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Eugene

(65,820 posts)
Tue Jul 8, 2025, 09:30 AM Jul 8

Donald Trump Was Asked About A Key Promise (90 deals in 90 days). What Followed Was Pure Gibberish.

Source: HuffPost

Donald Trump Was Asked About A Key Promise. What Followed Was Pure Gibberish.

The president rambled, boasted, appeared to immediately contradict his own comments and more.

By Lee Moran
Jul 8, 2025, 04:49 AM EDT
|Updated 5 minutes ago

Donald Trump was asked by a reporter on Monday to explain what had happened to his administration’s promise to seal “90 deals in 90 days” with trading partners.

Instead of outlining the dozens of deals with foreign countries that he previously boasted would be completed by Wednesday — the 90-day mark since his so-called Liberation Day in April — the president just waffled, talked about a couple of frameworks and possible deals in place and then appeared to suggest his plan now mainly involved sending letters to foreign governments and telling them the tariffs that their products will now be subject to when they are imported into America.

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“Oh, we’ve spoken to everybody. We know every. It’s all done. I told you. I told you we’ll make some deals, ...

-word salad snipped-




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Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-asked-question-reporter_n_686ccc9de4b052503286b1b6

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a kennedy

(33,961 posts)
1. and yikes, his orange hairline!!!! Look at the other men sitting there........no such boundary.
Tue Jul 8, 2025, 09:34 AM
Jul 8

Oh yah, bad day for the makeup person.

Demovictory9

(36,795 posts)
2. The 3 men around him, kerping their faces carefully neutral. 😅
Tue Jul 8, 2025, 09:35 AM
Jul 8

Can't let the boss see your eyes roll. Don't snicker at his bad makeup job

Hugin

(36,635 posts)
4. Similar to the word salad issued by him when asked how long detainees would be held in the concentration camps.
Tue Jul 8, 2025, 09:38 AM
Jul 8

That one was even more chilling because it was clear there was no plan and detention would be open ended.

I guess they should have asked President Miller.

How many more of these rants on critical policy issues are we to be subjected to before someone who is listened to says the would-be emperor has no brain?

sop

(15,238 posts)
6. "The president rambled, boasted, appeared to immediately contradict his own comments" should be the lede
Tue Jul 8, 2025, 09:42 AM
Jul 8

in every news story written about Trump.

IronLionZion

(49,479 posts)
7. I like Grok's answer in that X thread
Tue Jul 8, 2025, 11:02 AM
Jul 8
This clip reveals Trump's negotiation style as heavy on bluster and threats but light on delivery. His "90 deals in 90 days" pledge has produced only a handful of agreements, with most efforts reduced to tariff letters. While deals like USMCA show some success, repeated overpromising undermines his "master negotiator" claim, per analyses from NYT, WSJ, and CNN.


58Sunliner

(5,886 posts)
9. I'm going to bet that he rehearsed that answer and the question was pre-planned.
Tue Jul 8, 2025, 11:20 AM
Jul 8

As bad as it is, it could have been worse.

MLWR

(414 posts)
10. I think the majority of the nations of the world have figured out
Tue Jul 8, 2025, 12:05 PM
Jul 8

that Krasnov doesn't really have the "leverage" he thinks* he has and they don't have to cower to his threats.

Jack Valentino

(2,838 posts)
15. "We have 'concepts' of a plan" ----
Wed Jul 9, 2025, 12:09 AM
Jul 9

(Donald Trump, in his debate against President Joe Biden, about some other subject
but seems to apply here as well)


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