Sen. Ted Cruz has begged President Donald Trump to stop listening to the tariff hawks in his administration and “take the deal” countries are offering to lower trade barriers.

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  • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
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    4 days ago

    Exactly. He’s been holding onto this notion for decades, and no one has ever disabused him of it. Now he’s a mentally declining old idiot and it’s too late to teach him that he’s wrong.

    This is why Bessent is trying to bail. He’s never been a fan of this “tariff everyone” approach, and it’s now finally occurred to him that he’s going to get the blame to cover Trump’s ass.

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      3 days ago

      Can’t tell narcissists they’re wrong, they just lash out. If he believes he’s right he’ll make 8000 excuses as to why his plan failed. IV seen it before in the family my aunt married into. Even when wrong they were never wrong, until a “higher ranking” narcissists in the family bullied them into submission. Sadly, no higher ranking narcissist than the president