Trump won't call China a currency manipulator, praises Yellen and Exp-Im-Bank

[ApatheticAustrian]

Trump Says Dollar ‘Getting Too Strong,’ Won’t Label China a Currency Manipulator
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-says-dollar-getting-too-strong-wont-label-china-currency-manipulator-1492024312

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Checkmate

[Santander]

The movement is dead. It's time for regime change.

[Beet]

Good.

China has been trying to prop up its currency, not hold it down.

A strong dollar is bad for American exports, manufactures, and workers

Yellen has been a good Fed Chair so far.

3/3 for Trump on this one.

[ApatheticAustrian]

i am not criticizing trump at all, it is just.....ludicrous...how fast and radical he is changing his positions.

how could any fan of his campaign rhetoric swallow that? even while i get, that lots of never-trumpers like him more now.

[Hindsight was 2020]

i am not criticizing trump at all, it is just.....ludicrous...how fast and radical he is changing his positions.

how could any fan of his campaign rhetoric swallow that? even while i get, that lots of never-trumpers like him more now.

Because they care about banning muslims, the wall, an pissing off libtards more than that economic populism stuff

[Santander]

China has been trying to prop up its currency, not hold it down.

That doesn't matter. It's like building the wall.

Trump said he would call China a currency manipulator on his first day as President. It's about the psychological victory of sticking a kielbasa in the dragon's eye.

[courts]

The movement is dead. It's time for regime change.

based on his own statements it looks like he's trying to cut a deal with china over north korea. i suspect the strike in syria (which to be clear, i still strongly oppose) had more to do with that than anything else.

[Gass3268]

The dollar plummeted after commenting that the dollar was too strong.

[ProudModerate2]

LOL.
I laugh at how he conned so many in the electorate.
Idiots out there who actually believed the orange-haired clown and all his bs.

[Dr. Arch]

The dollar plummeted after commenting that the dollar was too strong.

Sigh...

[ApatheticAustrian]

in unrelated news, Jared seemingly has domesticated Bannon as a friendly pet monkey.


#BREAKING ppl close to Bannon say he will accept smaller role in @WhiteHouse and "work things out" w @jaredkushner. More NOW @FoxBusiness!
https://twitter.com/CGasparino/status/852247466468573188

i can't get enough of all this winning.

[Beet]

China has been trying to prop up its currency, not hold it down.

That doesn't matter. It's like building the wall.

Trump said he would call China a currency manipulator on his first day as President. It's about the psychological victory of sticking a kielbasa in the dragon's eye.

The truth doesn't matter?

[#gravelgang #lessiglad]

Good.

China has been trying to prop up its currency, not hold it down.

A strong dollar is bad for American exports, manufactures, and workers

Yellen has been a good Fed Chair so far.

3/3 for Trump on this one.

[Gass3268]

Does Bannon survive the week?

[KingSweden]

LOL what a cuck

In all seriousness, Trump sounding very non-insane today between these comments and him sounding like a normal US President re: NATO. Credit where it's due, I suppose

[Hindsight was 2020]

So Trump just said he will let another "awful" trade deal with China in order to stop NK

[ApatheticAustrian]

Does Bannon survive the week?

seemingly as i posted above.

in unrelated news, Jared seemingly has domesticated Bannon as a friendly pet monkey.


#BREAKING ppl close to Bannon say he will accept smaller role in @WhiteHouse and "work things out" w @jaredkushner. More NOW @FoxBusiness!
https://twitter.com/CGasparino/status/852247466468573188

i can't get enough of all this winning.

[Gass3268]

Does Bannon survive the week?

seemingly as i posted above.

in unrelated news, Jared seemingly has domesticated Bannon as a friendly pet monkey.


#BREAKING ppl close to Bannon say he will accept smaller role in @WhiteHouse and "work things out" w @jaredkushner. More NOW @FoxBusiness!
https://twitter.com/CGasparino/status/852247466468573188

i can't get enough of all this winning.

Missed your post, but if all of these policy reversals my question still stands.

[heatcharger]

I suspect Gary Cohn is exerting his influence here. It should've been obvious to everyone that Trump is the most malleable person to ever hold public office -- he's never held a concrete position for more than like two years on anything. I did not, however, expect him to surround himself with so many "globalists" and "neocons" that would shape him into whatever this current version of Trump is.

[Santander]

I suspect Gary Cohn is exerting his influence here. It should've been obvious to everyone that Trump is the most malleable person to ever hold public office -- he's never held a concrete position for more than like two years on anything. I did not, however, expect him to surround himself with so many "globalists" and "neocons" that would shape him into whatever this current version of Trump is.

China and Japan eating our lunch, the stupidity of our leaders, opposition to Middle Eastern intervention...

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

The dollar plummeted after commenting that the dollar was too strong.

Sigh...

Why the sigh? Trump just saved America with one comment. Amazing! Little Donny has come so far from asking Mike Flynn if we want a strong or weak dollar. That cements his place in history!! What a month!

[heatcharger]

I suspect Gary Cohn is exerting his influence here. It should've been obvious to everyone that Trump is the most malleable person to ever hold public office -- he's never held a concrete position for more than like two years on anything. I did not, however, expect him to surround himself with so many "globalists" and "neocons" that would shape him into whatever this current version of Trump is.

China and Japan eating our lunch

True, but once Japanese domination of trade became ingrained, Trump gave it up. Pretty easy to infer that he would eventually do the same with China.

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lol

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Nah, "I'm really good at war. I love war." "I wanna be unpredictable." There was always enough proof to show he's had a fascination with war, and all it took was a little convincing by Ivanka and some pictures to push him into pressing the button on escalating matters with Syria.

[Person Man]

The word "cuck" is brought up here. Who are they?

[The_Doctor]

Trump's rapid surrender to the traditional Republican positions is an amazing sight to behold. But again what choice do his alt right supporters have? They have to swallow Trump being a traditional neoliberal Republican president outside immigration and a Muslim ban. At the end of the day Trump will also attempt a Gang of Eight immigration deal by 2018. Electoral politics mandate it. And again his supporters have no real choice but to stomach it.

Trump also endorsed the Export-Import Bank and his business backers want the free trade regime to continue with China. That's the main reason and the North Korean deal is a secondary one. He needs the financial support of the donors and the small business Republicans. There's a reason he linked the two topics together in the same interview - he's telegraphing that he's going to be a big business Republican.

Yes the alt right was conned by a master con man. The tears are awesome to watch.

[The_Doctor]

Trumpy is also changing his tune because the alt right isn't a serious populist or ideological movement with a developed ideology and a record of fighting for it. The alt right is literally a feeling, not a serious political movement. As a result Trumpy can basically use and abuse the ideology as he sees fit. He holds the cards, not the movement.

The long established neoliberal Republican ideology has a more powerful following and a longer track record and more respectable and influential supporters. Trump's gonna go with the reigning Republican ideology 99/100 times.

The apostasies will continue.