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Yesterday, Politico ran a story headlined, ��Shock. Frustration. Anger.� Trump�s tariff letters roil Asian allies.� On Monday, Trump posted a slew
of tariff letters addressed to other countries on his Truth Social
account, shattering more �standards and norms� by ignoring normal
diplomatic channels. By the response, you�d think he joked about pushing
the nuclear button or something.

Trump unleashed letters to 14 foreign governments �10 from Asia�
threatening new tariffs starting August 1st, unless the countries make
better efforts to broker deals. During yesterday�s Cabinet meeting, the President quipped the United States wants good relationships with
countries, �but in every case, they treated us far worse than I�m treating them.�

They didn�t like it. �We have no idea what the hell he�s sending, who he�s sending it to, or how he�s sending it,� complained an unnamed official
from one of the governments targeted in the letters.

I guess they didn�t like finding out on Truth Social. Turns out, �breaking news� from Trump�s feed isn�t how they imagined their next round of trade negotiation would begin.

If you think about it, Trump first redefined how government communicates
with the public. Now nearly every world leader has an active social media account. That�s no minor adjustment for technology; it cuts corporate
media right out of the middle. Government officials can communicate
directly with citizens all day, every day, without media filters.

Corporate media has been reduced. Reduced from gatekeeper to stenographer. Trump has inverted the whole dynamic. Instead of public officials begging
(or coercing) media to carry their messages, media has been forced to
report what Trump said on his own social media platform, each time trying
to stuff some Trumpian genie or other back into its gilded information
bottle.

Now, Trump is rewriting the script for how governments talk to each other. Forget embassies�foreign ministries now need entire departments just to
monitor Trump�s Truth Social feed, lest they miss the next tariff
ultimatum, war warning, or offhand offer to annex Greenland.

Trump�s not just bypassing the media. He�s making other nations reactive.
He�s turned international diplomacy into a game of high-stakes whack-a-
mole� and he�s holding the mallet.


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November 5, 2024 - Congratulations President Donald Trump. We look
forward to America being great again.

We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that
stupid people won't be offended.

Every day is an IQ test. Some pass, some, not so much.

Thank you for cleaning up the disasters of the 2008-2017, 2020-2024 Obama
/ Biden / Harris fiascos, President Trump.

Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.

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