Can someone please seriously tell me why trump is starting trade wars with our allies?

[mahina]

Who benefits from this?

[LonePirate]

1. The answer to both of your questions is Putin.

[Sophia4]

6. Right.

[MyOwnPeace]

7. I'm sorry, but

your answer reflects a belief in the "Russian influence."

But that can't be true - IQ45 said that there is no such thing!

The CORRECT answer:

HE IS AN ASSHOLE!!!!!!!

[Achilleaze]

32. Bingo! KGOP repubes are selling out America under Comrade Casino*

* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

[guillaumeb]

2. Trump benefits from the endless diversion.

One assumes that Mueller is not diverted.

[librechik]

3. Putin hopes to take advantage

of any opportunities which arise from the sinking democratic ships.

[OneBro]

4. China and Russia benefit from a trade war between the US and our allies.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

5. Because he's such a fucking idiot he thinks

(and he's said as much) that trade wars are easy to win. He thinks the world economy is like the small part of NYC that he knows and abused for so many years.

[ooky]

22. Yeah, he said health care was "easy" too.

About a month from now he'll be saying "who would have believed trade wars are so hard"?

[SummerSnow]

8. Putins orders. This way he will weaken the U.S. relationships with the European nations

'loose lips, sinks ships'

[sharedvalues]

9. John Schindler says he is a "Russian agent"

Russia benefits from creating chaos in America and separating America from our allies.

[roamer65]

21. Bingo.

[MaryMagdaline]

10. He didn't get a trump hotel in Munich?

[CakeGrrl]

11. Putin

He has kompromat on Trump, and he benefits from the U.S. losing its standing in the world. He couldn't have put a better agent of destruction in the Oval Office.

Everything Trump has done has served that purpose:

** Appointing people who don't believe in our government agencies to lead them. Why? To dismantle them.
** Offending our allies and supporting dictators
** Pulling the US out of successful, hard-won alliances
** Enacting polices that fly in the face of human rights and send the US stock market into tailspins

[grantcart]

12. Mueller. He does it to divert

[NCjack]

13. because he currently has no new hotels to begin construction this year in USA.

[no_hypocrisy]

14. At his own peril.

Do you believe any of those countries will approve anything Trump from this day forward? Hotels, buildings, merchandise?

[lunatica]

15. Trump says we should be producing

what we’re importing now. For example
he doesn’t think we should be enriching other countries by importing aluminum. We should br using our own.

He is doing his best to isolate us yet be self reliant on what we need.

On the other hand he wants to punish other countries for “taking advantage of us and enriching themselves at our expense”.

In actuality he’s doing what all dictators do which is to isolate us by consolidating his control. It’s the reason for the wall and the Muslim travel ban and the refusal to allow immigration.

First he will isolate the country then he’ll lock the doors to immigrants and then he’ll probably start “purging” non desirables. There might be a lot of trials against terrorists which will include people like us. He will demand total loyalty from everyone, including the citizens.

[mahina]

16. Having seen an aluminum mine up close, I can say we should really pass on that one.

I hope we can recycle what we need to use. That mine was a devastation zone- in Canada.

[lunatica]

17. Maybe beer and soda companies will

start a recycling program for their aluminum. But Trump doesn’t care about the environment. He wants to open up our National parks to drilling for oil and mining anyway.

Then he can claim he created all those new jobs and he can triumphantly claim America Is Great Again.

[Takket]

18. Putin

[KT2000]

19. he's about breaking alliances everywhere

coalitions make all members stronger. Breaking them apart makes trump feel he is the strongest. Divide and conquer.

[dawg]

20. dawg's First Law of Clowns:

"Clowns break shit."

[Trueblue Texan]

23. Because Putin told him to!

[applegrove]

24. If more coal and aluminum plants go up in the USA, more coal is burnt

to provide the smelting power.

[JHB]

25. The answer to both questions begins with a P

[smirkymonkey]

26. Russia. Is there now any doubt that he is a Russian agent?

No collusion, my ass.

[DetlefK]

27. Okay. A serious explanation without jokes or sarcasm:

He wants a win. Any win. He doesn't care against whom he is winning or what he is winning, but he wants a win.

Because Trump is weak and needy and wants to be adored and celebrated at all cost.

[salin]

38. This.

and he surrounds himself with fringe "experts" - one throw around conspiracy theories and "what we ought to do" fringe solutions - of which I would guess this counterproductive plan is one.

[Raine]

28. I think it has something to do with coal production

one of the promises he made while campaigning.

[Mike Niendorff]

29. If we knew his market positions ...

... this might be an easier question to answer.

(* in simple terms : no, I don't put it past him AT ALL to gin up these panics in order to profiteer from the resulting market swings)


MDN

[mahina]

30. Oh of COURSE.

In addition to playing for personal political gain, nothing would surprise me less than him shorting the USA.

I hope and pray that we can know, one day soon.

[ProfessorGAC]

34. Requires Him To Have That Kind Of Liquidity

You are assuming that the free flow of capital exists to execute a profiteering scheme.

That's an assumption i can't accept. He has nowhere close to the net worth claimed. Already far too much leverage.

He would need to borrow more money to profiteer, and anyone who had the capital to lend the money would just do the profiteering on their own.

Now, had you said that the foreign puppet masters are wanting this to execute THEIR profiteering schemes, i would probably buy in.

[TimeSnowDemos]

31. Economic nationalism plus...

He doesn't understand how the economy works.

[ProfessorGAC]

35. Then He Really Is A Republican

Because none of them know how the economy works either!

[TimeSnowDemos]

37. So very true

Then again finding ANY politician who understands it as it relates to average folks is a big ask most years.

[Buns_of_Fire]

33. We still have allies? nt

[Captain Stern]

36. The moron thinks our country will benefit from it.

Also, the moron doesn't think we have, or need, any 'allies'.

The moron thinks it's 'murika against the world.