4.9.25 – C&C News
“Over 70 Countries Now Negotiating Because of the Tariffs”
By Jeff Childers – Practicing Attorney and well-known author
Excerpts from this article:
In 1987, Trump published The Art of the Deal.
It was a worldwide instruction manual.
The Trump Administration announced yesterday that OVER 70 COUNTRIES are in active negotiations with the US [because of tariffs].
Our delighted National Economic Council Director, Kevin Hassett, complained happily to Fox that they are “managing a massive amount of requests for negotiations.”
I was especially interested in Mr. Hassett’s comment that “there are a heck of a lot of concessions on the table.
In the end, the President will be the one to decide whether the deal is good enough to change his mind about the tariffs.”
First, we learned for a fact that they aren’t only negotiating tariff rates...
PRES. TRUMP NEGOTIATING EVERYTHING
President Trump confirmed this in his enthusiastic tweet about discussions with the South Koreans.
Saying he was dealing with “many countries,” Trump stressed that “we are bringing up other subjects that are not covered by Trade and Tariffs, and getting them negotiated also.”
He calls it one-stop shopping.
Specifically, and in all-caps, with triple exclamation marks, the President said, “‘ONE STOP SHOPPING’ is a beautiful and efficient process!!!”
…Trump isn’t just negotiating trade deals.
He’s resetting America’s relationship with every other foreign government and putting our previously [U. S.] one-way aid pipeline up for profitable sale.
With the South Koreans, for example, Trump referenced requiring them to pay for our military protection against North Korea, a permanent fixture since the end of the Korean war.
This has nothing to do with trade, but it means billions in income for the US, for something we’re already doing anyway…
…Leverage is everything.
TRUMP HOLDS ALL THE CARDS
Trump spent his first 60 days securing the leverage and now he holds all the cards.
TRUMP DECIDES
As Mr. Hassett said, only “the President will be the one to decide whether the deal is good enough.”
Not Congress.
Not the State Department.
Not the Cabinet.
Not the CIA.
Not the World Trade Organization.
Just Trump…
Yesterday, President Trump signed another massive executive order engineered to unleash more domestic energy production, which will lower costs, boost employment, and strengthen the dollar….
TARIFFS ALREADY BRINGING IN $2 BILLION A DAY – MORE THAN $700 BILLION A YEAR
…the President said the tariffs were already bringing in $2 billion a day — or more than $700 billion a year.
“We’re doing very well,” he said. And it’s just getting started.
…squeeze value from every contractor and supplier. And now he’s squeezing value from every Prime Minister and Crown Prince.
As we’ve previously suspected, this is about much more than trade.
Trump is using the universal tariffs to force every other country on Earth to come to him, fast, so he can quickly fix nearly every problem that America has with other countries, and also to get the cash flowing back from the entire world back to the United States— not just through trade, but literally in every other way the President can think of.
…No President has ever brought the entire world to heel —without launching a drone!
And yet Trump, the Dealmaker, has literally done it in days.
TRUMP NEGOTIATING WITH THE WORLD
…No U.S. president has ever simultaneously negotiated with the entire planet over everything — not just trade, but security guarantees, foreign aid, market access, immigration enforcement, energy deals, pharmaceutical policy, and so on— and done it openly, using tariffs as the primary pressure mechanism, rather than through military force, strings on IMF loan, CIA black ops, soft power, or covert destabilization.
… he’s wielding tariffs as a universal negotiation tool, forcing countries to come to the table, not just to talk about widgets and steel, but to extract much broader concessions on things like military cost-sharing, tech regulation, currency manipulation, and who knows what else.
The concept that “only the President will decide whether the deal is good enough” is radical.
It sidelines interagency red tape, State Department holdups, deep state slow-walking, congressional committees, legislative horse trading, and of course, the multinational bureaucracies.
It is stylistically autocratic but perfectly legal.
…Sure other Presidents have bribed other countries, slowly, one-by-one, by showering them with treasure chests of taxpayer dollars.
But bribing is easy.
Anyone can sell a bribe.
No president — not even in wartime — has ever centralized and personally wielded global negotiating leverage like this, over this many countries, this fast, and in peacetime.
Trump has skillfully positioned the U.S. presidency as the checkout window at the international drive-through.
TRUMP NOT BRIBING – MAKING REAL DEALS
He’s not bribing them.
Trump is making real deals, using America’s hegemonic economic leverage to ensure we get exactly what we want from every single country.
The countries aren’t playing hard to get, either. They’re queuing up outside the Oval Office.
…Since before his first term, progressives screeched that Trump was an orange-colored, fascistic cartoon billionaire oligarch, secretly selling out the working class to help his billionaire buddies get even richer.
TRUMP IS FOR WORKING CLASS – NOT THE WEALTHY
But now he’s tanked the stock market on behalf of the working class.
Half of Americans don’t own stocks. All they have is debt.
And Trump has shattered the siphon— the rigged system letting the elite laptop class extract wealth while feeding the bottom 80% of us stimulus crumbs and inflation.
HUGE CONTRAST BETWEEN RICH AND POOR
…In a recent interview with Tucker Carlson, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent offered a poignant contrast:
“Last year in the summer of 2024, well-off Americans took more European vacations than they had in history.
And in the same summer of 2024, more Americans were using food banks than ever in history.”
There is no longer any doubt.
Trump is Main Street’s champion.
The Democrats are Wall Street’s champions.
The left has never looked more hypocritical or exposed. They should be terrified…
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