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Trump says that US having empty shipping ports is a good thing. "That means we're losing less money" (hexbear.net)
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Trump thinks that receiving fiat currency is more valuable than material goods.

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[โ€“] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 38 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'll paraphrase a soundbite I heard yesterday on MSNBC. Emphasis mine.

The easiest trade deal Trump can make is probably going to be with the UK... Because US-UK trade involves a lot of services... And Trump doesn't seem to care about services.

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I almost started laughing. I should have expected that President Jellybean Brain might not even understand what "services" are or why they are valuable. What are they even? They aren't on ships and they aren't in shipping containers.

[โ€“] CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn@hexbear.net 30 points 3 days ago

You can't ship a haircut across the ocean. a-little-trolling