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Really? What was their first clue?

It’s important to the world to drop the “quietly” bit.

The US administration is behaving erratically and irrationally. This isn’t a punchline to some smug joke, it has important repercussions for world trade and defence needs.

Let’s cut the conspiracy theories about how they are doing this for graft, and the unfounded “4d chess” approaches. Some people in the administration may be trying to steer the government in these ways, but the captain of the ship is an unleashed chaos monkey surrounded by sycophantic yes-men.

The tariffs could double tomorrow or be gone tomorrow. The US could invade Greenland with a military force tomorrow or drop it completely move onto some shiny new idiocy.

We in the rest of the world need to move with urgency in order to be prepared for the worst. This is a tall task, so the longer we keep these admissions quiet the longer we are vulnerable

If only we had 4 years of this exact behavior to judge him by to predict he may act like this.....

"Might"?

I know it's fun to circle-jerk around these headlines, but it's a misdirection to give lay-people something titter about because it's too difficult to explain what's really happening. His behaviour actually is rational, he's just an idiot.

For Trump's entire life, the US stocks/bonds markets have mapped closely to market greed/fear respectively. When the market gets spooked, they turn to more conservative investments, and US bonds have historically been that. (Government bonds are typically seen as the least risky investment, because it's unlikely that a country falls apart and fails to pay its debts).

Fast forward to today, the US has a bunch of debt that needs refinancing this year, and lately, we haven't been getting good interest rates on our bond sales (which indicates people are seeing US bonds as more risky than usual). So Trump said, "no problem, we just need to instill a bit of fear in the market to drive investors to bonds, which will cause the interest rate to drop, so we can refinance our debt at a better rate." So he announces a bunch of nonsensical tariffs, which tanks the stock market, and just like he expected the bond market saw a dip in interest rates......for about a day, followed by a sharp increase! That sharp increase is why Trump agreed to pause the tariffs. Not only did it not work how he thought, it would seem he exposed a pronounced decline in trust for the US' ability to pay its debts. Instead of running to US bonds, investors ran everywhere else (gold, the Swiss Franc, the Euro, etc.)

I don't know what his next move is, but I have to think he's feeling a bit desperate. He's going to probably try to up his "blame the Democrats for their spending" game, of course without acknowledging that he has also only increased spending (even with all of DOGE's hard fought, and definitely not half-baked, budget cuts).

But all his strategies seem to be overt market manipulation, and nothing else. I feel like it really highlights the difference between someone who can create actual value using intelligent planning and innovation, and someone who is a capitalist leech who has fooled themselves into thinking that buying low and selling high does something useful for someone.

What do they mean by might be

Let me tell you, it’s really god damn annoying seeing people just now have “epiphanies” about shit a lot of us have known for decades now.

Get loud you pricks.

"Quietly fear"

motherfuckers, we've been saying this for 10 years...

He has concepts of a plan.

Does he know what a recession is? Genuinely asking. That would help understand this response.

Let me guess?

....but supported him because they wanted the tax cuts and any side effects of having monsters like the qons in charge they thought would pass them by...

No shit, Sherlock.

Trump does in fact have a tariff plan and has had it for years. He uses tariffs to crash and recover the market for insider trading. These fuckers need to all be in jail. Since the justice system in non functional then US citizens should probably defend themselves from this economic terrorism in ... other ways.

I quietly fear that fish doesn’t have a tariff plan and that they might be swimming.

An insane man surrounded by amoral, self-serving handlers and white supremacists.

It's great to be a "radical left" these days and be allowed to openly and freely doubt the mental togetherness of the orange buffoon.

Lmfao I’m truly baffled that they thought he had a plan beyond “grab as much money as possible for myself”

Insane? No.

Drunk with power? Obviously.

Source: History.

A callback to his healthcare reform- the man has the concepts of a plan. Somehow that doesn't deter his voters

Mental acuity of a turnip