National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett appeared on Fox News to discuss the first week impact from President Trump’s global trade reset and implementation of reciprocal tariffs.
Director Kevin Hassett notes that so many countries are calling and requesting to renegotiate their trade agreements, the National Economic Council is having difficulty keeping up with appointment scheduling and establishing a prioritization list for President Trump to review.
That said, Hassett notes that Japan and South Korea will likely be the first two nations for U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and President Trump to engage with. Apparently, Xi Jinping (China) and Ursula von der Leyen (EU) will ride their bicycles in slow circles at the bottom of the White House driveway while angrily staring at the windows.
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It looks like Kevin “Quokka” Hassett is having fun.
love Kevin
He looks like a government bureaucrat out of Central Casting- in a cute way!
He reminds me of Sid from Ice Age, (in a good way).
Ad rem, I reported this character to you when I recognized his single word moderation post made at 1009 on the Japan post on Tuesday, he slipped in with the single word, “great,” so I’m not sure how this character, now dubbed Spam, got through moderation when we were just told that comment wouldn’t have met standards and was obviously recognized as part of a pattern of trickery that none would fall for again.
I have not heard back regarding my message on this topic yesterday, nor on the several messages sent weeks ago on this very topic, there appears to be a blockage in the system somewhere.
I hope all this can be resolved and the miscreants addressed effectively, us noticers are trying to help.
Blessings,
Maquis
Beautiful!
Thank you, Sundance!
I went away from the computer for a little while and now I have all these great articles to print out for my Mom (the “Wall Street Journal” is especially skinny on Tuesdays so she will enjoy having these to read).
lol I hope your Mom enjoys that last paragraph about Xi and the Comrade EU gal. 😏😂
Sundance has found the time to hone his writing skills, hasn’t he?
Yes!
This is just too good to be true, but wonderful nonetheless.
The left gnashes their collective teeth, while Trump’s two surrogate sons Elon and Peter go at it.
What glorious fun, is it any wonder Kevin is smiling.
I recall a few years ago when President Trump said NATO nations weren’t paying the USA what they owed under the treaty agreement. The Euros said that nobody in the US government had EVER ASKED THEM to do so! Same thing with the tariffs.
And yet they never thought to do the right thing and actually pay their fair share.
That just shows their rotten-to-the-core character. The deal was that they pay but because no one in the USA actually fought back against their financial cheating they continued to be thieves.
So China and the EU never watched some episodes of “Law & Order”?
“First to deal gets the best deal.”
just make sure we give them the deals and shift resources to them so that China and the EU can suck it.
Yes please! 🙏🏻‼️
One of Sundance’s best metaphors to contra-Alinsky the globullists!
Always makes me laugh; I can just see it.
Some…apparently…taken while out on the golf course that the MSM hyperventilator liars tried to make it look like he was on a Biden-level beach vacation. Also heard he had to put some leaders on a short hold to finish the existing call.
The man is doing what he said, in spades. Give it time to come to fruition, and the micro-moment by micro-moment hair on fire baloney will look even more asinine than it does now. Incidentally, how many leaders could be so convicted in their plan they could head out for 18 holes…which takes concentration…as the market [temporarily] tanks in response…knowing full well it will recover? Few…only one that I know of.
I can imagine that while he is on the phone with a more stubborn leader and he says, “Hang on, I have to put you on hold. Leader of Country Y is beeping in.”
I remember when the OLD Media tried to put Biden in a golf cart and pretend he could remember how to play GOLF. Lol
Angela Merkel is standing, leaning across a table, staring down at Donald Trump, who is seated with arms crossed. Around them are world leaders and advisors—Shinzo Abe, John Bolton, and others—mostly standing, watching tensely. The vibe is confrontational, like a diplomatic stare-down.
I dont know how to post the image here. But you all know which one I am thinking about.
https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=image%20of%20worldd%20leders%20surrounding%20trump&FORM=IQFRBA&id=4A080B527430FFE095C621A86405AF70DF91DDD6
First you steal it, then upload from your computer to postimages.org, very easy to do, then post the direct link here:
Iconic photo – only place I’ve ever seen it is here.
