[floxy]

>Tariffs may not even last 4 months.

(c) Should any trading partner take significant steps to remedy non-reciprocal trade arrangements and align sufficiently with the United States on economic and national security matters, I may further modify the HTSUS to decrease or limit in scope the duties imposed under this order.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/regu...

[Tadpole9181]

Written as if he was a king.

"I can do whatever I want, whenever I want. Bow and appease me".

[atoav]

Yeah but we Europeans told you for decades that your presidency is dangerously overpowered. Guess some things you have to find out yourself.

[tialaramex]

Even the Americans, the State Department has (had?) people whose job is to help with nation building and they'd learned that if you copy-paste the US model you're basically just setting up a dictatorship in advance, the "President" will seize power, whoops.

It's impressive they got to forty odd Presidents with only one civil war so far, but it's just luck and it didn't last.

[Tadpole9181]

100% I have been raving about this for as long as I remember. Most folk nod, but say "it could never happen here".

[flubert]

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Tom+Wolfe+%22dark+night%22&t=ffab&...