The Daily Populous Saturday May 10th, 2025 morning edition
Authored by newrepublic.com and submitted by Aggravating_Money992

"Unless he turns this around, three weeks from now, you walk into a store and we're going to have a covid-like supply chain crisis, and Trump is looking for an exit" -- here's the @SRuhle commentary that triggered a Trump Truth Social meltdown pic.twitter.com/hzmP9uGTqu — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 9, 2025

“So what did we see with England.… You’ve got a P.M. there who is a close ally of Donald Trump, and they’re saying, ‘Let’s put on a show, let’s create a theater, and let’s say we’ve got a deal.’ Yes, there aren’t any details to it, there is still a 10 percent tariff, which is why Jay Powell is not cutting rates, cuz 10 percent is more than triple what it was, so it’s still going to be painful, especially for small business,” Ruhle continued. “But what’s most important is the language around China. A week ago, China was like, ‘We’re not showing up unless you lower the tariffs,’ and [they] didn’t. Forty-eight hours ago Donald Trump said, ‘We’re not gonna lower the tariffs.’ Yesterday he said, ‘Yeah, maybe.’ And today things are softening even more.… Donald Trump is looking for some sort of exit here.”

“Look at the cargo ships coming into Seattle, the Port of Los Angeles; pick the port. We’re getting fewer and fewer ships with less and less cargo. And unless he turns this around, three weeks from now you walk into a store and we’re going to have a Covid-like supply chain crisis, and Trump is looking for an exit.”

Ruhle brilliantly exposed the president’s waffling on tariffs, introducing them with strongman language and massive guarantees while the reality is far more uncompelling. He introduced a trade deal with the U.K. on Thursday that wasn’t even finished. By Friday, he walked back his tariffs on China before even negotiating, announcing a steep 65 percent drop in tariffs is on the table (making it a still outrageous rate of 80 percent tariffs on the country).

thesirensoftitans on May 9th, 2025 at 19:29 UTC »

Every one of his golf trips is to his own course. He charges inflated prices for the secret service to ride carts.

It's not fucking rocket science to see what this asshat is doing.

He got his daughter a sweetheart deal and patents in China during a trade embargo.

His son in law made something like $2 billion from Saudi Arabia in the first term.

Selling Goya in the oval, huckstering cars on the white house lawn, his crypto scam, his wife's crypto scam. The market manipulation to enrich his cronies.

He's a fucking trash ass salesman shitting his gold paint all over the fucking oval.

i can't believe this is reality and that people actually think he's doing a good job.

Searchlights on May 9th, 2025 at 19:05 UTC »

> “I think it’s frankly ridiculous that anyone in this room would even suggest that President Trump is doing anything for his own benefit,” Leavitt said. “He left a life of luxury and a life of running a very successful real estate empire for public service, not just once but twice.”

> “The American public reelected him back to this White House because they trust he acts in the best interests of this country and putting the American public first,” Leavitt continued. “This is a president who has actually lost money for being president.”

I think I need to go lay down.

Of all the full of shit Press Secretaries, she is the full of shittest.

Gry_F0xxx on May 9th, 2025 at 19:04 UTC »

The delusion that this woman allows herself to live in is absolutely disgusting. But it's not really delusion, it's all lies lies lies from her and everyone else involved. Trump has made an absolute killing financially in both of his terms, and this one has barely begun.