If would be perfect if Bolton’s face was replaced with that of a sad clown.
blob:https://theconservativetreehouse.com/0213ad05-a7af-4abc-a116-159c92a2c5cf
This is more accurate 😳
The “vibe” is – they’re all lining up to beg the KING!
Simple math at work:
The US Consumer drives 40-45% of the Global GDP Producing Industry.
The EU and China Inc. drive 30-40%.
Being generous, the rest of the Global Consumers drive about 30%.
The US 40% + The Rest of the Globes 30% = 70% of the Globes Consumers are potentially US Customers.
That leaves the EU trying to make a deal with China Inc. that has a CONTROLLED and RESTRICTED Internal Consumer Environment and a voracious EXPORT Oriented State owned Business called China Inc. that has to sell OFF-SHORE to make money.
Don’t the millions of Government Employees count twice when determining GDP ? At least in the US?
Not anymore! DOGE.
Yes, they can never make the #’s add up, can they?
As this was all foreseeable, WHY did they even try with the saber rattleing, BEFORE caving?
It just makes them appear as foolush as they are.
soundtrack while you read the post.😂
Good choice!
Or, as Billy Crystal ad-libbed a line of this song while leaving it on a phone message machine in When Harry Met Sally:
“Phone moi!”
Perhaps he was foreshadowing Macron.
That’s is sooo funny !!!
My favorite part. 😊
Priceless!!
Someone with the ability needs to do a meme of that.
AB-solutely. C’mon you artists.
And have them cycling in the rain getting drenched,
It is a contemplative moment when we stop to think the good Lord above knew the time would come for this great man.
Thank you, Father…
🙏🏻 🙏🏻 🙏🏻
In 1912, America exports exceeded imports by 10%, (2.738 billion exports vs 2.481 billion imports), there was no income tax and there was no Federal Reserve!
Let that remind us all why Trump is doing what he’s doing!
Excellent point! And what happened in 1913 that made exports less important?
What happened in 1913 was that progressive Democrat and former Princeton University Woodrow Wilson was sworn in as president!
He signed the Revenue act of 1913 which lowered our tariffs and began taxing American citizens instead…and that same year he signed the Federal Reserve Act which established the Federal Reserve System…ALL of this he did in his first year as president!
Fabulous MAGA, Baby!
👊👊🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️❤️🇺🇸🇺🇸
in the very near future, the presstitute media, America haters and KStreet will find it impossible to spin a fatalist narrative around The President’s reciprocal tariffs. The fear porn is only increasing his approval ratings, now >53%.
Pollster says “he’s not a lame duck, he’s a soaring eagle”.
Ain’t I been saying it?
Many have been depending on ‘conventional wisdom’ based on past performance, that his approval would go down, hence his party would lose seats in the midterms.
However, as yet there is no sign his post-election popularity surge is waining, just the opposite.
Even the Congressional Republicants may have difficulty blowing the lead he is going to hand to them, in the midterms.
Nix the Fix
**2026**
MAXIMIZE THE MANDATE
yup, I can’t figure out what they’re complaining abt, I’m making $$$ on my stocks… reciprocal tariffs r a thing of beauty
Carry on and long live the Republic!
“With so much winning…it’s hard to decide which one to celebrate. How about you? Do you want one?”
In my best Mike Ehrmantraut…
Best line of the day anywhere. SD is very good at putting together those types of words.
TRUMP SLAPS 104% TARIFF ON CHINA
“…Oh, love your nails You must be a Libra Your place or mine? Ha ha yes”
FZ!
Love it!
So, knowing this, I expect to see the globalists on X posting once again, “Is this what you voted for?” posts….where 90+% of the respondents say yes.
X has transitioned into a Right Wing echo chamber with mostly bots.
So – 90%+ totally tracks.
You sound disappointed that our country won’t be collapsing.
It’s like you have reverse Schadenfreude.
It must suck being miserable because of the happiness of everyone else.
But I’ve been busy in the real world, talking with real people, in person even! Those people- many of whom hate Trump with a passion- recognize that something needs to be done to balance the tariff imbalance (once it’s explained to them.). No echo chamber, but rather very liberal people in very liberal settings seeing things in a light not presented by the MSM and the liberal echo chamber.
