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It just goes to show how stupid Trump and his supporters are. He for starting a trade war and having to eat shit and his supporters for thinking he was one of them because he is a moron.

China should maintain the tariffs on the USA, even if Trump eliminates the Chinese tariffs. This administration needs to be taught a good lesson and they need to eat their shit sandwich.

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"teach a lesson" is something you do to a kid . It does not work when talking about politics or policy. No one, China or the US, wants a prolonged situation where a lot of people are made worse off. Learn from mistakes and move on. But I am not sure how Trump could have thought this would work.

From an international perspective one hard lesson learned here is that no contract with the USofA can be relied upon for at least four years, there's no promise Trump can make with respect to stability and reliability that anybody would trust.

Some would say further than 4 yrs. Enough of the voters and Congress have demonstrated that they are tolerant of this mode of leadership behaviour - internationally trust has disappeared for a generation.

> Learn from mistakes and move on

We’ll see if he’s even capable of that.

https://lite.cnn.com/2025/04/23/business/new-tariffs-trump-w...

> Learn from mistakes and move on.

Learning from mistakes requires acknowledging that mistakes occurred. Trump is notoriously averse to acknowledging his mistakes.

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