Murdoch Paper Torches Trump For Surrendering To China

Tuesday, May 13, 2025

The White House touted the rollback of tariffs on China as a "historic trade win" for the U.S., but The Wall Street Journal thinks it looked more like a surrender. In a piece titled "The Great Trump Tariff Rollback," The Journals editorial board labeled President Donald Trumps latest move less a victory than a "major retreat." Rarely has an economic policy been repudiated as soundly, and as quickly, as President Trump's Liberation Day tariffs"and by Mr. Trump's own hand," the board wrote in the scathing Monday piece. "The China deal is more surrender than Trump victory," it added. "Apart from the tariff rollback, neither side announced any broader concessions on the substantive trade issues that weigh on the U.S.-China relationship."

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"One tragedy of Mr. Trump's shoot-America-in-the-foot-first approach is that he's hurt his chances of rallying a united front of countries against Beijing's mercantilism," it wrote. "By targeting allies with tariffs, Mr. Trump has eroded trust in America's economic and political reliability."

The Journal said the silver lining to the tariff chaos was that markets forced Trump to back down from his "fever dream" that the punitive levies would usher in a new golden age.

"The age didn't last two months, and it was more leaden than golden," the paper said.

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There was no other end to this than capitulation. This dumb sack of ---- surrendered last time as well.

The entire world is aligning up against Donny Doll Hands. Thanks to decades of the GCCCP giving tax breaks to companies moving their businesses out of the US we are dependent on importing almost all of consumer goods. He severely overplayed his hand and was counting on a quick surrender by the rest of the world to his bullying. Now he got punched in the nose.

In 90 days he will "announce" a big beautiful deal with China, do a victory lap and when the details are released and analyzed he will have made a worse deal than he did last time.

#1 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-05-13 07:51 AM | Reply

Even the WSJ knows the bankruptcy-prone diaper sniper folded.

#2 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-05-13 10:39 AM | Reply

of course....a story from Reinsaboober.

you out of touch stooges need to finally understand that when you post a story

or comment with the name Murdoch....it's no longer associated with fox needs.

big BIG MONEY has removed his opinions etc....from a conservative voice

#3 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-05-13 03:20 PM | Reply

Are you saying SOROS has a muzzle on MURDOCH???

#4 | Posted by schifferbrains at 2025-05-13 03:28 PM | Reply