@Doctor-Phibes said in Trumpenomics:
@Jolly said in Trumpenomics:
When was the first time Trump proposed tariffs?
Forty years ago. Be he right, be he wrong, this is not new.
Having a bad idea for forty years doesn't make it any better. It just indicates an inability to listen and learn.
Forty years ago was around the time the Reagan Administration was floating the idea of a free trade agreement with Canada. By the end of 1987 negotiators reached an agreement and the Canada USA Free Trade Agreement was signed by Reagan and Mulroney the following year.
Forty years ago was when an immature Trump must have identified as a protectionist Democrat opposed to free trade. I think he has flipped party affiliations about five or six times in the past forty years.
The forty year excuse just doesn’t stand up to any scrutiny. It is yet another lame attempt to throw in a distractor from the actual issue at hand. Namely, a bastard con masquerading as the mango Moses is determined to burn down the global economy of the last eighty years.