Trump claims '200' tariff deals, phone call with Chinese President Xi in wide-ranging interview

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

President Donald Trump, in a wide-ranging interview with Time magazine published Friday, claimed he's already "made 200 deals" on tariffs and said he's spoken with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

In the cover story, in which Trump's discussed his first 100 days in office, the president was asked about White House trade adviser Peter Navarro’s prediction of "90 deals in 90 days."

"I’ve made 200 deals," Trump said. When asked to confirm that number, Trump said "100%."

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Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun on Thursday called the administration's claims active discussions were happening "fake news." On Friday, the Jiakun said "China and the United States have not consulted or negotiated on the tariff issue" and "the United States should not confuse the public."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-claims-200-tariff-deals-123030824.html

[Doodley]

1. I've made 200 deals. 100% But I can't show you them or talk about any details. Utter BS!

[underpants]

5. Because the deal is a deal that I choose.

Can you share with whom?

Because the deal is a deal that I choose. View it differently: We are a department store, and we set the price. I meet with the companies, and then I set a fair price, what I consider to be a fair price, and they can pay it, or they don't have to pay it. They don't have to do business with the United States, but I set a tariff on countries. Some have been horrible to us. Some have been okay. Nobody's been great. Nobody's been great. Everybody took advantage of us. What I'm doing is I will, at a certain point in the not too distant future, I will set a fair price of tariffs for different countries. These are countries—some of them have made hundreds of billions of dollars, and some of them have made just a lot of money. Very few of them have made nothing because the United States was being ripped off by every, almost every country in the world, in the entire world. So I will set a price, and when I set the price, and I will set it fairly according to the statistics, and according to everything else.

[underpants]

2. It's a rambling incoherent mess. He mentions Biden 16 times.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20269008

[Ping Tung]

3. When Trump doesn't have the facts during an interview he just makes some up.

[Carlitos Brigante]

4. Well, I just hung up with Erdogan and he promised me 500 deals. So there! nt

[walkingman]

6. The man lies everytime he opens his mouth.

[doc03]

7. We dont trade with that many countries.

[NickB79]

8. There are 195 countries in the entire world

It's completely insane.