Trump is Proven Right AGAIN
By Jim Bauer
@porwest (98902)
United States
April 7, 2025 7:43pm CST
Once again, Donald J. Trump shows, he's so far ahead of everyone else in the game, it's almost strange to me that by now, so many people have failed to figure it out.
I mean, it wasn't that long ago that Trump threatened to get the United States out of NATO if the other countries didn't increase their national defense budgets to match their agreements, and what did the other nations do in response?
Increased their national defense budgets to the agreed upon amounts.
Now, after decades of the United States being charged tariffs by nearly every single nation in the world, fully taking advantage of our generosity and "free trade" and globalization efforts, when the United States threatened reciprocal tariffs...
Trump's phone is ringing off the hook, with 70 nations fighting to make calls to the Trump administration ready to negotiate trade deals and tariffs.
The bottom line is that no matter how much the media wants to bash him, and no matter how much the haters want to hate him, Trump is looking out for the interests of the American people, drawing a VERY hard line in the sand, and making it clear that WE are the leader of the free world, and the buck LITERALLY stops here.
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10 responses
@terri0824 (5128)
• United States
8 Apr
@porwest I think the way you do...and I'm flabbergasted by the one's that don't see it that way. The only thing I can come up with is because they have bought into the media Te lie vision. They have been gaslighted to the point that they don't realize the truth when they are presented it. What I don't get is the last administration they didn't even comment on how bad it was.
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@xander6464 (45011)
• Wapello, Iowa
8 Apr
@kareng We don't drink kool-aid! It has artificial coloring in it. BAD for you!!!
------That sounds like a dangerously Woke attitude to me.
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@porwest (98902)
• United States
8 Apr
At the end of the day, and Trump always made this clear, that what he is most interested in overall is FAIRNESS. And that's the key here. Okay, you don't want to come to the table and talk? Fine. We'll give you a very strong incentive to CONSIDER coming to the table. Because when you are the #1 consumer in the world and the #1 importer in the world, if anyone wants to do business with us, WE are the one who really has the power to negotiate the terms. Not them.
Tariff or no tariff, Trump just wants something that actually works for the American people, American interests, and mostly, American workers who he has clearly identified as the underdogs here. I think the left should take notice when the UAW, Teamsters and other powerful unions are now on Trump's side, having recognized that TRUMP recognizes the problem that has been part of the problem of so many American workers losing opportunities for good, higher wage paying jobs in this country.
People simply jump to conclusions and when it comes to Trump they immediately assume it's all bad and CAN'T be good, and they have this irrational idea Trump is trying to upend America when really all he's doing is recognizing where we've gotten things wrong and is trying to make them right, because as a result of all of the former bad policies, Americans really have gotten screwed.
He said it 30 years ago. He's saying it now. The difference between 30 years ago and now is that he actually has the opportunity to make it right. He may still get it wrong. Many presidents do. But at least he should be given the chance to BE wrong before he is immediately deemed that.
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@vandana7 (101672)
• India
8 Apr
Tariffs prevented influx into the US. Had the US been the super rich nation, there would be more rushing towards it...so what is given away keeps the disease away like vaccine....small doses....of weakened virus.
I believe he could have helped the world and the US better if he had imposed conditions with tariffs, like ...I will impose only10 percent tariffs, if you can bring down your population by 1/10th by year ......... Yeah, that would help India very much...and the world too, by making it less polluting world...how much garbage does a single individual generate in lifetime? Calculate that....and multiply with how much we are polluting. Ultimately, it is as much of your earth as mine.
Same with jobs...you want jobs? Bring down the population, and show us improvement in your law and order system.
Such things force other countries to improve and if they do, there will be fewer immigrants to the US.
I also believe that everyone should have something they fear losing...especially in monetary terms. If they have that fear, they will steer clear of any controversy and try to remain peaceful because of that fear.
If they have little or nothing to lose, then they can become terrorists.
The other variety that becomes terrorist is the group that has too much, and can afford to employ others to do their dirty job of terrorism.
I am not a communist, just someone who likes to extrapolate situations.
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@porwest (98902)
• United States
10 Apr
Tariffs will NOT prevent influx of things into the United States. We are the world's #1 largest consumer of all products in the world and the world's #1 importer. The last thing people anywhere are interested in is losing their best customer, so what the tariffs do is to at least bring negotiations to the table so that what we get and what they get is fairer for everyone. Which is Trump's aim, by the way ABOVE the tariffs.
The tariffs serve more to start the conversation than to collect actual dollars. Because Trump DID offer MANY conditions and ultimatums around them. Canada is a good example of that considering we wanted border issues addressed as well as some concessions on our military assistance to them, pipelines and other things.
As for India's pollution problems, that's an internal governmental and regulatory failure on India's part. It's not like technology is out there, for example, to massively reduce carbon emissions, as the United States has done, and more than any other country. India simply isn't interested in it.
As for population control, it's an idea and concept that seems barbaric to me and I would not be onboard any such effort. I thought it was a horrible idea that China imposed child limits on citizens. Not in any world I live in would I want this to be something.
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@kaylachan (76777)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
8 Apr
I find it shocking how many people want to burry their heads in the sand here. And, I can't blame it on Gen z either, or the entitled generation as I like to call it. While the vast majority of them grew up with social media and don't know any better. I find it equally as shocking how many seniors haven't figured it out, or those in-between. How, those who claim to be tough as nails, will cling to mass media as if it were the word of god and flow with those prone to panic, when they hear things like cut social security.... orterrifs without knowing what they are, much less that Trump wasn't the first president to utlize them. That those same people complain about eliggles rapping and killing their kids, but are blind to the fact, that the two most dangerous counteries are those that physically boarder the U.S. and had open boarders, and past presidents just let them walk on by..... like.... wtf?
