Trump doesn’t want to be a loser – that’s why he makes all the losers
After his meeting with Donald Trump on Monday, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told him that he was now going to rectify the commercial balances between the countries. Since Israel exports to a greater value than is purchased from the United States, the country based on Trump’s model on inventive customs barriers has been given « response duties » at 17 percent.
So it is not about real obstacles, but just about Americans buying more than they sell. Other reasons for this, such as that Americans are richer and therefore can afford to buy more or that some goods are easier and cheaper to manufacture elsewhere, in Trump’s world is irrelevant. If there is a difference, it must be because the wicked world actively prevents American exports.
On the question of a leveled However, trade balance between the US and Israel would mean lowered US customs responded the US President « Maybe not ». You get so much to lie down flat.
For Trump is a « deal » that you are cheating someone and contracts are not worth the paper they are written on.
Trump does not just dislike trade imbalance, he dislikes trade in himself. One reason is that he does not understand what it is.
He cannot understand that an exchange between two parties can ever benefit both. There must always be one who wins and one who loses in his world. He also does not understand that which is the basis for all peaceful trade: the voluntarily entered binding contract. For him, a « deal » is that you are deceiving someone and contracts are not worth the paper they are written on.
This is clearly both In his politics – which when he himself negotiated the trade agreement in North America just to then break it – and in his life as a businessman, who is lined by subcontractors who were blown on their money.
Therefore, he is so obsessed with the commercial balance. He does not understand that different conditions in different countries mean that both the buyer and the one who sells can win on an imbalance.
If Apple was forced to manufacture the iPhone in the United States, a phone would cost at least $ 30,000. The buyers would be so few that it would not be worth it. Although the Asian workers who now make the phones were given decent working conditions, the difference would be huge.
But for Trump are Americans who today happily buy phones made in Asia losers. He does not want to be one Loser. Therefore, he throws the whole world into economic depression so that everyone loses.
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