Donald Trump has “dumb and helpless” meltdown as his trade war backfires

| 11:01 am EDT April 5, 2025
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Just how poorly is Donald Trump’s trade war going for him? The only reason the stock market didn’t plummet again today is that it’s closed for the weekend. The US stock market has lost nearly ten percent of its total worth in two days, thanks solely to Trump’s escalating tariff idiocy.

Whatever Trump thinks he’s trying to accomplish, it’s clearly not working. After he hit China with massive tariffs, China responded with equally massive tariffs. This was always going to be the outcome, but Trump is so senile he seemed to think China would cave to him just because.

Now Trump is throwing a fit, baselessly insisting that “China has been hit much harder than the USA, not even close.” Trump then went on to insist that the United States has been “dumb and helpless” when it comes to trade. The irony is that while the US has historically been in a fairly strong position on trade, Trump has indeed made the US dumb and helpless – because he’s dumb and helpless.

Trump ended his meltdown “it won’t be easy, but the end result will be historic.” Well, he’s right about this not being easy. It’s sickening. He’s also right about it being historic, given than no one else has ever done something this dumb on such a massive scale.

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