re: How many people understand what happened yesterday with Trump's 90 day pause on tariffs?

The bond market, he had to cave to keep it afloat, and he may be too late. With a debt base system, you can’t lose the bonds, so he had to pivot. He wants rates down, ti finance the debt and his initiatives, but we are broke, so he’s cornered… but he had to save the bond market ( China was probably dumping behind the scenes to F’ck him and his plan)

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can anyone question his intentions are America First?

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I question it. He wants to be loved, more than anything. Fortunately, that aligns with American interests sometimes. But his constant misstatements about the tariffs ("other countries pay them", "reciprocal") and that stupid formula they used should be proof enough that he has a child's understanding of how these things work.

His approval rating is taking a serious hit this week, which will affect his feeling about how loved he is. I can't imagine it goes back up as US business pay tariffs, prices get passed on to consumers. The very likely outcome of this is he will declare victory and cancel most of the tariffs. He will say that his team has negotiated the fantastic deals, even if there are none, or only a few, he might get a few restrictions lifted here and there which will be all over conservative media as wins, but we'll be left with approximately the same trade regime we had before.

When you are a hammer everything you see is a nail.