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   From: leroysoetoro@americans-first.com   
      
   https://floppingaces.net/most-wanted/the-truth-heard-round-the-world-   
   trumps-tariff-ultimatum-drops-like-a-bomb/   
      
   Yesterday, Politico ran a story headlined, “’Shock. Frustration. Anger.’   
   Trump’s tariff letters roil Asian allies.” On Monday, Trump posted a slew   
   of tariff letters addressed to other countries on his Truth Social   
   account, shattering more ‘standards and norms’ by ignoring normal   
   diplomatic channels. By the response, you’d think he joked about pushing   
   the nuclear button or something.   
      
   Trump unleashed letters to 14 foreign governments —10 from Asia—   
   threatening new tariffs starting August 1st, unless the countries make   
   better efforts to broker deals. During yesterday’s Cabinet meeting, the   
   President quipped the United States wants good relationships with   
   countries, “but in every case, they treated us far worse than I’m treating   
   them.”   
      
   They didn’t like it. “We have no idea what the hell he’s sending, who he’s   
   sending it to, or how he’s sending it,” complained an unnamed official   
   from one of the governments targeted in the letters.   
      
   I guess they didn’t like finding out on Truth Social. Turns out, ‘breaking   
   news’ from Trump’s feed isn’t how they imagined their next round of trade   
   negotiation would begin.   
      
   If you think about it, Trump first redefined how government communicates   
   with the public. Now nearly every world leader has an active social media   
   account. That’s no minor adjustment for technology; it cuts corporate   
   media right out of the middle. Government officials can communicate   
   directly with citizens all day, every day, without media filters.   
      
   Corporate media has been reduced. Reduced from gatekeeper to stenographer.   
   Trump has inverted the whole dynamic. Instead of public officials begging   
   (or coercing) media to carry their messages, media has been forced to   
   report what Trump said on his own social media platform, each time trying   
   to stuff some Trumpian genie or other back into its gilded information   
   bottle.   
      
   Now, Trump is rewriting the script for how governments talk to each other.   
   Forget embassies—foreign ministries now need entire departments just to   
   monitor Trump’s Truth Social feed, lest they miss the next tariff   
   ultimatum, war warning, or offhand offer to annex Greenland.   
      
   Trump’s not just bypassing the media. He’s making other nations reactive.   
   He’s turned international diplomacy into a game of high-stakes whack-a-   
   mole— and he’s holding the mallet.   
      
      
   --   
   November 5, 2024 - Congratulations President Donald Trump.  We look   
   forward to America being great again.   
      
   We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that   
   stupid people won't be offended.   
      
   Every day is an IQ test. Some pass, some, not so much.   
      
   Thank you for cleaning up the disasters of the 2008-2017, 2020-2024 Obama   
   / Biden / Harris fiascos, President Trump.   
      
   Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the   
   The World According To Garp.  Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood   
   queer liberal democrat donors.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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