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Americans sour on Trump's handling of the economy, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds (www.reuters.com)

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[–] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No, no, see - he said the other countries would pay us the tariffs! We'd all be rolling in money!

And some appreciable fraction of the American public still doesn't understand that's not how tariffs work.

[–] LucidNightmare@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We're three fucking months in, and people STILL don't understand what they are. Three. Fucking. Months.

We got a lotta high level intellectuals over here, let me tell ya...

[–] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

He's been talking about them since he campaigned for his first term, so I'd argue we're closer to a decade in. Which of course just strengthens your point.