The world is beginning to tire of Trump's whiplash leadership

[Dulcinea]

(CNN) Government by chaos is back.

One day, President Donald Trump imposed a punishing tariff regime against Canada and Mexico. The next, he froze auto duties for a month after suddenly realizing that – as everyone had predicted – they could wreck a quintessential American industry.

Last week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky came to the Oval Office to sign a rare-earth minerals deal that Trump billed as a triumph for the US. But Zelensky was provoked by Vice President JD Vance and kicked out of the White House. European leaders have spent days trying to fix the debacle.

Elon Musk, meanwhile, is taking his chainsaw to the bureaucracy, indiscriminately firing workers and feeding agencies into the wood chipper – pitching citizens and industries who rely on government payments into uncertainty just as the economy softens and is more vulnerable to such shocks.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/06/politics/trump-canada-mexico-tariffs-whiplash-analysis/index.html

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1. Putin is quite pleased, though.

[C_U_L8R]

2. It's a tired act that benefits no one.

Wish they'd remembered that before they went and voted for the clown again.

[Aristus]

3. What else are clowns going to vote for if not one of their own?

I keep getting the soft handjob of both-siderisms from other DU-ers, who insist MAGAts are all really well-educated, pillars of their communities, clear-thinkers, and patriots who want what's best for the country.

Nope. They're all clowns. Down to the very last one.