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Politics : A Real American President: Donald Trump
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To: didjuneau who wrote (453647)10/24/2025 8:47:56 PM
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It's actually pretty mind boggling that the libs and fakenews pretend to be totally clueless about what Ronald Reagan was talking about in his 5 minute speech.

Reagan just placed tariffs on Japan and was discussing why he did it even though he usually was against tariffs. The ignorant libs only read the 2nd half that he hated using tariffs. HIS SPEECH WAS DEFENDING USING THEM. The Canadians took his statement and rearranged parts to convey a different meaning.

NO ONE CAN BE THIS STUPID and NOT SEE IT? Here is the crucial part about what Reagan said that the clueless Trump haters just won't admit:

<snip to paragraph 2>
As perhaps you’ve heard, last week I placed new duties on some Japanese products in response to Japan’s inability to enforce their trade agreement with us on electronic devices called semiconductors. Now, imposing such tariffs or trade barriers and restrictions of any kind are steps that I am loath to take. And in a moment I’ll mention the sound economic reasons for this: that over the long run such trade barriers hurt every American worker and consumer. But the Japanese semiconductors were a special case. We had clear evidence that Japanese companies were engaging in unfair trade practices that violated an agreement between Japan and the United States. We expect our trading partners to live up to their agreements. As I’ve often said: Our commitment to free trade is also a commitment to fair trade.

But you know, in imposing these tariffs we were just trying to deal with a particular problem, not begin a trade war. So, next week I’ll be giving Prime Minister Nakasone this same message: We want to continue to work co-operatively on trade problems and want very much to lift these trade restrictions as soon as evidence permits. We want to do this, because we feel both Japan and the United States have an obligation to promote the prosperity and economic development that only free trade can bring.

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all at link below

What did Reagan actually say about tariffs? Read the transcript of his 1987 address
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