This makes me wonder how much of the Tariffs are extortion of other countries.

How randomly they seem to be applied to makes me wonder if theres back room deals going on.

Trump tariffs are extortion. It's orthogonal to whether it's a good policy for the US, but nobody outside the US has any doubt about it being extortion. It's not even a back room deal kind of stuff; "Give America your money or I'll raise tariffs" is how Trump is openly talking to every country.

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tastyface a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Backroom? The Korean government publicly gifted Trump a golden crown just last week!

	▲	yongjik a day ago \| parent [-]
		Well as a Korean I can't say I'm proud of what happened, but if the choice is between "get robbed by someone who fancies himself a king" and "get robbed by someone who fancies himself a king, but also get a nuclear submarine deal" ...