How Hard Are World Leaders Laughing At El Dumbass's Brazilian Tariff Shakedown Letter Right Now?

[Zorro]

Evil and megalomaniacal like Krugman said? Yes. But also just so brazenly, laughably stupid.

Regarding tariffs, it remains the case that Donald Trump doesn’t know what they are, how they work, or especially who pays them. He always talks about “charging” countries tariffs, because he is so stupidly, stubbornly uneducated about literally everything, but especially about finance and economics, therefore he doesn’t understand the Econ 101 fact that tariffs are paid by we the American people.

Yesterday the mathlete Trump released the formula he uses to calculate tariff rates, to come up with perfect tariffs that are highly respected and everybody always talks about, with tears in their eyes. It is a math formula. Of math.

“The formula was a formula based on common sense, based on deficits, based on how we’ve been treated over the years. And based on raw numbers... They’re based on very substantial facts and also past history.”

Got that?

The formula is: common sense + deficits + how we’ve been treated over the years + raw numbers + very substantial facts + also past history = the perfect tariff!

How does one plug numbers into this? And how is Trump’s tariff plan for “90 deals in 90 days” going? OK, how about two deals (sort of) and now the 90 day deadline is over? Are you impressed? Art of the Deal!

So now he’s graded himself on a curve again and extended the deadline to August 1 for the rest of the deals to come through (LOL), at which point he will grade himself on a curve again, etc.

Because he’s fucking bad at this, and he’s fucking stupid.

This week, Trump has sent a bunch of new halfwit tariff shakedown letters, riddled with errors, to random nations all over the globe, because nothing says you’re dealing with a Very Serious Person besides Randomly Capitalized Words from a Total Dumbass who can’t even Master The Motherfucking Language Of The Country He Purports To Lead, who has proven himself so utterly incapable of Speaking Proper English For Fucking Christ’s Sake.

https://www.wonkette.com/p/how-hard-are-world-leaders-laughing

[tanyev]

1. Oh, that last paragraph you posted.