Donald Trump has continually insisted that deals over his tariffs are coming.

Donald Trump claimed Tuesday that the U.S. doesn’t “have to sign” any trade deals, inadvertently admitting that his administration hasn’t made any progress during the 90-day pause on his disastrous tariffs.

During a tense meeting to discuss tariffs with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, the president attempted to move the goal posts on actually completing any agreements with foreign countries.

“Everyone says, ‘When, when, when, are you going to sign deals?’ We don’t have to sign deals!” Trump said.

    • TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Of course you’re not wrong that he’s lying out his ass, but fwiw multiple trade deals can occur between two nations, over different types of products or industries or at different times.

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        Yes that is true, but if you make them in such a short time, that he had made 200 of them in a month, wouldn’t it be extremely unlikely to be multiple separate trade deals per country?
        Even if he made deals with half the countries on earth, he would need more than 2 deals on average per country!
        Aand this should have happened in less than a month, so he should have made on average almost 7 deals per day!! Completely disregarding that trade deals generally are complex and usually take months and even years to negotiate!

        The point was that the lie is absurd, and that’s not even debatable.

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      “He never said they were Earthly nations. He’s making deals with nations across the galactic empire!” - One of Trump’s 20 billion supporters.

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      Never a good thing to surround yourself with the fellationati

      When you can’t tell a good lie from a plastic nod-and-smile lie, your brain porridge starts to congeal a little too fast