Trump: US considering 'stopping all trade' with countries doing business with N. Korea

[highplainsdem]

Source: The Hill

President Trump on Sunday raised the possibility of taking new actions targeting North Korea in the wake of Pyongyang's latest nuclear test.

"The United States is considering, in addition to other options, stopping all trade with any country doing business with North Korea," Trump tweeted Sunday.

Trump also said earlier in the day that North Korea “has become a great threat an embarrassment” to China, which is a major trading partner with Pyongyang.

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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Sunday warned of new sanctions after North Korea's latest test.

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Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/349058-trump-us-considering-stopping-all-trade-with-countries-doing-business

[Cryptoad]

1. Can u Say,,,,,,,,,?

400% inflation! I guess if you are GOP Oligarch $10/ loaf of bread is really not a bigly thingy!

[spiderpig]

2. Can we all say C-H-I-N-A?

Who will make Ivanka's shoes?

[tblue37]

8. Or Trump's shirts and ties? nt

[onetexan]

14. the Idiot has no clue what he's saying

[JDC]

19. He is so full of crap

Just spouts off.

[Kennah]

36. Thought it was spelled G-H-I-N-A (n/t)

[Kennah]

37. Sweatshops in 'Murica can make Ivanka's shoes (n/t)

[janterry]

3. He needs to just shut up

This is serious. NK won't bow (nor will China) to his stupid BS.

[Igel]

4. Russia?

'Nuff said.

[demmiblue]

6. JHC on a trailer hitch, he is such a dumbfuck.

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[TubbersUK]

10. Thanks, that's useful context n/t

[livetohike]

7. He would be the only person thinking about this. Confirms once

again what a complete idiot he is.

[SHRED]

9. He's a fucking idiot

But we know that.

[Shrike47]

11. Bigly threats impress his supporters. Follow up not required.

[RKP5637]

12. Aren't we in debt to China? The US has $19.8 trillion of national debt, spread around.

The U.S. debt to China is $1.102 trillion, as of May 2017. That's 28 percent of the $3.9 trillion in Treasury bills, notes, and bonds held by foreign countries. The rest of the $19.8 trillion national debt is owned by either the American people or by the U.S. government itself. For more, see Who Owns the U.S. National Debt?

https://www.thebalance.com/u-s-debt-to-china-how-much-does-it-own-3306355

[Kennah]

38. Orange Julius doesn't pay for stuff (n/t)

[onecent]

13. LOOK WHOSE CALLING someone ELSE an embarassment.....

Trump also said earlier in the day that North Korea “has become a great threat an embarrassment”

TRUMP is the big embarrassment....at least he has been in things i'm reading.

I am 72 years old.....I have listened to alot of people, AS ALL OF US THAT ARE PUSHING 70, and I
NEVER EVER heard anyone trying to take down North Korea.....THIS Drumpy is off his rocker.

[TubbersUK]

15. Aren't some of the companies in which Trump has an interest in debt to the Bank of China?

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/21/us/politics/donald-trump-debt.html?hpw&rref=politics&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

[dalton99a]

16. Deplorables better ask for a big pay raise

or ask their idiot president for a better job

[WePurrsevere]

17. Stop trade with countries doing business with NK? His even considering this...

is reflective of his abysmal LACK of knowledge on how to run a friggin COUNTRY. Apparently he doesn't have a CLUE how shutting down trade with all those doing business with NK would affect our country.

From HERE, these are just the TOP countries that do business with NK...

The top export destinations of North Korea are China ($2.34B), India ($97.8M), Pakistan ($43.1M), Burkina Faso ($32.8M) and Other Asia ($26.7M). The top import origins are China ($2.95B), India ($108M), Russia ($78.2M), Thailand ($73.8M) and the Philippines ($53.2M).

Compare that to the TOP countries the US exports to and imports from HERE...

The top export destinations of the United States are Canada ($219B), Mexico ($188B), China ($128B), Japan ($63.5B) and Germany ($63.3B). The top import origins are China ($457B), Mexico ($291B), Canada ($288B), Japan ($128B) and Germany ($122B).

