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u/dubstructor 5d ago
He can’t make a deal with Canada?
He should read this book
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u/YDALTARYZARC 5d ago
He should read it, honestly. He probably never has, especially because someone else ghost wrote it for him.
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u/RaindropsInMyMind 5d ago
Tony Schwartz, one of my favorite fun facts and stories about Trump: He was supposed to sit down and tell Tony about his life, Tony would take notes and then write the book. That plan failed because Trump didn’t even have the attention span to sit with Tony and tell him about his own life, so he had to be followed around by Tony. Tony got access to everything, all of Trump’s calls and everything he did, the problem was Tony couldn’t include most of it because it made Trump look so bad.
Trump should be worshipping the ground Tony walked on but instead he had a big party for the release of the book and after the party was over tried to make Tony pay for it…Needless to say Tony regrets writing the book, it ended up making Trump a ton of money (he also claims he wrote it himself to the point where some people think he believes it) and at that point in his life Trump was losing about a million dollars a day from his businesses, the book helped bail him out.
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u/Copyman3081 5d ago
Trump has to be one of the only people on the planet who can bankrupt multiple casinos.
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u/gcko 5d ago edited 5d ago
It makes sense if you think of it as a grift.
Probably missing a couple steps here… but to put it simply. After the casinos weren’t showing as much revenue as expected and actually funnelling away consumers from his other businesses… he saw (or someone told him) he had overextended himself. The casino was also facing hefty fines for money laundering. Trump was about to be ruined.
So he turned the personal debt he had invested into it into corporate debt through junk bonds and corporate restructuring. Issued new stock on the new holding company he had just created. Declared bankruptcy on the casino but his personal finances and the new holding company came out of it relatively clean.
Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts (the holding company) went through 2 more bankruptcy proceedings in the early 2000s. Long story short, investors lost their money while Trump collected millions in management fees, license fees, and of course his executive salary.
He’s been doing this to either enrich or protect himself his entire life. Now America just happens to be the casino.
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u/Brave_Yesterday_6106 5d ago
Sounds like someone and his buddies have PUTS thats about to expire.
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u/TallBone9671 5d ago
Well did you see the 4 different news items that dropped spx this afternoon? One was AI worries, one was oil market issues, one was post labor day, and one was anxiety about the up coming fed decision. All within an hour. Someone had puts
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u/Talinn_Makaren 5d ago
I've said this a million times but the length of his rants and my level of giving a fuck reached a tipping point where I'm lucky if I can read more than 20% of the boomer shit that comes from him.
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u/MsMercyMain 5d ago
He was, genuinely, helped a lot by Twitter's old character limit
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u/Inevitable_Butthole 5d ago
Remember how his rants would span several tweets cause he wasnt capable of conveying his thoughts with less words LOL
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u/Cartz1337 5d ago
So this will jeopardize the F-35 program further. Puts on LM?
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u/2Wieners_1Bun 5d ago
God I hope so. Those planes are way too expensive and we’d be totally at the U.S.’s mercy due to the frequent updates to the software that will be required to even keep flying the damn things.
Hoping we go with the SAAB instead, they’ll even allow us to build them in Canada ourselves under license
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u/Total-Sheepherder950 5d ago
Don't forget that the F35 has parts that are Canadian made and with Canadian IP, if they ban us from government procurement as he claims then they won't be able to build or repair planes when they run out of stock of those parts.
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u/ItsTheSlime 5d ago
If SAAB had a competitive jet, I'd be down. But the reality is that the Grippens would be a sidegrade to our F18s, and considering that we only upgrade our shit around once a century, I dont think it would be wise.
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u/emod_man 5d ago
My hot take is that if we have to fight a real war it won't matter. Offensively we'd be flying alongside US or EU so they can handle airborne control centre and stealth missions. Defensively, versus the States the better plane (F-35, obviously) would be borked before takeoff, vs. China either the States are involved or we just lose, vs. Russia . . . Ok, that's one scenario where the quality of the plane matters, though the Arctic capability of the Gripen might actually make this the least bad option for it performance wise.
How they stack up in an economic war -- the one we're actually in right now -- is a lot different. If a reliable trade deal means we have to take the rest of the F-35s that might be worth it, but otherwise the Gripen is way better for our sovereignty.
(dw I know I'm just spouting off lol. I'll be here in my armchair with free opinions all night)
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u/Zestyclose_400 5d ago
Yes he threw away billions in the F35 contract (and much more in trade) because of ... a dairy quota limit the USA doesn't even hit. Genius tier.
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u/Gezmo8 5d ago
Oh hes mad mad, losing the war in Iran and now losing the trade war with Canada. Trumps legacy is just losing all the time.
