A) it’s Trump, and that’s not even the most outrageous thing he’s said this week
B) frankly, what he’s describing is more or less SOP for the US (not that I think that’s a good thing). We’ve done it countless times for countless petty economic reasons. He’s not talking about doing something unprecedented, so much as just saying the quiet part out loud.
Again, I don’t think either of those things are OK, but you can only summon so much outrage for Trump at a time, and sadly people are just used to the economic imperialism of the US to the point where most people barely see it as a bad thing
There’s no outrage because
A) it’s Trump, and that’s not even the most outrageous thing he’s said this week
B) frankly, what he’s describing is more or less SOP for the US (not that I think that’s a good thing). We’ve done it countless times for countless petty economic reasons. He’s not talking about doing something unprecedented, so much as just saying the quiet part out loud.
Again, I don’t think either of those things are OK, but you can only summon so much outrage for Trump at a time, and sadly people are just used to the economic imperialism of the US to the point where most people barely see it as a bad thing