And franky1, trump is talking, media is reporting about it. If trump is incoherent, or wants to be cryptic about it, don't blame media for reporting what he says.
Only who never wanted to negotiate in the first place was Donald Trump, and who knows how dumb his terms are going to be and why would people accept them? Why would you think he would make any better deals then he has done in the past? Or maybe he don't remember what deals were made by him?
media is not reporting everything.. ever heard of clickbait
, provocative journalism?if you want to just take media's clipped short quotes as gospel then you are not understanding the full context of most quotes.. thats where you have to do your own research as media are crap at investigative journalism, they just want the quick quote and use it to create click bait emotionally provocative stories using their own bias opinions of interpretation
even months ago trump has been saying most of the time that tariffs are a good tool for negotiations of other things that can benefit america
remember how he wanted to implement tariffs on mexico to help negotiate terms to get them to secure the US southern border to prevent migrants. remember how he wanted to use tariffs on canada to help negotiate how canada can further secure the US northern border to prevent drugs trafficking of fentanyl compounds
did you forget so soon?
tariffs were always aimed at being a negotiation tool of political partnership deals of things unrelated to just goods transfer fees
also if you foolishly think its just trump waking up and shouting a random number for a tariff and tweeting it. you really are sounding silly..
trump is (and its public information) talking daily to his cabinet and they are the ones at the negotiation table, taking calls from countries
much like how media want to present that all doge stuff is elon.. even the email asking fed employees what 5 things they did for work last week.
reality is that it was the office of personnel management that sent the emails and were working in partnership with each departments heads which is whom the employees had to reply to.. not elon
and no thy were not fired on the spot, they were given severance should they choose to take it, giving them a wage until september
hope that clarifies points you didnt pick up on from whatever media source you use..
.. still think media are the source of gospel truth, just look at the numerous times they got details of bitcoin completely wrong over the years