Apparently this is Mnuchin's idiotic idea and Trump bought into it. Hopefully someone semi SANE on his staff, Kelly perhaps, will explain how incredibly foolish this would be for the US to implement to him and in simple enough terms that even he can understand.

[Girard442]

30. Trump is living in a comic book reality.

He probably has fantasies of punching out Kim Jong-un.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

18. How can I buy my next MAGA hat if we stop business with China? nt

[nini]

20. Considering I believe the exact opposite of what he says..

I'm not worried about how China will react.


He's such a clown.

[bucolic_frolic]

21. meanwhile

resistors considering stopping all trade with companies doing business with Trump

or hasn't anyone noticed?

[sinkingfeeling]

22. "I want to run the entire world. Just me. I'm the only one who

can run the world like I want it to be run."

[BlueIdaho]

23. Good luck with that asshole.

That should effectively empty the shelves at most stores and push millions into the unemployment lines. This TV millionaire has no idea how the real world works.

Let's ask his supporters to look around their houses and see how many of their possessions are made in China. That should sober them up...

[still_one]

24. They can try it, but I doubt it will work. Only realistic thing is to engage in face to face

negotiations, but if NK refuses to do that, then they can only continue as they are, with the clear warning that any attack by NK against a neighbor will result in immediate retaliation

[truthisfreedom]

25. His thoughtlessness knows no bounds!

How did he ever run a business?

[spiderpig]

27. Into the ground

The most bigly flimflam man the modern* world has ever seen.

*I wasn't around for the Roman Empire.

[berni_mccoy]

26. That is economic suicide. Not trading with China is not an option

[Mr.Bill]

28. His base won't like it

if he puts Walmart out of business.

[Kennah]

40. Shhhh. You'll ruin the surprise! (n/t)

[Turbineguy]

29. Like our Cuba policy

only with ultra stupid added for good measure.

[procon]

31. These ridiculous outbursts make him look stupid and weak.

His ignorance, his bloviating incompetence, has given our enemies cause to threaten us, and made our allies nervous.

How will we ever undo the global damage Trump is causing? It will take years, even decades yo recover.

[Honeycombe8]

32. China? That would almost certainly hurt our economy. nt

[TomCADem]

33. PBS: Bernie Sanders says he could work with Trump on trade policy

Haven't some liberals indicated that they would actually support Trump's policies? For example, Bernie has been pretty consistent in his support, such as back in January:

http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/315655-sanders-ill-work-with-trump-on-trade

Then, a few months later in April as noted below. Indeed, isn't Bernie's criticism that Trump has not gone far enough in rolling back trade relationships?

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/bernie-sanders-says-work-trump-trade-policy/

On the campaign trail, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and then-candidate Donald Trump both agreed that in order to revitalize the middle class, good-paying manufacturing jobs have to stay in America.

As the White House moves forward with tax reform and trade policies, Sanders reaffirmed his commitment towards protecting middle-and-working-class Americans from large corporations, indicating it’s an area on which he’d be open to working with Trump.

We have lost our manufacturing base and it’s an issue that has got to be dealt with,” Sanders told PBS NewsHour’s Judy Woodruff in an interview Tuesday. “We have to fundamentally rethink our trade policies and make them work not for the CEOs of large corporations, but for working people.”

“If Trump wants to develop a rational trade policy that demands that corporations start investing in this country instead of China, that’s something that we can work on,” he added.

[riversedge]

34. I saw a list: Saudi Arabia is one of those countries.

[Yavin4]

35. We keep missing the point. Trump only cares about his base, no one else.

And his base loves this kind of ignorant crap.

[syringis]

39. Ocean Pacific is not as deep as his ignorance.

[adigal]

41. Does the Orange Idiot realize this includes China??? If he doesn't literally kill us all

he will take this economy down in a huge crash. He is incompetent, vindictive, and unable to make connections between acts, it seems.