President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he has no problem with the sharp decline in the dollar that’s been triggered by convulsions in global bond markets and growing skepticism about the U.S.’s reliability as a trading partner.
“I think it’s great,” Trump told reporters in Iowa when asked about the currency’s decline. “Look at the business we’re doing. The dollar’s doing great.”
Trump has long maintained that a weaker currency helps industries that he’s seeking to boost — particularly manufacturers, but also oil and gas. And U.S. corporations that export goods and services abroad typically report stronger earnings when they can convert foreign payments into a weaker greenback.
He campaigned on sinking the value of the dollar.
That’s true. He wanted to pay Americans less so we could compete with low-wage manufacturing countries like China and slash environmental regs so we could pillage the landscape for resources. Nevermind how much it would wildly increase disparity and fuck the average person.
Yet, as usual, his supporters couldn’t think past tossing brown people in cages and pissing off the libs, so here we are.