Australia’s chances of escaping America’s global steel and aluminium tariffs appear all but extinguished, with the US president reconfirming his commitment to a comprehensive tariff regime he argues will be “the greatest thing we’ve ever done as a country”.

“We’re going to take in hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs, and we’re going to become so rich, you’re not going to know where to spend all that money,” Donald Trump told reporters on board Air Force One flying from Florida to Washington DC.

“We’re basically going to take back the money – a lot of the money that we’ve given away over many decades.”

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      Yeah, I have been reading this over and over. This is what happens when a person is imprisoned in an isolated upper class society. He is sick and has no idea that the majority of his own people are already suffering. People are dying because of this horrible man and it won’t stop with those who are deemed others or people across the borders and ocean he absolutely gives zero fucks about. Before too long, it’ll be Americans who will die horribly and the country will reap repercussions for decades to come. I didn’t think I’d live to see America become the enemy, but here we are.

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        trump and his father did bully one of his brothers to alcoholism for being a pilot. he only knows how to bully people. i think that is one of the reasons why trump doesn’t touch liquor too.