Trump Says "There May Be Some Pain In a Trade War": As He Prepares To Fuck the US Economy

In what has to be the understatement of the fucking century, President Donald Trump casually admitted there might be "some pain" from his tariff policies, displaying all the empathy of a brick wall and the economic understanding of a toddler playing Monopoly.

The Art of Screwing the Deal

"Some pain." Let those words sink in for a moment. This coming from the self-proclaimed business genius who wrote "The Art of the Deal" (or rather, had it ghostwritten). The same man who claimed trade wars were "easy to win" just admitted that his brilliant strategy would hurt Americans. No shit, Sherlock.

Trump's exact words were, "I'm not saying there won't be a little pain... We might lose a little bit of it but we're going to have a much stronger country when we're finished." This statement ranks right up there with "Mexico will pay for the wall" in the pantheon of …