"Trump says Taiwan “stole our chip industry” and tells them to “cool it”:
"If we would have had one of our presidents put 100% tariff on chips, they would have never left.
They stole our chip industry."
He just reframed the world’s most critical semiconductor supply chain as theft.
Taiwan didn’t build TSMC into the most important company on earth through decades of investment, engineering talent, and strategic vision.
They “stole” it because American presidents “didn’t know what the hell they were doing.”
Then the warning:
“Taiwan would be very smart to cool it a little bit.”
Cool what?
Being a democracy? Wanting to remain self-governing?
In 48 hours Trump called Taiwan “a place nobody knows how to define,” held their arms sales hostage as a “negotiating chip,” said he’s “not looking” to defend their independence, blamed them for stealing American industry, and told them to cool it."