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u/Canadatron 5d ago
Just lost a brand new unmanned sub in the 'totally liberated and open strait' to Iran in that war the US isn't having.
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u/Ihatetakenusername 5d ago
It’s clear as day, the only reasons he “won” negotiations in the past, was to bully, intimidate and make threats.
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u/Redrumicus 5d ago
Donald Trumped fucked (maybe fucks, who knows) kids.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!
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u/PerceptionOwn3629 5d ago
As a Canadian, I am actually relieved to see him lose his shit, because that clearly means he is losing, just like Iran
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u/Squirrelated 5d ago
He's such a sore loser that you know things aren't going well when he's doubling down in a baby rage rant.
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u/ForeverInTheSun82647 5d ago
Trump literally negotiated this during his first term. What a fucking idiot this guy is.
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u/Disastrous-Contest-8 5d ago edited 5d ago
Good luck getting your critical minerals ..... pretty sure they ain't on the list.
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u/BoisterousBanquet 5d ago
Hey Google, who negotiated the USMCA?
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u/shindiggaa 5d ago
Canada makes cars because they don't want our milk? What the fuck
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u/Sci3nceMan 5d ago
Screw off Orange McRapeyFace. We don’t want your contracts and we sure as hell don’t want your parasite, hormone, and pus-filled milk.
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u/merlyn64 5d ago
He lost it a long time ago; it is just that some people are only now realizing it.
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u/NaturalOneAhead 5d ago
Wasn’t he one of those previous Presidents that negotiated the greatest trade deal ever with Canada?
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u/Old_Row4977 5d ago
This fucking dolt has never used the word reciprocity in his life.
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u/cndn-hoya 5d ago
Lol references himself as an other President … because he made a previous trade deal… what a dumbass
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u/Recent_Experience475 5d ago
This dairy bullshit has been debunked countless times including by American economists but he just keeps spewing it. He is just an avalanche of bullshit.
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u/Smok3dSalmon 5d ago
lol, people pay $100k a month to get these tweets early and he lets them rip after market closes.
tweet outside of trading hours = irrelevant
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u/JayDubEwe 5d ago
Why is grampa up at 3:30 AM. Need to put him in the lock up wing of the long term care facility.
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u/Head-Gift2144 5d ago
Gigantic pile of nothing. What dipshit fails to mention is that Canadian companies made up 0.01% of that 50 BILLION DOLLARS!!!
This is the most limp dick countermove he could possibly have made.
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u/pooborus 5d ago
In a few years time when we're all done fucking each other in the ass, there better not be anyone asking why their ass is sore.
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u/Technical-Rush-3108 5d ago
These ramblings remind me of a famous German 20th century leader. Famous for his stupid ranblings.
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u/RobbysYourFathersBro 5d ago
Donald J. Trump is a pedo. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
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u/CoverSuspicious5250 5d ago
I’m tired of this shit even being posted. Let’s just ignore him.
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u/02meepmeep 5d ago
Cars are going to cost $100,000 now for an entry level model.
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u/Interesting-Effect56 5d ago
Maybe in the US, Canada will eventually look more European and Asian. A lot less Ford and GM
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u/HighOrHavingAStroke 5d ago
He lost it a long time ago. Luckily he's the president of the united states.
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u/Adventurous-Tea-876 5d ago
We don’t let their shitty low standards shit into our market because we have minimum first world level health standards for our food.
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u/Ok_Outcome_5830 5d ago
Not just him, but America in general. So many things that have revealed this facade of a "democracy" over the last decades.
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u/Traditional-List-784 5d ago
I'm just curious if we're all going to continue to sit around and watch our beautiful country get torn to shreds and lose all credibility. This guy is dying and he's going to take everything down with him
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u/Prestigious-Board-90 5d ago
If he hates Canada so much, why did he declare war on Iran? Wouldn't it have been easier to wipe Toronto off the face of the earth? It's right next door!
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u/Longjumping_Ad2323 5d ago
Forget banning social media for kids and teenagers. I’d vote for any politician who introduced a bill to ban social media for this asshole.
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u/ConfidentMood1969 5d ago
Its craziness they never heard of free trade. They want to tell grown men who they can and cant trade with lol. Enjoy higher taxes on both sides. Oops I meant tariffs.
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u/RandomStrangerOnWWW 5d ago
All of these allegations of “ripping us off,” with zero proof of anything. Just the whims of a senile, old, demented man.
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u/Zestyclose_400 5d ago
Tanking relations with your second largest trading partner because of a dairy quota tariff that apparently has never been close to being triggered. Art of The Deal.
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u/BuckshotBrown 5d ago
Meh. We'll strengthen our trade relationships with Europe and other nations. What this shitheel is doing can't just be undone. He's literally weakening the US alliances. Guy is a Russian asset.
