Man I hope advertising gets scaled back. The marketing campaign spend some of these companies have is astronomical for little return. Just makes it seem like America can only actually produce ads.

Except it's Trump. He will never step down. He can't admit he's wrong on anything otherwise it'll break his macho man persona of never being wrong and it's not his fault.

Yes, because their current tariff plans of on and off has been working great to give businesses confidence to bring jobs back and not get rug pulled by the administration.

You are in luck! Kevin O'Leary is in his ear about going to 400%...

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-how-high-mr-wonderful-wants-u-s-tariffs-on-china-to-be-af9cf27b

Update he indeed doesn't know

Yeah but the difference is Trump has the magnetism and Vance doesn't? Usually when a cult leader dies the whole cult kinda fizzles out.

It's all ragebaiting and clicks now.

Looking like complete escalation since china won't bend the knee to him

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-07/trump-threatens-additional-50-china-tariff-over-retaliation

Nah trump will claim everyone was there for him and there wasn't a protest.

The base is fully bought in on the crazy idea Trump tanks the market so he can refi the debt and save billions in interest and also the fed will be forced to drop interest rates. It's crazy though bc the impact of that will be catastrophic. The reason the US is so strong economically is because the dollar is the reserve currency of the world. You lose that power then it's harder to bounce back if at all.

I've seen a new talking point popping up that he's crashing the market on purpose to refi US debt and force the fed to drop interest rates...

Honestly they probably plugged it into Grok and asked it to spit out the list of countries to tariff.

It's probably dumber than you think why they weren't on there. The formula they used to come up with the countries tarrifs rate is based simply on trade deficit calculations. So if you aren't exporting/importing from those countries they wouldn't be included. It doesn't even matter if there was a trade surplus.

For example, take the figures for China:

• Goods trade deficit: $291.9bn
• Total goods imports: $438.9bn
• 291.9/438.9 = 0.67, or 67%
• And halved = 34%

Sources:

https://www.ft.com/content/e025d7e6-512d-4e82-9c25-7900b94ac153

https://news.sky.com/story/do-trumps-tariff-numbers-add-up-after-liberation-day-announcement-13340903

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/03/trumps-idiotic-and-flawed-tariff-calculations-stun-economists

There have been multiple companies who have gone through public image issues that have survived, but never regained their original status in the market.

The thing that it has been with Tesla is the company value never made sense and it was driven by hype for Elon and his "genius vision". With that facade going away the stock should continue to adjust to closer to other comparable car companies. Even recently they had a trailing P/E ratio of 121. That's crazy with only so few things in their product pipeline that we know about.

So the question now is how does the new public perception impact any new products they launch in the near term and how do they recover the confidence of the consumers? Not saying that it can't be done.

Tesla has been losing ground for a while. They were one of the first mass produced EVs with charging infrastructure, but now what makes them special? They have positioned themselves as a software/ai company but it was just a way to boost stock price. They don't have full self driving (fsd) that's been promised as next year for the past 10 years. On top of it they only rely on cameras for fsd and no lidar systems so I don't think they'll ever get full clearance outside the US.

So even if they ditch Elon I'm not sure if the sentiment can be brought back. Sure they may not go bankrupt but the stock should fall in line with other auto manufacturing companies.

They had 6 rate increases last year. They had reported 2.1b in profits only to want to raise again to compensate investors because they are 1% from other similar companies dividends....I'm sick of this.

Has his first term

It was ironic after they called zelensky out, elonia wore one to trump's Congressional rally.

Then privatize it to TurboTax

This is America....they probably are already obese with diabetes.