U.S. President Donald Trump makes an announcement about a trade deal with the U.K., in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 8, 2025. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo
As President Donald Trump's administration announced a cooling in the tariff trade war with China, critics were quick to pile on.
And, though Trump's team promoted the deal which slashed a 145 percent charge on imports to just 30 percent as a huge win, his detractors saw it as him backing down.
The agreement, made in Geneva over the weekend, puts the new charges in place for 90 days. China cut its 125 percent tariff to 10 percent.
" Trump started the fire with his erratic tariffs, now he surrenders. Yet media claims Trump is a savior for making a trade deal with China.
"There is NO deal. Trump surrendered but not before he caused much pain to small and mid-sized businesses, dock workers, truckers and people with 401ks/stocks," Sirius XM host Dean Obeidallah said on Bluesky.
ML Porter, whose claims to be an Ohio County Democratic Chair on his Bluesky profile, "Trump LIED - There is NO China Trade Deal - Just A Roll-back of Liberation Day Tariffs”
Meanwhile, on X, political commentator Brian Krassenstein, who has 900,000 X followers, posted, "Trump claimed he had a trade deal with China. Instead he walked back Liberation Day. Please find me the details of the trade deal."
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