Trump’s chip tariffs won’t hit Apple despite no plans for a US-made iPhone.

I’m sick of powerful people / companies kissing his ass, but I can’t deny that this is a smart move for getting out from under his disgusting gaze.

  • abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    963·
    1 day ago

    Hey, uh, what the fuck? Why the fuck are companies giving the President of the United States Golden statues like he’s some sort of Middle Eastern Dictator?

    • uienia@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      19 hours ago

      Because they know that that is really what he is. Everyone has him figured out now. That is why NATO and EU brownnoses him in front of journalists, or why Qatar “gifts” him an airplane.

      • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        4 hours ago

        I think Zelensky has figured it out too, and got on good terms with him.

        It’s really comical. It’s like the easiest diplomacy ever, within limits and until your enemy brownnoses too.

    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      7·
      20 hours ago

      Frankly, it’s a shrewd strategy with regards to orangeboi. He’s easily distracted by shiny things and gifts, so give him a shiny gift. He has the attention span of a toddler, and he’s fairly easy to manipulate, if you operate within that context.

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      52·
      1 day ago

      Because he’s some sort of middle eastern dictator. Figurehead of a religion of intolerance and hatred, concerned almost entirely with wealth derived from fossil fuels, utterly irredeemable personality.

    • Jrockwar@feddit.ukEnglish
      65·
      1 day ago

      Because he might not be “Middle Eastern” or “Dictator” but he behaves exactly like “some sort of Middle Eastern Dictator”.

    • thermal_shock@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      1 day ago

      To ask for “favors” later. Clearly money sways him, he’s imposing tariffs on Brazil because “they’ve never been good to us”, meaning “they don’t give USA enough money”. It’s all about money and how he can get it into him and his pedo friends pockets.

      Look at the plane he got, supposedly he’s taking it with him after office? I wish he’d just spontaneously explode during a meeting with his pedo buddies, taking them out too. Or on the plane and take them all out over the Pacific.

      • grrgyle@slrpnk.netEnglish
        4·
        23 hours ago

        I can blame them. It sets a very dangerous precedent and tacitly legitimises the maga party’s bad behaviour.

    • ѕєχυαℓ ρσℓутσρє@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      58·
      1 day ago

      Because he’s pretty much that. Idk about the middle eastern part. (Why did you even include that phrase, are you racist? There are dictators in Europe, South America, North America, all parts of Asia, idk how Australia is nowadays.)
      But he’s definitely a dictator.