Is that just your uneducated opinion or do you have any hard data you could share that supports your claim regarding X?
Part of the problem may be that China and the EU are used to Vito Corleone negotiations. They think they can issue an order “you can’t refuse.”
They have no practical negotiating skills, especially when they’re the ones at a disadvantage.
If only there was a book they could read…on the art of dealing…
“See… the problem here is that… my little brother, this morning, got his arm caught in the microwave, and uh… my grandmother dropped acid and she freaked out, and hijacked a school bus full of… penguins, so it’s kind of a family crisis… so come back later?”
😁 😁 😁 😁 😁 😁 😁
A classic movie!
A riot of a movie!
So you mean the sky is not falling? Who knew…
Greg Foreman’s is one of the great Rumble channels. This one includes clips of main street America talking about tariffs.
https://rumble.com/v6rsp9h-businessmen-school-liberal-media-anchors-as-they-rage-against-trump-refusin.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp
Just wait.
I don’t think people have really internalised yet what a 100% tariff on China means.
This is madness, and when the first macro data rolls in with a 1–2 month lag, people are going to gasp.
The US is literally punching itself in the face right now.
“Thank you sir,may I have another”
We heard the exact same sky-is-falling warnings when Trump raised tariffs on China during his first term. The predicted “dire consequences” never materialized, and Sundance has explained several times why they didn’t materialize.
Don’t think they watched the video in my post. Somethings are just not worth a response.
👍👍
The US is “punching itself in the face” by installing a tariff against China? You have any problems with China having a myriad of tariffs in place for decades against the US and none by us against them?
I’ll guess, “No” since you also don’t know what “literally” means.
I have a question.
While I know the EU cant win this because its got massive entitlement and debt to deal with. Its showed cracks even in Germany. And I know Xi can devalue the currency and maniplulate as he pleases with no political consequences.
But realistically…how much can China take economically before it has to acquiesce? Forget Europe, its financial institutions are its only life line…it will bend or break. But China concerns me. It has plans and money factors into those plans and it doesnt like disrupting those plans.
So PDJT surely has a Golden Bridge in mind, a route to survival, only to be revealed when appropriate.
A smaller stabler saner and most especially, freer, China, that is secure and need not serve expansionist goals.
China, or any nation can only get so far, with currency devaluation, and at 104%, they are way past that point.
I worry about China overturning the table and going to general war before we unentangle our supply chains from them.
It’s going to be more and more difficult for the media to hide all of the great moves PTrump and his administration are making! I’m so happy he’s still able to crush the resistance. God bless him.
Place them in Que and let them pay and sweat it out because all the sudden wanting to make a deal is not enough.
And every day they stand, sweating in the que, is Billions of $’s they pay, and we collect.
And, its ALL trade barriers, not just tariffs, and each deal will be TAYLORED to the Country.
So, for China how about child and slave labor?
As for the EU, “If you continue to refuse to allow your people to speak, we can not help you!”
Actually, no point in negotiating with EU, only with individual countries, and then only after the N/P parties are elected…
Not that we’re interfereing in their internal politics, trying to instigate a color revolution or anything…
They have minimum wage in majority
of their provinces.
And their labor laws……
Mandatory retirement age for men-60
Women in management-55
All other jobs by women-50.
Pretty interesting reading about their labor
laws…including age…which is 18 to begin
working💁♀️🤷♀️
Employee contracts and benefits.
Salary may not seem a lot-but cost of living
is lower.
Labor Laws in China – China Guide | Doing Business in China
Overtime, hazardous pay, holiday pay 💁♀️🤷♀️
Seriously…check it out! In some cases they
even give housing allowance 😳
Minimum Wages in China: A Complete Guide
And you get “disappeared” if you complain about any of it.
🙄 🙄
Yes, the factory workers live in Dorms on site and get locked in at night.
Judging from all the noise can you imagine how much graft this will expose around the world.
Doge is about to reveal another blockbuster, they keep teasing…
Waiting for them to get to Medicine/Health Care
Very interesting article about what’s behind the tariffs.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/what-you-need-to-know-about-trumps-tariffs
FTA:
2. It’s not even about the tariffs.
The real issue isn’t Vietnam’s tariff rates—it’s China’s trans-shipment tactics and its central role in global supply chains.
