Trump says he's 'ready to go to 500' in tariff battle with China

[jpak]

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-says-hes-ready-to-go-to-500-in-tariff-battle-with-china-2018-07-20

President Donald Trump said he could escalate his trade clash with China by placing tariffs on some $505 billion in Chinese products, representing the entire import balance with the U.S. last year. Trump made his comments during a CNBC interview on Thursday, which aired in full Friday morning. "I'm ready to go to 500," Trump said. Most recently, the U.S. and China enacted reciprocal tariffs of 25% on $34 billion in their respective imports. Although trending higher recently, the stock market has been roiled by concerns that a trade war erupting between to the two superpowers could rattle global economies

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[kimbutgar]

1. Does this dumbass not realize consumers are going to be paying more fir Chinese goods.

Go around your house and look at your stuff, the majority is made in China.. It will affect his dupfkoff supporters, let alone the rest of us.

[Freethinker65]

2. But can he go to 11?

[empedocles]

3. This 'doubling down' on the threats

used to be just the way comics would exaggerate to caricature a politician in satire - now its real a world threat. From 50 billion to 500 billion. trump has no real idea of what he is saying. Jackass.