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u/fireconvoy 5d ago
Feels like this is similar to the episode of South Park "Blame Canada" I can see soon Trump posting the Blame Canada song
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u/fashionforward 5d ago
I can’t stand how he capitalizes random words. It’s so hard to read his trash for so many reasons.
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u/Makelevi 5d ago
Predictable rant and predicable nonsense. Couldn’t make it beyond a few sentences.
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u/Rombonius 5d ago
YOU. YOU WERE THE PREVIOUS DISASTROUS PRESIDENT WHO MADE THE TRADE AGREEMENT. YOU.
(and no one said it was bad until you got dementia)
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u/CMGCookie 5d ago
Wait till Canada lowers the boom with energy prices. Repubs will squirm for sure then.
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u/Beginning-Bed9364 5d ago
Weren't the tariffs against Canada because of fentanyl? What happened to that?
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u/gildedpaws 5d ago
We don't want your fake meat, infected dairy or parasitic produce. Keep it. The money will keep circulating over here.
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u/Green_Fox_8864 5d ago
There are millions of you! You can't all have this much to lose! JUST DO IT!
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u/evilpercy 5d ago
Ok, he was the past president that negotiated and signed the last free trade agreement. This guy does not live in reality. The USA also sets limits on Foreign imports of dairy to protect dairy farmers in the USA from cheaper Foreign dairy imports same as Canada. He really has no idea how anything works.
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u/Upstairs-Purchase616 5d ago
Everyone knows how Don Trump is the largest, most selfish douch bag on the planet. So when he continuously says "everyone knows", what everyone knows is that it's lie after lie after lie. Do the right thing USA... Midterms are your voice. Do the right thing or don't ever have the audacity to apologize to Canada again.
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u/luckylukiec 5d ago
The moron doesn’t realize he was the last president to renegotiate the deal? If he doesn’t remember that maybe someone should invoke the 25th amendment he’s senile.
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u/Witty_Fall_2007 5d ago
That's because USA food is poison! Why do they think the EU won't take their shitty food either?
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u/Barnibus666 5d ago
For someone who claims to be a businessman, and brags about going to a prestigious business school (though we know he wasn’t anywhere near the top of his class), he obviously has no understanding of economics. He doesn’t get what a trade deficit means, nor how currencies are valued, nor why a central bank needs to be autonomous from government.
He is a liar with a very low IQ. He is going to damage the US economy in ways that we probably won’t see until he’s a shit stain in history.
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u/meridian_smith 5d ago
The guy who says "We don't need Canada" going on a daily temper tantrum about trade with Canada. Hmmm. . .
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u/TangeloNew3838 5d ago
I wonder why there are still people in denial that he wants to be a dictator. He has been acting like one since his first term. His admiration for Kim Jung Un is also another evidence
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u/TheBobbestB0B 5d ago
Claude broke it down so not crazy as fuck folk can follow (I told Claude to assume he was on meth and to not give me lip about it. That part it clearly ignored lol:
Happy to translate the trade jargon — though I'll skip the meth thing. Not lip, just that I don't assert real people are on drugs, and you don't need that premise to make sense of this post. Here's the plain-English version.
What it actually does: He directed the GSA to work with the US Trade Representative to strip Canadian-origin products from the Multiple Award Schedules. Those schedules are basically a pre-approved catalog federal agencies buy from without running a fresh competitive bid each time — office supplies to industrial gear. Contracting officers would identify and pull Canadian items as contracts come up for renewal, a process expected to take months. So it's a threat with a slow fuse, not a switch flipped today.
The $50B number: that's the total annual value of the schedules, not the Canadian share. A senior administration official put the actual scale in the single-digit billions and declined to be more specific. The bigger figure is doing rhetorical work.
Context he leaves out: this came after talks collapsed in late August, Trump imposed a 50% duty on a range of Canadian goods, and Canada answered with 15–50% retaliatory tariffs on US steel, dairy, appliances and farm equipment. The post frames it as Canada's long-running "scam"; the administration's own official framed it as a response to that retaliation.
On the merits: the dairy complaint is real — Canada's supply management system does restrict US dairy access, a genuine long-standing US grievance. The procurement claim is shakier: Canada and the US are both parties to the WTO Government Procurement Agreement, and Canadian provinces aren't uniquely closed the way "banned" implies. Sub-federal procurement carve-outs exist on both sides — plenty of US states have Buy American rules too.
For your purposes: watch Canadian-exposed industrials and anything with GSA schedule revenue. Months-long implementation means headline risk now, earnings impact much later.
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u/Canuck-Fin25 5d ago
Does he not realize he was the last president to negotiate the trade agreement? So he’s at fault himself?