Why is Donald Trump surrendering to Mexico?

[Anonymous]

Trump is looking weak. I am starting to believe he is in on that Cartel deal. First he is cowering in fear to Vladimir Putin and now Claudia Sheinbaum.

[Cormac995]

At least someone is waking up to his bullshit. I don't know how much you know about tariffs we're about to have a recession and I think it might straight up end up being a depression. Believe it or not, dropping the tariffs on Mexico was one of the smartest things he could have done. Mexico is one of our biggest trading partners so is Canada and most of Europe, these tariffs are going to make us a second world country if he stands by them.

People don't understand how tariffs work. Trump says it will bring tons of money into America and he's right, the federal government is going to make millions, but do you know how tariffs work? A tariff is a tax a foreign seller has to pay to the federal government to sell goods in your country. every tariffed good coming into America is going to skyrocket in price because of basic economics.

You're an American. Tell me what happens every time taxes in America go up? Businesses raise their prices to make up the difference because that way even though they're paying more to sell something by selling it at a marked-up price they keep the profits the same. If you were a company selling goods in America and you find out now you have to pay a 25% sales tax on every good sold, you'd raise prices too and probably stop giving them your business outright, wouldn't you?

Also, a trade deficit isn't what people think it is, a trade deficit doesn't mean you're spending more on global trade then you're making. It means you import more goods than you export but that's not the same as loss of money. Most of the things we import are components and raw materials that we then use to make our own products that we then sell at a profit. The trade deficit in our case is a GOOD THING! It makes other countries buddy up to us and do what we want because of how tightly linked our economies are with each other as a result of economic production!

The American dollar is backed by prosperity and power projection Trump is killing both right now. If he gets away with what he wants to do to US aid our soft power projection will be destroyed. Do you really think we're buying condoms in Africa and doing free surgeries out of the goodness of our hearts? No, it's because when we do those things for these downtrodden nations, they like us and in exchange they give us good deals on their resources and behave (Mostly).

I agree US aid spent millions on stupid shit but in the scale of the government budget this is pennies. Every year we fund the government we're spending trillions across all the nations expenses. Saving a few million here and there by do this is going to do more harm than good. If we pull out our aid, China and Russia will swoop in with arms full of gifts offering to be their new sugar daddy and then we lose our good deals, and they give them to China or Russia instead.

By being hostile to our trade allies with tariffs and cutting programs that project American power, he's doing more harm to the value of the dollar than he would by increasing government spending at this point.

Don't believe me? Trump took office on Jan 20th Take a look at the DOW Jones; it's drops correlate to the days trump made the tariffs. They went back up slightly when he lifted them again but we're still at a massive net loss in value they didn't bounce back even a fourth of as much as it's dropped. Just look at the graphs over 3 months. Anyone can look at this graph and see that's a problem. You're going to notice it was shaky for a while and first and then it took a massive dip when Trump started doing things like talking about annexing green eland and Canada as well as putting up these tariffs. www.msn.com/.../watchlist

He's also been lying through his teeth about most of the numbers he's given and most of the "Fraud" he's found is actually public record and isn't fraud at all it's just stupid government spending that was approved. Bad judgement may be fucking the country but bad judgments not fraud its incompetence.

Also, if you look into his meeting with Zelensky it was 100% a shakedown. I've been following the war in Ukraine since day 1. Vance was spitting shit straight off of Kremlin state TV almost word for word about Ukraine. They were rude, they yelled at him, they talked over him, and they wouldn't even let him speak to answer the questions, lies and insults they kept slinging at him. Trump is trying to bully Ukraine into selling their future to America for a peace treaty that will break in less than 10 years probably less than 5 honestly.

I could write a 10-page essay in 12. font on the amount of bullshit Trump, Vance, speaker Macarthy and Marjory Taylor Greene has been saying about Ukraine. They say so many of the exact same things in Russian propaganda I'm certain all of them are bought and paid for by Russia.

