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The price plan seems to be contradictory and not well thought out by the Trump administration. Some days, prices are not negotiable. A different day, another administration official will say that prices are part of a negotiation.
Inconsistency represents instability and chaos.
Perhaps the symbol of the bad conviction of this policy seems to be the fact that Trump has put a 10% price on an island that is inhabited by penguins.
Jake Tapper de CNN asked the agricultural secretary Brooke Rollins on this subject, and the conversation did not go well for Rollins.
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Tapper asked: “And you impose a 10%price. On the propellers and the McDonald Islands, the Herald and McDonald Islands have no human inhabitants. They have no exports, they have no importation. They don’t have many prices.
This is an excellent question, and Rollins answered:
Well, I mean, come on, Jake. Obviously, here is the essential. We live under a tariff regime of other countries. We have seen the McDonald Islands for too long do not impose the idea that America is first. I mean, come on. Oh, me.