738/trump-administration-layoffs-hit-noaa-the-agency-that-forecasts-weather-and-hurricanes
Farmers, pilots, event planners, parents, logistics and transportation professionals of all kinds, all say “Thanks, guys!”
so how is Trump threatening tariffs to trim the trade deficit working out?
Census:
The advance international trade deficit in goods increased to $153.3 billion in January from $122.0 billion in December as imports increased more than exports.
January 2025: +25.6° % Change
December 2024: +17.3° % Change
December imports were a record high, btw…
The felon-in-chief, never willing to brook any resistance, any contradiction, invited the President of a country at war to the White House, intent on telling that President that he has no choice but to prostrate himself before his enemy. The felon-in-chief met resistance; he threw a tantrum.
And Vance? “You haven’t sucked up to us enough.” Yeah, the sucking up is really critical to U.S. interests. Not democracy. Not the system of international law we sponsored. Ugh.
The mineral deal was advertised as the focus of this disastrous meeting, but that was apparently just a set-up, a way to catch Zelensky off guard. Maybe it did, but Zelensky handled it as well as could be done, refusing to betray his people.
Our (former?) European allies may be Ukraine’s only hope now. They seem to have come to that realization already. Maybe Trump still wants something out of this mess, and will reconsider.
These meetings are supposed to be scripted – every detail worked out in advance, not some Keystone cops blunderfest. Not some embarrassing shakedown gone wrong.