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#Netanyahu is in the White House looking to make deals with #Trump and promising to eliminate the #trade deficit between the two countries.
Meanwhile Trump said that the #USA is “having talks” with #Iran — they have a “very big meeting” on Saturday and the US wants to “do a deal” with Iran because it would be “preferable” to “doing the obvious,” which is something Trump said he and Israel don’t want to be involved with if they can avoid it.
(CNN live—WH pressconference)
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Then #trump lied about border crossings… blamed Biden for a bunch of stuff.
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#Trump: ‘The EU… was formed with all of the countries from Europe. I guess most of them, not all of them, but most of them…”
#MyThoughts — why doesn’t he know this?
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@dalfen@mstdn.social#Trump simplistically blamed all of the #inflation over Biden’s administration* on “energy.”
Then he said, “We’re gonna try to get ‘groceries’ down, right? An old-fashioned term, but a beautiful term…”
( #MyThoughts — it is probably an old-fashioned term for him since he hasn’t needed to buy groceries himself nearly all his life, so he forgot people did that )
*Note: Inflation was pandemic-related and came down over Biden’s term. Also, Biden moved to directly lower energy prices.
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Trump then said the US will start paying its debt down using tariffs (and “other things” 
).
#USA #trump #tariffs #USdebt #USeconomy
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Trump thinks other countries “make” money when they have a trade surplus over the #USA (and the U.S. subsequently loses money).
I don’t think it matters how many economists try to get him to see things differently. This is #Trumponomics . 
#trump #tariffs #economics #MyThoughts
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I quoted the words carefully below and listened three times. He said, “They were charged tariffs.”
@dalfen
Lies, lies and more lies...
@dalfen Trump is a narcasitic ignoramus surrounded by a cabal of obsequiousness. Essentially, there is an intellectual vacuum at the centre of US government.
@Geri Well said!