Anonymous wrote:Totally bonkers. Trump is total idiot and everyone around him is manipulating him.

“Navarro isn’t one to back down during policy debates and had stridently urged Trump to keep tariffs in place, even as corporate chieftains and other advisers urged him to relent. And Navarro had been regularly around the Oval Office since Trump’s “Liberation Day” event.

So that morning, when Navarro was scheduled to meet with economic adviser Kevin Hassett in a different part of the White House, Bessent and Lutnick made their move, according to multiple people familiar with the intervention.

They rushed to the Oval Office to see Trump and propose a pause on some of the tariffs—without Navarro there to argue or push back. They knew they had a tight window. The meeting with Bessent and Lutnick wasn’t on Trump’s schedule.

The two men convinced Trump of the strategy to pause some of the tariffs and to announce it immediately to calm the markets. They stayed until Trump tapped out a Truth Social post, which surprised Navarro, according to one of the people familiar with the episode.”

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-tariff-pause-navarro-bessent-lutnick-b9e864fb

Anonymous wrote:Here's an idea from a poster on hackernews that points out something Trump could do to onshore manufacturing. HEY DOGE, here's an idea for you.

"If American companies want to sell in China, they must incorporate there, register capital, and name a person to be a legal representative. To sell in Europe, we must register for their tax system and nominate a legal representative. For Europeans and Chinese to sell in the United States, none of this is needed, nor do federal taxes need to be paid.

This is .. not a bad idea, really. It would probably be annoying for small EU and UK exporters but less so than 10% tariffs and even less so than random day of the week tariffs. Maybe one day it could harmonise with the EU VAT system or something."

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Anonymous wrote:Trump tariffs cause layoffs at Mack Truck

https://www.pennlive.com/business/2025/04/hundreds-of-workers-to-be-laid-off-over-the-next-90-days-at-pa-plant.html

Great job creating more manufacturing jobs!

FYI this blog post explaining why tariffs won't bring manufacturing back to the US written by a manufacturing entrepreneur.

https://www.molsonhart.com/blog/america-underestimates-the-difficulty-of-bringing-manufacturing-back

Some of the ones that stuck in my head:

Even with high tariffs, it's still cheaper to make stuff overseas.

The supply chain for industrial materials doesn't exist here anymore. So couldn't make most things even if wanted to.

Americans don't want to do manufacturing jobs, aren't even healthy enough to endure them, and would need to move rural where the factory is.

No one wants to build a factory in the US now because the rules (including tariffs) that will determine their profit/costs can change in a single tweet.

the way to do it was what the CHIPs and Science Act laid out and funded.

Under Biden, investment in manufacturing was coming back.

Trump has killed it, and now he has alienated our closest trading partners and every market is seeking alternatives like China getting soy from Brazil now. Those new trading agreements won't just be broken because a democrat is back in office. It will take years/decades to undo the damage being done.

Anonymous wrote:Here's an idea from a poster on hackernews that points out something Trump could do to onshore manufacturing. HEY DOGE, here's an idea for you.

"If American companies want to sell in China, they must incorporate there, register capital, and name a person to be a legal representative. To sell in Europe, we must register for their tax system and nominate a legal representative. For Europeans and Chinese to sell in the United States, none of this is needed, nor do federal taxes need to be paid.

This is .. not a bad idea, really. It would probably be annoying for small EU and UK exporters but less so than 10% tariffs and even less so than random day of the week tariffs. Maybe one day it could harmonise with the EU VAT system or something."

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Trump tariffs cause layoffs at Mack Truck

https://www.pennlive.com/business/2025/04/hundreds-of-workers-to-be-laid-off-over-the-next-90-days-at-pa-plant.html

Great job creating more manufacturing jobs!

FYI this blog post explaining why tariffs won't bring manufacturing back to the US written by a manufacturing entrepreneur.

https://www.molsonhart.com/blog/america-underestimates-the-difficulty-of-bringing-manufacturing-back

Some of the ones that stuck in my head:

Even with high tariffs, it's still cheaper to make stuff overseas.

The supply chain for industrial materials doesn't exist here anymore. So couldn't make most things even if wanted to.

Americans don't want to do manufacturing jobs, aren't even healthy enough to endure them, and would need to move rural where the factory is.

No one wants to build a factory in the US now because the rules (including tariffs) that will determine their profit/costs can change in a single tweet.

Anonymous wrote:Trump tariffs cause layoffs at Mack Truck

https://www.pennlive.com/business/2025/04/hundreds-of-workers-to-be-laid-off-over-the-next-90-days-at-pa-plant.html

Great job creating more manufacturing jobs!

Anonymous wrote:Trump tariffs cause layoffs at Mack Truck

https://www.pennlive.com/business/2025/04/hundreds-of-workers-to-be-laid-off-over-the-next-90-days-at-pa-plant.html

Great job creating more manufacturing jobs!

Anonymous wrote:Totally bonkers. Trump is total idiot and everyone around him is manipulating him.

“Navarro isn’t one to back down during policy debates and had stridently urged Trump to keep tariffs in place, even as corporate chieftains and other advisers urged him to relent. And Navarro had been regularly around the Oval Office since Trump’s “Liberation Day” event.

So that morning, when Navarro was scheduled to meet with economic adviser Kevin Hassett in a different part of the White House, Bessent and Lutnick made their move, according to multiple people familiar with the intervention.

They rushed to the Oval Office to see Trump and propose a pause on some of the tariffs—without Navarro there to argue or push back. They knew they had a tight window. The meeting with Bessent and Lutnick wasn’t on Trump’s schedule.

The two men convinced Trump of the strategy to pause some of the tariffs and to announce it immediately to calm the markets. They stayed until Trump tapped out a Truth Social post, which surprised Navarro, according to one of the people familiar with the episode.”

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-tariff-pause-navarro-bessent-lutnick-b9e864fb

Anonymous wrote:Totally bonkers. Trump is total idiot and everyone around him is manipulating him.

“Navarro isn’t one to back down during policy debates and had stridently urged Trump to keep tariffs in place, even as corporate chieftains and other advisers urged him to relent. And Navarro had been regularly around the Oval Office since Trump’s “Liberation Day” event.

So that morning, when Navarro was scheduled to meet with economic adviser Kevin Hassett in a different part of the White House, Bessent and Lutnick made their move, according to multiple people familiar with the intervention.

They rushed to the Oval Office to see Trump and propose a pause on some of the tariffs—without Navarro there to argue or push back. They knew they had a tight window. The meeting with Bessent and Lutnick wasn’t on Trump’s schedule.

The two men convinced Trump of the strategy to pause some of the tariffs and to announce it immediately to calm the markets. They stayed until Trump tapped out a Truth Social post, which surprised Navarro, according to one of the people familiar with the episode.”

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-tariff-pause-navarro-bessent-lutnick-b9e864fb

Anonymous wrote:No takers for the "First Movers". Trump showed his hand too quickly. No sane person would make a deal that quickly in a volatile situation. Trump is too chaotic.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/white-house-pressed-fast-negotiations-105125985.html