To start with, China has announced they’re not buying any more U.S. beef, and have struck a deal with Australia.

Then China has rejected U.S. oil, and has announced they’re buying from Canada instead.

A jaw-dropping new analysis from Goldman Sachs reveals that Donald Trump's disastrous policies could cost the United States a staggering $90 billion in lost tourism and export revenue.

And it gets worse...

Tourism has been cratering as Trump shreds America's global reputation and his border agents continue to detain, terrorize, and deport innocent people. Reports of Europeans being improperly held for weeks have terrified tourists.

Last month, tourism plummeted 10% from the prior year with a 14% dip from the United Kingdom, 27% from Ireland, 28% from Germany, and 34% from Denmark.

Canadian flight reservations for the summer season have dropped by an astonishing 70% — directly impacting American businesses and vendors that rely on tourism. Some hotels are reporting an overall 25% drop in bookings from Europeans.

In addition to fears about traveling to the increasingly authoritarian United States, many foreigners are choosing to boycott and spend their money elsewhere. Trump's tariffs and hateful rhetoric have destroyed our national image.

According to Goldman Sachs, some $20 billion in retail spending from international visitors could evaporate into thin air. Coupled with the tariffs and the skyrocketing cost of goods, this all amounts to mass economic suffering for the American people.

In the worst case scenario Goldman Sachs estimates a massive 0.3% hit to the GDP, roughly $90 billion.

Trump's so-called Golden Age is turning out to be a new Dark Age.

So long as Trump is trash talking queers, transgenders and foreigners the MAGAts are going to believe him that all is just fine, facts notwithstanding, and his plan is working just as he anticipated. No worries when your supporters are mostly dumb as stumps.

Just wait! Foreign governments are lining up to kiss Trump's ass on these international trade issues.

“The Art of the Deal” my ass.

He’ll have to write another book, and title it “The Art of the Colossal Fuckup” or maybe “How Rome Turned Into Italy, The American Version”

Nobody’s ever seen anything like it!

Hey now- he did say that America would see new levels of respect from the rest of the world.

Well, orange jesus did promise to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours….OOPS.

My pension fund can’t take much more of this winning.

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Originally posted by LongDistanceOperator:
Hey now- he did say that America would see new levels of respect from the rest of the world.

As we see by parade floats everywhere around the world of trump getting humped by a Russian bear

the winning is going in other directions ...

If you asked Kellyanne Conway, she’d call it “alternate winning”.

As a person raised on a farm and loves eating grain fed and grass eating beef from the midwest USA, I have never been able to get used to the taste of Aussie beef. I don't know what they feed them there, but it does not taste the same. Perhaps, the Chinese will find that also?

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Originally posted by buckeyeshooter:
As a person raised on a farm and loves eating grain fed and grass eating beef from the midwest USA, I have never been able to get used to the taste of Aussie beef. I don't know what they feed them there, but it does not taste the same. Perhaps, the Chinese will find that also?

i ve been raised on a farm as well but in europe and i can say that the canadian beef i ate so far is way better than any us ones to each is choice ... it they wanted to avoid buying from your country it is obvious they have to find other markets ... the south american ones are mostly for your country and canadian ones were certainky more expensive thus the australian beef consumers will adapt ...

Texas beef is the worst, it’s so damn tough you need to put a smaller sprocket on the meat grinder. You go in the restaurant, they give you a hatchet instead of a steak knife. I suspect that’s why road kill is so popular down there, if you hit one with a Kenworth it tenderizes it somewhat.

The poor bastards live a rough life, they have to graze in about third gear on account of there’s only a puny little cactus to eat every 50’ or so, unless some armadillo already beat them to it. The steaks taste like they’ve been raised on the crap from behind the tequila distillery. No wonder those Chinamen won’t eat it, they already have plenty of rats.

There’s no beef like Alberta beef.

Cows here walk around in belly deep green grass. The greenest grass. Grass so green nobody’s ever seen anything like it. We’ve had Texans show up here, take one bite of a steak, and fall to their knees begging for refugee status. Big men, grown men with tears in their eyes, saying “Please, sir! I just want to stay so I can have more of that beef!” It’s sad. Really sad.

I'll take Iowa beef anytime. And pork as well. Last year in Washington or Oregon, can't remember, there was a chef contest in pork held by their state's pork promotion panel. The winner was disqualified when it was discovered his pork was from Iowa.