The White House confirmed it sent letters to multiple countries, reminding them to submit their "best offers" on trade negotiations ahead of Trump's deadline.

The Trump administration confirmed Tuesday that it has sent formal letters to multiple countries, reminding them to submit their “best offers” on trade negotiations ahead of a fast-approaching deadline.

“The president expects good deals, and we are on track for that,” Leavitt said, insisting that U.S. officials are in active talks with many key trading partners around the world.

But the need for a “friendly reminder” has fueled skepticism regarding the administration’s claims that the aggressive tariffs have motivated trading partners to negotiate deals with the US. Social media users accused the administration of approaching desperation as the deadline approaches.

  • partial_accumen
    14•3 days ago

    They can’t call trump out specifically, but they can really imply it cleverly to give themselves plausible deniability:

    Taco Bell presents the Taco47:

    • Doritos Loco Taco shell with artificial bright orange nacho cheese dust flavoring
    • Grilled chicken that has a tendency to fall out. Resulting in a “chicken out” situation, as always.
    • Too much sour creme ruining the meal
    • Served with Diet Coke only, but with way too much ICE

    Cost is 75 cents each, which you’d expect to be a bargain, but we’ve decided you’ve been taking advantage of us for years so there is a 150% tariff we’ve placed on it resulting in a $1.87 price before other taxes.

    This is the end of my joke, but I have to share this part. I went looking for a picture to include in this post and found one on NPRs website from 2012 when the Doritos Loco taco first came out (Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me show). They were commenting on it and I’m laughing hard at some of these comments:

    • Eva: Everything about this is disgusting, and I love it.
    • Peter: I don’t like it. I open my mouth and take a breath before biting it, and get a lungful of powder. It’s part taco, part asthma inhaler.
    • Eva: Dorito’s orange powder: The fat man’s cocaine.
    • Peter: Next time somebody thinks they’ve hit bottom, they should ask themselves, “Sure, I’ve lost my job and my spouse, but am I eating a Dorito Supreme? No? Then party on.”
    • Eva: Just like with regular Doritos, you can’t eat just one. Which must be why I just absent-mindedly ate 23 tacos.
    • Mike: This is the perfect combination of two things that are terrible for you. As if ammonia and hydrochloric acid, mixed together, tasted like chocolate.
    • (Eva is offered another.) Eva: No thanks. I ate the first one, but now I feel really bad about it.
    • Mike: Exactly. I’m trying to find an analogy, for something you do, but don’t enjoy. It’s like shooting Lenny at the end of “Of Mice and Men.”
    • Peter: Think of the tacos, Lenny! Think of the Tacos!
    • [The verdict: If you like Doritos, in all their orangey glory, you will like these, but just a little while later you will regret everything you’ve done to lead you to that moment.]

    source

    • @Case@lemmynsfw.com
      4•3 days ago

      Doesn’t work. Sorry.

      Trump is team (diet) Coke, and Taco Bell is owned by Yum Brands, which is owned by Pepsi.

      Now if it came with its “own” Diet Trump Cola, maybe. The cup could have a depiction of Don Taco thin/muscular, you know, how he sees himself in a mirror

      • partial_accumen
        3•3 days ago

        I knew about the Pepsi relationship, but the forced Diet Coke just adds to the absurdity and just had to be included in the joke.