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Johnny2X2X

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5. Spread this everywhere

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Thu Apr 3, 2025, 01:44 PM

Thursday

No one shouldn't know about this idiotic formula by this weekend.

They put tariffs on countries who literally have no tariffs on the US.

And also, we have a $2.5B trade deficit with Russia, they avoided tariffs though...

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Trump's Tariff Formula Slammed As 'Fake' And 'Incredibly Stupid' By Experts [View all] LetMyPeopleVote Thursday OP

One of the cable programs showed the "formula" Klarkashton Thursday #1

Here are some examples of how the tariffs are calculated including Vietnam which is being hammered by this formula LetMyPeopleVote Thursday #2

+1 dalton99a Thursday #7

Trump's formula... lame54 Thursday #3

Fake and stupid C_U_L8R Thursday #4

Spread this everywhere Johnny2X2X Thursday #5

There is nothing stupid about this. It is planned chaos to distract from Bluetus Thursday #6

It's what they taught him in Econ 101 at Wharton dalton99a Thursday #8

The silly formula used by trump is discussed as one of the five surprises in trump's tariffs. LetMyPeopleVote Thursday #9

Economists say the way Trump calculated tariffs makes no sense LetMyPeopleVote Thursday #10

Trump's formula for there's tariffs is stupid LetMyPeopleVote Thursday #11

The Trump White House keeps trying (and failing) to make mathematical formulas work LetMyPeopleVote 15 hrs ago #12