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"It is my opinion that the SUV or, as it is sometimes referred to, Large Engine Vehicle, which does so well in the United States, will be a wonderful addition to the various product lines within Vietnam"
Source: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114784170652465525
Vietnam will pay a 20% tariff
He still hasn't learned how they work, has he
It is my great honour to announce that I have made a trade deal with the round device on the wall. I bet the batteries, for free and it will correctly tell the time twice a day.
The greatest trade deal of all time.
"we will give you paying us taxes and in exchange we can ravage your economy"
this is a caricature of a caricature of itself. its kind of funny that the literal president of the united states is saying shit like this. this just cannot be true.
Oh man, that's the second time America lost to Vietnam
So American will pay between 20 and 40% tax on goods coming from Vietnam but the Vietnamese can buy US goods with no tax?
Cool.
Do Americans know this?
Yes
It's protectionism, and the Democrats do. Republicans don't know what a tariff is.
It's funny. 20 to 40 tax on Americans and none on the Vietnamese and he thinks that people who make an average of USD$8,000 per year are going to buy $100,000 US SUVs. He's a delusional idiot.
I some times ask myself is it dementia or imbecility?
Does that man understand the bullshit coming out of his holes, or is it the narcism that makes him talk and talk and talk, no matter how much lunacy is it the words leaving him...
If I had no idea who he was, I could give extreme benefit of the doubt and say it's spin. Claiming a loss is really a win.
But we do know who he is, so I'm going with imbecility.
I clicked on the link and There's no german page for that... but there's a page in Pfälzisch, the dialect people in the german region Palatinate (Pfalz) speak.
Person. Woman. Man. Camera. SUV.
He still doesnt understand tariffs.
Never did, never will.
I, for one, have never in my life heard an SUV referred to as a Large Engine Vehicle
SUV=SubUrban Vehicle
That's what I thought the acronym stood for when I was younger, because I would usually see them in suburbs. Now that I'm older, I refuse to call them sport utility vehicles because suburban vehicle is a much better description of their intended use-case.
Considering there is nothing sport or utility about them, I think your name for them is fitting.
They're great at driving onto sidewalks, or over the curb if the person in front is taking too long at the drive thru.
You know, it's getting seriously difficult for me to discern Trump's actual posts from parody accounts.
The way he writes and says things... It just sounds like someone trolling.
I almost wonder if there's a PR team making them, trying to impersonate Trump's style.
You're not alone! I have the same problem.
@Tattorack @Davriellelouna Trump himself is completely out to lunch. He doesn't know what his own policies are, only that he's been told that whatever he just signed will make him look powerful and manly. The handlers running his accounts are just having fun knowing they can make abundantly clear that the dictator has no idea what's going on and civil society is (for now) powerless to do anything. That can only go on for so long...
Fucking lol
He still doesn't understand how tariffs work.
As I keep saying: It sounds like he thinks the word "tariff" just means "payment". Then he follows that with "[whoever he thinks should make the payment]". Tariff by Apple, Tariff by China, etc. Honestly. I don't know how else you can make it make sense.
My supposition is that he's a complete moron following advice from someone working off a protectionism 101 primer from 1834 who had Randian bullshit physically replace his brain to the point where they don't do the rest of the steps to make the protectionism work because that's the government doing stuff and therefore communism
Burger World!!!
Have you seen how tiny the roads are there?
You should be able to fit at least one SUV:
That's an alley, not a road. They have perfectly normal sized roads in Vietnam.
You can totally fit 3!
And how shitty american cars are?
And how close japan and China are?