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Is Captain Blowhard actually gonna do this tariff shit today or what?

GoreWon2000
(1,449 posts)in the Rose garden.
I missed that, was starting to wonder.
wishstar
(5,685 posts)seems like I recall him pulling similar stunts in first term where unpopular announcements came after 4pm market close
GoreWon2000
(1,449 posts)over night and then the U.S. markets will tank tomorrow.
sdfernando
(5,653 posts)...so gotta get that selling done before the announcement and market crash!
jls4561
(2,196 posts)Edit: He’s also working out who gets exemptions. Which means who’s offering him the biggest bribes.
Second Edit: He has to wait until later in the day so his handlers can get the hair and orange face goo exactly right, and also so he they can get the right drug cocktail in him.
Bev54
(12,360 posts)Maru Kitteh
(29,951 posts)Onthefly
(795 posts)usonian
(16,987 posts)617Blue
(1,864 posts)while the great man rambles and offers less clarity than currently exists. The press will fail to ask any penetrating questions (like What is the point of this?). The financial media types will twist themselves into pretzels pretending this man isn't dangerously out of control and the entire Admin isn't over the heads incompetent.
Blah blah blah
uponit7771
(92,705 posts)senseandsensibility
(21,630 posts)right up until the last minute with his advisors. Heard that gem this morning on CNN. At least they didn't call it "Liberation Day". The media has actually been pretty good about not falling for that.
republianmushroom
(19,410 posts)to appease that orange ego.
malaise
(282,822 posts)-will be dead on arrival with ‘born again’ price increases for all😀
JustABozoOnThisBus
(24,064 posts)I'm sure he will look marvelous.