Really, really bad

Tritler goes full crazy.

President Trump said on Saturday that he had brought up with America’s closest allies the dramatic prospect of completely eliminating tariffs on goods and services, even as he threatened to end all trade with his counterparts if they didn’t stop what he said were unfair trade practices.

Speaking to reporters at the end of a contentious weekend meeting of the Group of 7 nations in a resort town outside of Quebec City, Mr. Trump said that eliminating all trading barriers would be “the ultimate thing.” But he railed about what he called “ridiculous and unacceptable” tariffs on American goods and vowed to get rid of them.

“It’s going to stop. Or we’ll stop trading with them. And that’s a very profitable answer, if we have to do it,” Mr. Trump said, adding, “We’re like the piggy bank that everybody’s robbing, and that ends.”

Paul Krugman says those tariffs DON’T EXIST.

Mr. Trump’s comments came during a wide-ranging news conference as he prepared to depart for a summit meeting in Singapore with Kim Jong-un, the reclusive leader of North Korea. Mr. Trump said he would know within the first minute of his face-to-face meeting whether Mr. Kim was serious about eliminating his nuclear weapons and attempting to make peace with the world.

“Just my touch, my feel. That’s what I do,” Mr. Trump said. “You know, the way they say you know if you’re going to like somebody in the first five seconds. Did you ever hear that one? Well, I think that very quickly I’ll know whether or not something good is going to happen.”

Oh godddddddd he’s so stupid. He can’t know any such thing at a glance, and a guy who’s stupid enough to think he can and act on it should not be anywhere near government. He’s perfectly capable of instantly deciding he loves Kim and giving away the store while getting nothing in return. It’s pretty obvious that he’s already decided that and is using the Magic Glance bullshit as cover.

In his remarks to questions on Saturday, Mr. Trump repeatedly insisted that the private discussions with his counterparts had been positive, saying that “the relationship that I’ve had with the people, the leaders of these countries has been — I would really rate it on the scale of zero to 10, I would rate it a 10.”

Or on a scale of zero to seventy leventy trillion, he would rate it a seventy leventy trillion, because he’s just that good.

Mr. Trump said some of the other leaders he met with during the Group of 7 summit appeared to admit that their trade arrangements with the United States were unfair.

“A lot of these countries actually smile at me when I’m talking,” he said. “And the smile is, ‘we couldn’t believe we got away with it.’ That’s the smile.”

No, Don, that’s not the smile. The smile is of awed contempt.

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