The aim is to isolate China and rewrite the rules of global trade. If a country like Vietnam is willing to align with that goal, it doesn’t matter much whether it sets its tariffs for American products at 0%, 5%, or even 9.4% (current rate).
Yep, the US Free Trade Bloc bypassing as much as possible the CCP.
Since they are SO reliant on exports, if successful that will ruin them.
I think, not sure, Taiwan is quietly black-marketing in CCP junk
I work at an investment advisor firm. All at this firm are a bunch of lefties except me. I have to listen to them whine all day long about “tariffs” and how dare he do this to tank the market. I feel like yelling at the top of my lungs – where were you the last 4 years when dementia president Biden was tanking the economy and spending like a drunken sailor? It is insane and I have to remain silent.
just grin slyly
and think how much smarter and aware you are
‘I have to listen to them whine all day long about “tariffs” and how dare he do this to tank the market.’
”…where were you the last 4 years when dementia president Biden was tanking the economy…”
TWO VERY IMPORTANT WORDS THERE!!!
The “market” affects THEIR SALARIES!
The “economy” affects OUR SALARIES!
Wall Street vs Main Street
HOw’s their investment advice doing?
simply
because the US has the world’s largest market of goods made consumption
“ ride their bicycles in slow circles at the bottom of the White House driveway while angrily staring at the windows”. You do have a way with words, Sundance. 10/10 for that.
So, if this gets done this quickly, it will be like the border. No need for gotcha bipartisan legislation…….just do it. CONgress, especially GOPrick RINOrats, are going to squirm big time as that big eagle looks down on them with a rather pissed off glare. We to them, “you mean this was all that was needed?”
My local TV station had a news feature that may contain the coming narrative: “Think of the children!”
It interviewed the owner of a local toy store (high end, educational – no Mattel, Fisher Price, etc., at this place) on how the tariffs will affect the prices of toys that she imports.
Baby boomers could always trot out for their grandchildren what the Boomers heard from their parents, “When I was your age, I had to make my own fun.”
A couple of weeks ago, some of those Chinese toys were recalled – toxic paints used on them!
…and DO YOU REMEMBER THE SCANDAL OVER ALL THE PET DEATHS FROM TOXIC PET FOODS- even the highest costing brands?
The Chinese were feeding MELAMINE TO FARM ANIMALS TO FATTEN THEM!!
BUT, IT ALSO GOT INTO THE HUMAN FOOD CHAIN IN PLACES!
I imagine there are still quite a few people who remember that melamine was used to make a type of plastic dishware – MELMAC!
YUM YUM! GIMME SOMETHING ELSE FROM CHINA!
Melmac – the dishes so durable no kid could break them. And they did come in nice colors.
How about lead in dental crowns sent from China?
Maintain the pressure Team Trump!
Good Morning I hate America is going more insane than usual according to my coworker. He hears the opening of the program before he leaves in the morning. I believe it as an economic nuclear explosion or something like it this morning.
Georgie Porgie is going to be catatonic soon or maybe he already is?
Having to apologize to Trump on live TV may have broken him.
I’m not happy at all at this situation between Elon and Peter Navarro.
I don’t think it’s okay or a good look, this is for sure.
People can agree to disagree and move on.
“Navarro Is Truly A Moron”: Musk Slams Trump Trade Czar In Ongoing Tariff Feud
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/navarro-truly-moron-musk-slams-trump-trade-czar-ongoing-tariff-feud
Elon is looking for an out
It’s so childish one almost has to wonder if it’s meant to be a distraction?
It’s just strange.
Elon is in an awkward place right now between being a Conservative hero and needing trade with Europe and China to keep from loosing BILLIONS from Tesla where the majority of his wealth comes from. I’m sure the pressure is enormous.
I’m aware that Elon flies off the handle, he’s got Asperger’s, I’m sure it’s not easy to be a brainiac and all, I get it.
BUT I like Peter Navarro, he’s been so loyal to Donald Trump and he went to jail for cripes sake.. give the man some respect.
