Steve Breen for June 01, 2018

Trade war? Higher prices for gasoline, cars, midwestern farm products.

Jobs lost in American factories and on American farms.

Alienation of our closest, most long-standing allies.

Many of the farmers in the midwest, factory workers in the Rust Belt and consumers everywhere who voted for Trump are going to remember in November.

Make America Alone Again.

But…he brought coal back, he made Mericans stand for the anthem, he built the wall (and Mexico paid for it)

What does HE care? HE got his $500,000,000 from China, so screw the rest of the world!

American workers should also be standing there with the allies.

Well, Trump voters wanted a businessman to run the country.

The right wing’s mechanical monster is out to destroy everything good in the world.

Looks like Trump has never met a contract he couldn’t renege on or a promise he couldn’t break. He has no concept of honor whatsoever.

From John Brennan: As someone who had the rare privilege of directly serving four presidents, I will continue to speak out loudly and critically until integrity, decency, wisdom — and maybe even some humility — return to the White House.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/john-brennan-i-will-speak-out-until-integrity-returns-to-the-white-house/2018/05/31/afbccafa-64e8-11e8-a69c-b944de66d9e7_story.html

The cartoon wrongly implies that there are actual contents in Trump’s brain case.

Maybe history is “fake’”?

" …

Trump’s “America First” orientation assumes that the United States, as the world’s dominant actor, can behave freely and independently in trade.

Unfortunately for the administration, America’s top economic position doesn’t shield it from the dire consequences that unilateral trade policy can provoke. The constraints on U.S. action result from the basic nature of the international economy and from America’s declining dominance of the world trade system.

It is a standard principle of economics that all individual actors exist within a system. Any action taken by one actor will likely result in a response from others. This means that wise governments, in considering which policies to adopt, must make difficult calculations about how their actions will interact with those of others.

“America First” fails to make these calculations. It disregards how America’s trading partners will respond to the new U.S. protectionism — which is also what American lawmakers ignored during the Great Depression.

…"

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/what-history-teaches-us-about-who-wins-in-trade-wars-2018-03-02

The cartoon has trump expressing himself from the wrong end..

@Darsan54: No, I don’t think so. They voted for a successful racist to run the country.

If they wanted a successful businessman, then they went for the wrong guy. He hasn’t made a good business decision since 1996, and the only reason why people think otherwise is apparently because they believe his repeated assertions to the contrary. I am an expert in assessing and developing leaders, and I can tell you he misses a lot of the key elements seen in real business leaders, but you don’t need that to prove this point — you can just look at his businesses. He’s moved from doing business to just being a con man — selling his name and screwing over investors.

This is what the entire country wants, well, this is what the Republicans want. Well, the electoral college wanted it.

At least four or five people think this is a great idea, so what’s the problem?

Canada says tariffs are insulting and will match them dollar for dollar.

Republicans are jerks.

My hamster is a better economist than Trumpster.