In an inside account of convicted felon President Trump’s partial capitulation to China in the stupid fucking trade war that he started, the Washington Post reports that his minions were able to talk him down when truckers, longshoremen, and others whom he counts on for support – whom he also claimed would easily handle some “temporary pain” and “the price that must be paid” among other canned bullshit lines – could not in fact withstand it economically, thus neither could he politically.

“The key argument was that this was beginning to hurt Trump’s supporters – Trump’s people,” one anonymous minion told the Post, adding that gave Chief of Staff Susan Wiles “a key window” to get the fat bastard to wave the white flag and largely give up on his quest to get children to do with fewer toys, onshore terrible low-paying jobs manufacturing them, collect “trillions and trillions of dollars to reduce our taxes and pay down our national debt,” get the ChiComs to buy more American products to reduce the trade deficit from which Trump claimed they stole “$1 trillion” from the US during the Biden Administration, and some shit about fentanyl. Yeah, all that’s mostly gone now that Trump reduced the tariff on imports down to 30 percent from 158 percent or whatever it was.

Trump bitched out of most of the “pain,” got pretty much nothing out of it, and for the foreseeable future, Americans will pay a regressive 30 percent tax on all Chinese-manufactured imports, and the egg-price voters have themselves to blame for that, even as all of us shoulder that cost.