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imanamerican63

(15,877 posts)
Thu May 8, 2025, 10:14 AM May 2025

Wait! Did I just that steel and aluminum is among the things the US....

gonna trade from the UK? What happened to production of those two things here in America? Remember putting America back to work?? Another example of Trump screwing over his base with more lies!

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Wait! Did I just that steel and aluminum is among the things the US.... (Original Post) imanamerican63 May 2025 OP
That dumbass has absolutely no idea what he's doing. Diamond_Dog May 2025 #1
Yep, like steel and aluminum plants are going to materialize instantly here... brush May 2025 #2
Not only that but the equipment and machines and furnaces Jerry2144 May 2025 #5
Word! We have a moron for a president who doesn't understand economics... brush May 2025 #9
72 % of US aluminum comes from Canada bc we have hydroelectricity. He put 25% tax on it. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz May 2025 #6
The resident has no clue Aluminum requires a ton of electricity Lithos May 2025 #7
The MFer knows how to promote junk deals and make it sound like he's saving us from famine and painful death. Silent Type May 2025 #3
Their own charts are saying $6 B and $5 B, which is a drop in the bucket. Prob over-optimistic too. . . nt Bernardo de La Paz May 2025 #8
What choice did they have? Baitball Blogger May 2025 #4
He lied twice, 2 whoppers: $1.1 trillion trade with China, repeated lie that no trade equals no loss. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz May 2025 #10
Sure let's make a deal across the pond when steel and aluminum is on their doorstep in Canada Bev54 May 2025 #11
All Trump needed was to be able to say the word "deal." MAGAs will lap that up. Details aren't important. Doodley May 2025 #12
About 1% of US aluminium imports (by value) come from the UK; about 1.5% for steel muriel_volestrangler May 2025 #13
 

brush

(61,033 posts)
2. Yep, like steel and aluminum plants are going to materialize instantly here...
Thu May 8, 2025, 10:19 AM
May 2025

and provide American jobs immediately. The moron still deosn't seem to get that tariffs are not paid by foreign countries.

Jerry2144

(3,177 posts)
5. Not only that but the equipment and machines and furnaces
Thu May 8, 2025, 10:26 AM
May 2025

Inside a steel foundry are probably made overseas and will take many months to build, skip, install, test, then operate. Will his stupid idea of tariffs apply on the equipment you actually do the manufacturing here in the US?

It’s not like the Helpful Hardware Folk have blast furnaces on sale with a BOGO, let alone in stock

 

brush

(61,033 posts)
9. Word! We have a moron for a president who doesn't understand economics...
Thu May 8, 2025, 10:35 AM
May 2025

101, and a mean, arrogant, always lecturing someone VP just itching to invoke the 25th Amendment.

The rethugs in Congress know trump is losing/has lost his faculties but are still to cowardly to retake the powers of the purse he has usurped from them.

The next few months are going to be rough as the tariffs on imported goods still haven't fully kicked in.

Bernardo de La Paz

(60,320 posts)
6. 72 % of US aluminum comes from Canada bc we have hydroelectricity. He put 25% tax on it. . . . nt
Thu May 8, 2025, 10:26 AM
May 2025

Lithos

(26,603 posts)
7. The resident has no clue Aluminum requires a ton of electricity
Thu May 8, 2025, 10:29 AM
May 2025

So, having a consistent supply of energy is important. Even before people could conceive of building Aluminum capacity, we'll have to build out the rest of the supporting infrastructure. Looking at 10-20 years.

L-

 

Silent Type

(12,412 posts)
3. The MFer knows how to promote junk deals and make it sound like he's saving us from famine and painful death.
Thu May 8, 2025, 10:20 AM
May 2025

Bernardo de La Paz

(60,320 posts)
8. Their own charts are saying $6 B and $5 B, which is a drop in the bucket. Prob over-optimistic too. . . nt
Thu May 8, 2025, 10:30 AM
May 2025

Baitball Blogger

(51,715 posts)
4. What choice did they have?
Thu May 8, 2025, 10:21 AM
May 2025

Even if Trump is too stupid to see it, everyone else knows about the Time Conundrum. No company is going to make it to Trump's mythical Golden Age. Everyone will go under long before that foundation is laid out on the first factory built in America.

Bernardo de La Paz

(60,320 posts)
10. He lied twice, 2 whoppers: $1.1 trillion trade with China, repeated lie that no trade equals no loss. . . . nt
Thu May 8, 2025, 10:38 AM
May 2025

Bev54

(13,199 posts)
11. Sure let's make a deal across the pond when steel and aluminum is on their doorstep in Canada
Thu May 8, 2025, 10:38 AM
May 2025

Doesn't make a lot of sense.

Doodley

(11,623 posts)
12. All Trump needed was to be able to say the word "deal." MAGAs will lap that up. Details aren't important.
Thu May 8, 2025, 10:52 AM
May 2025
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