And, yet, I am not as shocked as I claim to be, because suddenly research is a four letter word.
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@lifecoachjerusalem (1317)
• Israel
8 Apr
Tariffs are a tax that the consumer pays when the imported product comes into the country. By buying imported goods, the consumer is paying the tax. The Importer pays the tariff and passes the cost to the consumer. But there are so many products nowadays that use imported parts so the final price of the product is going to be higher. Stop buying imported goods? almost impossible. It is hard to know if a product is made in the USA totally or not.
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@porwest (98902)
• United States
8 Apr
The weird thing about the idea of tariffs to me is how many people say they are bad, while at the same time failing to recognize that every single other nation on the planet uses them. If they are so bad, why DOES every other country use them? Beyond that, what people also fail to understand is that the Trump's Liberation Day tariffs are RECIPROCAL tariffs, meaning we are charging them to other nations who charge US tariffs already, AND the reciprocal tariffs are mostly roughly HALF of the tariffs charged to us with some exceptions.
It's about fairness and it's also about asserting our position in the world as the #1 importer and #1 consumer of all products in the world.
American workers have suffered at the hands of globalization, and all we have left, really, are retail and fast-food jobs which we all know, pay low wages. The left has been fighting for years to raise the minimum wage. But the only reason it's even ever been felt to be necessary to argue for it is because OF the bulk of jobs coming from retail and fast-food because all the factories have left.
PART of Trump's plan is to offer an incentive for some of these factories to come here. Hey, if you want us to buy your stuff, then HIRE us to make some of it. It's not too much to ask that the American people receive some of the benefits of making things they want us to buy.
But you're right. People aren't bothering to actually KNOW what they are talking about. They just want to PRETEND they know.
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@jaylar (1203)
• Kingston, Jamaica
8 Apr
@lifecoachjerusalem the ignorance of Trump is startling. This isn't the 1950s where everything comes from the US. In my country, just about everything comes from China.
If you stand on the road you'll see cars from Japan, Korea, a few from Germany, almost nothing from the US. If you go to buy a fridge a microwave, a coffee maker... China.
If they want to put tariffs on what they buy from us... cool.
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@lovebuglena (45937)
• Staten Island, New York
9 Apr
No matter what Trump does the mass media will be all over him, spewing negativity about the guy who is fighting for his people. He’ll do great things and they still won’t sing his praises.
Trump knows what he is doing. And what he is doing with the tariffs thing will benefit us in the end.
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@xander6464 (45011)
• Wapello, Iowa
10 Apr
No matter what Trump does the mass media will be all over him, spewing negativity about the guy who is fighting for his people. He’ll do great things and they still won’t sing his praises.
------The rapist has only ever fought for himself. He has never done anything for anyone else ever. It's a common trait among convicted felons.
@lovebuglena (45937)
• Staten Island, New York
10 Apr
@xander6464 He was convicted on bogus charges to try and prevent him from running for president. Their plan obviously didn’t work because he is in the Oval Office. And he is delivering on his promises.
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@dgobucks226 (36412)
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12 Apr
Trump has talked about countries ripping us off since the 80's which I did not know so it makes sense he has decided to make good on his campaign promise. I can't figure out the legacy media's up in arms reaction to the tariffs. Didn't they listen to his campaign speeches. I mean they were at his rallies.
Trump is a gambler, and this is a bold and unprecedented economic move long overdue. Those before him did not have the courage to confront the disparity in trade. Trump is trying to keep our economy from collapsing trying to undo the damage Biden and the Democrats left him. Already March's interest rate has come down. Oil prices have come down, Corporations are moving their operations back to the U.S.
The sad thing is I watched Bloomberg, and those idiots are actually rooting for a recession and a stock market crash. What will they say when Trump's policies succeed yet again? I'm sure they won't give him any credit for the turnaround.
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@xander6464 (45011)
• Wapello, Iowa
8 Apr
Jim, you really need to be in the Trump Junk Drawer. What you lack in class and money, you more than make up for in blind loyalty and stupidity.
If I didn't know you, I would find it strange that you don't see crashing the world's economy as a bad thing. Making Americans suffer is your brand and you're proud of it.
Thank God, at least some of your fellow cult members are starting to smarten up.

@xander6464 (45011)
• Wapello, Iowa
13 Apr
@porwest Crashing the world's economy, hey? Sure thing, bud. Let me know when someone lifts that rock you're under.
-------Havve you looked at the stock market lately? Do you know what the stock market is? Did you see how much President Musk has in Tesler alone?
Why do you think idiot boy "paused" the tariffs? Because the entire economy was crashing and he was looking at another impeachment.

@moffittjc (123640)
• Gainesville, Florida
9 Apr
it looks like we'll have some short-term economic pain to ensure long-term economic viability. The end game is to have fair trade between all nations. For too long we have been trading on unfavorable terms. Although right now we don't know the ultimate outcome of Trump's actions, I think in the end we'll have more favorable trading conditions with other nations.
@BACONSTRIPSXXX (14946)
• Torrington, Connecticut
9 Apr
I agree, it wont happen overnight but were on the right track!
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@porwest (98902)
• United States
10 Apr
Some things take time, they take risky bets, but the fruits will show one day. He is doing everything I voted for him to do, and hey, there may be some short-term pain. But as the old saying goes, no pain, no gain. We've done the easy things for too long and look where that's gotten us. It's time to do the harder things and actually make some progress, here.