By the way did you know that JD Vance's cousin Nate is in Ukraine serving as a foreign fighter on the front lines as a volunteer? From where I'm standing defending the people shooting at your cousin and his friends says a lot about the guy. His cousin is ashamed of him he said it himself.

People still say he's not a fascist and yet he's been purging the government of people who stand against him and what he says he wants to do to Gaza is the dictionary definition of ethnic cleansing. It's literally defined on google as "the mass expulsion or killing of members of an unwanted ethnic or religious group in a society."

For those of you who are so far right you'll only trust Fox go ahead hear the man's own words for yourself from a source you trust. You can find the same speech everywhere from CNN to BBC. Everyone in the whole world heard him talk about the illegal conquest of Gaza he wants to make. God only knows why, I don't understand why anyone would want Gaza even free of Hamas. Especially after it got turned into a mad max theme park.

https://youtu.be/0D4M585EF08

This is Fox for those of you who won't trust any other media because your so deep on Trumps cock. Yes, he says they're "Allowed to return" but 1. I don't believe him. 2. Just because they can come back later doesn't change the fact this is displacement and thus ethnic cleansing. 3. Using the word "own" for the Gaza strip is pretty fucking specific and is a political way of saying take by force with bloodshed. 4. They have nothing and nowhere to go so they're as good as dead if he does.

Egypt and Jordan won't take them because they know Hamas will come along for the ride which means he'll either put them into camps (Again ethnic cleansing even if it's not genocide by definition there is a difference but are you going to look me in the eye and at least admit these aren't disturbing parallels to Hitler?)

This is from the ICRC International Committee of the Red Cross this clearly states that what Trump is saying about Annexing Gaza is illegal just because he uses pretty language to make it sound benevolent doesn't change what this is and it's illegal

casebook.icrc.org/a_to_z/glossary/occupation

This is article 47 of the Geneva convention.

ihl-databases.icrc.org/.../article-47

Don't get me wrong. Isreal has a right to defend itself but when you look at what they have done in their "Buffer Zones" what it really is, is colonization and conquest. I condone Isreal killing Hamas, Hezbollah, Isis, the Taliban and at this point Syria is a cluster fuck of terrorism and war crimes due to the power vacuum the civil war caused.

Civilian casualties in war are inevitable even more so when fighting in the middle east against these terrorists. They use schools and hospitals as weapon caches and military bunkers and use apartment blocks as positions to fire RPGs and sniper fire. Yes, some war crimes I'm sure are happening but do you know what their friendly fire casualty rate is? 13%! if your friendly fire rate is that high it means the battlefield is complete and total chaos and everyone is on a hair trigger scared out of their minds shotting at every potential threat they see.

People don't get it. My mom taught a bunch of the kids that came back from the middle east and the war on terror. None of them were the same when they got home. This is a war where the woman walking up to the aid truck with a swaddling cloth might have a baby or she might have a bomb.

That said, if we become the enemies we're trying to kill, we've already lost.

[DrPepper12]

Lol. He is weak. He is surrendering. He is cowering.

He's a universal pathetic embarrassment.

[alice55]

He's literally a wimp who deport poor immigrant but propose to give the American green card to rich people AKA cartel drugs leader...

[FunkyMonkee]

Oh, is THAT what CNN's saying this week? You SHOULD know better, by now!! CNN don't know their hole from an ass in the ground!!! They prove it EVERY SINGLE DAY!!!

[Uglygaypoorcoward94]

mexico lowkey would be a nice state, easier southern border to shore up, clean up cartels and high crime rates increase quality of life for their people and cleanse up the blatant gov corruption that is so prevalent

[Anonymous]

Trump Derangement Syndrome is getting so bad you have to make up lies about voter regret

[NathanDavis]

nobody wins a trade war... period

[UrsulaY]

He thinks Americans are stupid.

[Dargil]

He isn't.