Please consider Trump’s letter to the world.
Truth Social Letter to the World
A LETTER SENT BY PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP TO ALL NATO NATIONS AND, THE WORLD: “I am ready to do major Sanctions on Russia when all NATO Nations have agreed, and started, to do the same thing, and when all NATO Nations STOP BUYING OIL FROM RUSSIA. As you know, NATO’S commitment to WIN has been far less than 100%, and the purchase of Russian Oil, by some, has been shocking! It greatly weakens your negotiating position, and bargaining power, over Russia. Anyway, I am ready to “go” when you are. Just say when? I believe that this, plus NATO, as a group, placing 50% to 100% TARIFFS ON CHINA, to be fully withdrawn after the WAR with Russia and Ukraine is ended, will also be of great help in ENDING this deadly, but RIDICULOUS, WAR. China has a strong control, and even grip, over Russia, and these powerful Tariffs will break that grip. This is not TRUMP’S WAR (it would never have started if I was President!), it is Biden’s and Zelenskyy’s WAR. I am only here to help stop it, and save thousands of Russian and Ukrainian lives (7,118 lives lost last week, alone. CRAZY!). If NATO does as I say, the WAR will end quickly, and all of those lives will be saved! If not, you are just wasting my time, and the time, energy, and money of the United States. Thank you for your attention to this matter! DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.”
You First
The NATO response is seemingly easy: You first, for 3 months.
The only problem with my proposal is there is no unified voice speaking for all the NATO countries. Trump knows NATO cannot do what he says. This is Trump’s cop-out.
Leaders Lead, Headless Chickens and Bluffers Don’t
Leaders lead by example. They don’t shout at the top of their lungs, you first.
His Truth Social Post is really just a TACO (Trump Always Chickens Out).
Trump has threatened Putin a dozen times this year and Putin spit in Trump’s face. Now Trump demands NATO to do what he has threatened.
There are 32 NATO countries and Trump wants all of them to act before he does.
None of them have any reason to believe Trump would hold up his end of the deal. Indeed, no country can possibly believe anything Trump says at all after he unilaterally scrapped his own USMCA deal.
Trust Is Gone
Trust in the US ended the moment Trump scrapped USMCA. It was his own treaty, passing the Senate 89-10. Trump bragged about USMCA for years.
Then suddenly Trump demanded more from Mexico and Canada. The same thing is happening with every alleged “deal” in this term, none of which has been signed by any country.
What a pathetic hoot.
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May 9, 2025: 80 Percent Tariff on China ‘Seems Right’ Says Trump, But It’s Nearly as Stupid
Credit Trump for the irony of the year in a pair of comments on Truth Social.
Comments of the Day
- CHINA SHOULD OPEN UP ITS MARKET TO USA — WOULD BE SO GOOD FOR THEM!!! CLOSED MARKETS DON’T WORK ANYMORE!!!
- 80% Tariff on China seems right! Up to Scott B.
Irony of the Year
CLOSED MARKETS DON’T WORK ANYMORE!!!
No one has tried harder than Trump to make the US an island.
He wants production here, massive tariffs to stop imports, tariffs to balance the budget, and now he says an “80 percent tariff on China seems right”.
Now Trump wants 100 percent tariffs. But only if 32 countries act first.
Open Market
The US had a beautifully, nearly open market with Canada and Mexico until Trump came along and ruined it.
Please read over and over Cheese Was a “Key Achievement” of Trump’s USMCA Trade Agreement
The above post contains over a dozen instances in which Trump bragged what a great deal.
It was such a great deal that Trump thanked Mexico and Canada. Notably USMCA is “Good for everybody – Farmers, Manufacturers, Energy, Unions – tremendous support. Importantly, we will finally end our Country’s worst Trade Deal, NAFTA!”
Good deal or not (and I think it was a very good deal for the US), the fact of the matter is Trump has no legitimate right to unilaterally break a deal ratified by the Senate 89-10.
Trump is trying hard to make the US an island after admitting closed markets don’t work.
Attacks on the Weak
Notice how Trump attacks the weak. After repeatedly threatening Russia with severe consequences, Trump did nothing.
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