It pained me to see Elon calling him a moron.. it was so not nice and a bad look for Elon as well to lower himself throwing a fit like this.
I’m not sure if this is some staged Kabuki Theater bullshit show for the CNN crowd or what, but I think being united and all on the same page is important for the administration.
Especially right now when all eyes happen to be on America over this tariff hoopla.
Navarro–like you, I really like the guy–can be quite intemperate with his language.
Its silly and does not speak well for Elon. If he has a problem with tariffs why take it out on Navarro? He has President Trump’s ear. Why not go directly to the horse?
Majority of wealth is X
The majority of Musk’s wealth is no longer in Tesla, but rather in SpaceX.
https://cointelegraph.com/learn/articles/elon-musks-net-worth-breakdown
EU frets over flood of Chinese imports as Trump stokes tariff warAdvocates for easier trade with Beijing, including Spain, face off against Poland and others backing protections against Chinese imports
The direct impact of Trump’s tariffs on EU shipments to the US will affect 70 per cent of its exports, worth some €370 billion (US$405 billion), when all of them are deployed.
The officials are also bracing for the possibility of an indirect consequence of Trump’s actions: Chinese goods that would have been bound for the US getting diverted to Europe at discounted prices, putting more pressure on local firms that are already under strain.
In particular, a debate is raging about whether to use the anti-coercion instrument, known informally as the EU’s “trade bazooka”, which would allow it to fine or even block US tech firms from the Single Market in response to the scything duties. The instrument was adopted in 2022, and has never been deployed.
The bloc’s economic heavyweights, Germany, France and Spain, came out in favour on Monday of using the ACI. The instrument was conceived of a way of responding to Trump’s tariffs during his first term in office, and was adopted following China’s coercion of Lithuania over a diplomatic row regarding Taiwan.
“We have to take a close look at the anti-coercion instrument, which are measures that go far beyond tariff policy,” said German Vice-Chancellor Robert Habeck, who described the US’ calculations on its so-called “reciprocal tariffs” announced last week as “nonsense”.
“Stock markets are already collapsing and the damage could become even greater. It is therefore important … to act clearly and decisively and prudently, which means realising that we are in a strong position. America is in a position of weakness,” Habeck told journalists as European indices opened in free fall.
Other members, including Italy, Ireland and Lithuania urged caution on using the ACI, as this would likely trigger countermeasures from Washington.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3305575/eu-frets-over-flood-chinese-imports-trump-stokes-tariff-war
It would be amusing to watch the EU public lynch their “leaders” if all US based tech firms collectively pulled their product from the EU market. No twattle, no instagram, no facebook, and the list continues down the line of all the tech companies the EU “leaders” would like to harm. Pull them all, and all at once.
Cheap Chinese goods dumped in the EU. They both lose.
What’s not to like?
I hope they put playing cards with clothespins in the spokes of their bicycle wheels so President Trump can hear them outside. 🤣
I love that he is delighting in this, and making the most of it. Like how he flipped the script and said he’d have to see the base numbers on the probably already low ‘historic’ 15-20% of 401K hardship withdrawals instead of just answering the question and letting her get away with a sound clip that would let her play both sides.
“I wasn’t dancing.”
Mic drop…
Lolol
In God We Trust
{All others pay cash}
Trust God
Fear not
I wonder if the EU and Comrade Ursula are positioning themselves to eventually become East America.
Stranger things have happened.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/report-tech-giant-apple-flies-five-planeloads-iphones/
-“To mitigate the impact, the company rapidly moved inventory from manufacturing centres in India and China to the US, even though this period is typically a slow shipping season.”
Shouldn’t countries now be ashamed and humble as they approach the U.S., after intentionally ripping us off for decades?
Instead, they’re calling to say, “Hey Trump old buddy, let’s make a deal!”.
That’s not NORMAL. It’s akin to how ABC/CBS/NBC/CNN, etc… have NO APOLOGIES, after lying to us about everything, from Trump-Russia, to Biden is sharp as a tack, to Kamala is leading Trump by double digits.
The USA never asked. We bad – our fault.
The visual of those two peddling their bicycles in circles at the foot of the driveway is too much. 😂