Many #Trump supporters take the stance that he was never ACTUALLY going to impose tariffs, that they were mere negotiating threats, and anyone who doesn't know that is an idiot.
Meanwhile #Harris was criticized for not laying out specifics of what she would do in office.
Funnily, then, that was a contest between someone who **wouldn't** say what they **would** do versus someone who **would** said what they **wouldn't** do.
What a time to be alive.
@volkris It sometimes seems to me like a pattern of
1. Trump does something stupid;
2. It backfires, but maybe extracts concessions out of other countries first;
3. Trump says this was his plan all along.
@sjb honestly I think it's a little worse than that.
So often it seems like Trump can't even come up with his own excuses, so his apologists make up excuses for him and then he says, yeah! That! Obviously that was my plan! while just parroting the excuses that his followers came up with for him.
I think it bears so much emphasis that Trump himself is such a spineless moron that he pretty much does what people tell him to do and then says what people tell him to say, so he does stupid things that people tell him to do and then he says the stupid excuses that people make up, while he himself is just a blob of jello.
@volkris That's an interesting point that I've seen in a lot of modern "politicians" - they present themselves as an empty vessel and let the public project what they want onto them, thinking this will make them popular.