Dignified and diplomatic as usual. The Guardian

[Ping Tung]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/09/trump-address-republicans-china-tariffs

Trump brags world leaders are ‘kissing my ass’ as tariff chaos rocks markets

Donald Trump has insisted “I know what the hell I’m doing” by imposing sweeping tariffs and bragged that world leaders are “kissing my ass” as they try to negotiate trade deals.

The US president was speaking to political donors at the National Republican Congressional Committee’s annual fundraising dinner in Washington on Tuesday night.

His rambling 90-minute address came just hours before his latest tariffs – including a 104% levy on China – went into effect. But he gave no hint of backing down from a policy that has sent markets into meltdown and triggered a global trade war.
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“I know what the hell I’m doing,” the president said. “I know what I’m doing. And you know what I’m doing too. That’s why you vote for me.”

[SheltieLover]

1. The bigger they are, the harder they fall...

[VMA131Marine]

2. You know Trump's lying ...

when his mouth is moving.

But you especially know when he says stuff like this.

Mocking the pleas of foreign leaders, he parodied: “Please, please, sir, make a deal. I’ll do anything. I’ll do anything, sir!”

This kind of thing only happens in Trump’s dreams, but I’m not sure he can tell the difference between dreams and reality.