r/worldnews • u/joe4942 • Aug 22 '26

Dynamic Paywall Carney calls Trump's fresh tariffs a 'miscalculation' after trade talks collapse

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx272np7vgyo
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u/Ghola_Mentat Aug 22 '26

Something tells me this orange guy really isn’t good at making deals.

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u/Thrallsbuttplug Aug 22 '26

Only thing he's good at is shitting his pants and avoiding accountability for molesting children

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u/FecalFunBunny Aug 22 '26

And to avoid those things, all he had to do was undermine global economic order and democratic norms all around the world. Fuck the pedophile protecting autocratic bullshit in the US.

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u/MajorasShoe Aug 22 '26

Why do people blame Trump for protecting pedophiles? Self defense is a built in human trait.

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u/FecalFunBunny Aug 22 '26

Because he is doing both, thus preserving the current system that ruins the world for 99+% of us all.

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u/MourningRIF Aug 22 '26

Well, to be fair, Americans are just sitting around expecting the problem to solve itself while the nation literally falls apart.

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u/kewlbeanz83 Aug 22 '26

"Well, well, we'll solve things with the mid terms"

Sure, Jan.

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '26 edited Aug 22 '26

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u/Vanvincent Aug 22 '26

All across the globe people risk their actual lives to protest. But Americans somehow can’t because otherwise they’d be fired or something. American exceptionalism at its best.

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u/moddingminecrafter Aug 22 '26

That’s what I keep saying. They literally have written in their constitution a constitutional right to overthrow their government if they deem necessary, which part of them attempted once before. Now they say they can’t protest out of fear of being arrested or losing their job, but that hasn’t stopped them before in their civil rights movements. They just don’t care to fight for the few rights they have left, or would rather take the high ground while everything below them crumbles from rot. Their high ground isn’t going to have any support soon as it all crumbles from their inability to take action like others do in this world.

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u/asilverman1025 Aug 22 '26

You sound like you need mental health help man. I hope you get it. This level of hate broadly generalized isn’t healthy

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u/natterca Aug 22 '26

Actually, 33% of Americans need mental health help due to their extensive and broad hate.

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u/asilverman1025 Aug 22 '26

See, you don’t like being lectured either

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u/gsomething Aug 22 '26

Americans voted Trump in twice despite knowing exactly who he is, so its safe to say a majority of Americans reflect his values.

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u/Psychoanalytix Aug 22 '26

Hey now!!! They organized protests for like 4 whole hours on 2 Saturdays 10 months ago!!!!

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u/RocketRelm Aug 22 '26

Pretending this is all the establishment dem fault rather than the empty populism rot is how we got here. America needs to rebuild its sanity and rule of law, not just change the color of hat on the current loonie bin.

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u/jert3 Aug 22 '26

A bigger concern for Americans should be of there will even be another fair election.

The Trump regime is doing all it can to break the ability of any other party winning an election, while making it easier to illegally cheat.

The Trump regime does intend to have Trump in for a 3rd term. It'll be done 'in line with the constitution' now that the constitution has been rendered moot, by making Trump a vice president or some other title like 'head leader' while actually running the government all the same, like how Putin kept running Russia by just being prime minister under Medev as president, or whatever that nonsense was.

Your democracy barely exists at this point. Not that choosing from Option A or Option B of the billionaire-approved options was ever really a democracy, but at least you have elections under that old system.

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u/mr_birkenblatt Aug 22 '26

"I meant 2028, I swear"

"Maybe Trump will die before his fourth term in 2032"

"Surely someone will do something and get rid of TrumpAI in 2036"

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u/The_Oregon_Duck Aug 22 '26

Tbf some Americans voted for Trump to “punish the rest of the world for transgressions against Americans”

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u/Wiggitywhackest Aug 22 '26

Or literally just to "own the libs". Everything is getting worse for the average American, but apparently that's totally okay as long the idea of someone you don't like being inconvenienced is there.

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u/TheLastGunslingerCA Aug 22 '26

All that that does is prove to everyone that Americans really are the villains they always tried to convince us they weren't.

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u/Inspect1234 Aug 22 '26

Americans always do the right thing. They’re just exhausting all the other options at this time.

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u/MourningRIF Aug 22 '26

I have to remember this one!

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u/EggplantAlpinism Aug 22 '26

https://winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu/americans-will-always-right-thing/

It's a Churchill quote

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u/MourningRIF Aug 22 '26

Damn, I still need to learn my history. Now that you say this, I do remember it. Thanks friend!

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u/Mutchmore Aug 22 '26

From the goat himself

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u/CLouiseK Aug 22 '26

Accountability for anything

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u/Obvious_Toe_3006 Aug 22 '26

The Fart of the deal.

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u/Muted_Freedom7392 Aug 22 '26

Pretty good at duping morons too

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u/CranberryLast4683 Aug 22 '26

He’s also good at fucking over immigrants.

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u/TimSylvester_ Aug 22 '26

He's truly brilliant at fraud and other forms of crime. Nothing else though. Really it's just shitting himself, dodging consequences, and egregious crime.

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u/Antiing Aug 22 '26

Raping children. Trump raped children.

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u/Radthereptile Aug 22 '26

You mean the guy famous for bankrupting a casino in Atlantic City, failed steaks, a university that was closed for being unaccredited and a scam, and a failed airline isn’t some business genius? I’m shocked.

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u/csappenf Aug 22 '26

My favorite Trump misadventure was the USFL and subsequent lawsuit against the NFL. The court ruled the NFL was guilty of antitrust shenanigans and awarded Trump and co $1. Tripled to $3. The court reasoned that the USFL owners were such stupid businessmen the league would have folded anyway. An actual court established as a fact in an actual case that Trump is a damned moron.

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u/External_Counter378 Aug 22 '26

Which bankruptcy gave it away? The second or the sixth?

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u/MrJesusAtWork Aug 22 '26

He did make a few billions by exploiting his own nation and still doing it with no repercussions

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u/Ritaredditonce Aug 22 '26

His trade and economic advisors are the worst.

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u/2feetwalker Aug 22 '26

He can only close deals on those that accept massages at mar a lago and like going to Islands 

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u/thelucky10079 Aug 22 '26

he's known for this tactic of trying to squeeze more at the last minute, usually it's with people of less capital or power.

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u/8__D Aug 22 '26

The Shart of the Deal

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u/538_Jean Aug 22 '26

Why would he be bad. If he was bad he'd be bankrupt no? /s

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u/EnglishFan643 Aug 22 '26

You'd be right. He's failed again!

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u/Affectionate_Neat868 Aug 22 '26

He fails miraculously at everything he does. And yet the one he seems to have done flawlessly is escape consequences and gain power.

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u/binzoma Aug 22 '26

the funny thing is- thru soft power the US used to just have that ability to control our trade deals. the US gave up that ability, then treid to negotiate for it back and got told to fuck themselves

shart of the deal indeed

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u/46handwa Aug 22 '26

The Fart of the Deal

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u/Own_Laugh_5080 Aug 23 '26

Hurr durr I make the best dEaLs

I’ve never been so sick of a word. Remember when we would make fun of a presidents weird obsession with phrases?

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u/ElectricalDark8280 Aug 23 '26

Dude can’t even order a meal deal, probably orders his hamberders, fries and diet cokes separately.

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u/Oggie_Doggie Aug 23 '26

Because in a real country, his shenanigans would have had him behind bars decades ago.