President Donald Trump’s plan was to bully our G7 allies on a range of issues by touting the strong U.S. economy. As The Washington Post’s Greg Sargent wrote Friday morning, “Trump will proclaim his ‘America First’ agenda a smashing success, and throw that in the faces of our European allies.”

That plan will have to be changed now that his trade war with China just exploded.

China imposed tariffs of $75 billion of U.S. goods on Friday. Trump launched a tweetstorm causing the DOW to drop more than 600 points (at several times during the day more than 700 points.)

The president apparently found wiping out the value of millions of Americans’ 401(k)s amusing:

The Dow is down 573 points perhaps on the news that Representative Seth Moulton, whoever that may be, has dropped out of the 2020 Presidential Race!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 23, 2019

And just an hour after the markets closed, Trump once again took to Twitter, announcing he is increasing tariffs against China on $250 billion of goods.

“Trump’s appearance [at the G7] will in reality demonstrate that the very nationalist agenda he will be touting is, thus far, a record of deep fraudulence and failure, covered up with lies,” Sargent added. “Trump’s ‘America First’ agenda, particularly the trade war with China, is a key reason the U.S. economy is now at greater risk of tipping into recession.”

“It’s important to appreciate just how heavily Trump’s political mystique relies on the constant middle finger he gives to allies and international leaders. It’s central to the story he told in 2016 and the one he’ll tell in 2020.”

Last year President Trump promised winning trade wars is “easy.”

When a country (USA) is losing many billions of dollars on trade with virtually every country it does business with, trade wars are good, and easy to win. Example, when we are down $100 billion with a certain country and they get cute, don’t trade anymore-we win big. It’s easy!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 2, 2018

Read the entire piece at The Washington Post.

President Donald Trump is being mocked right now for his insane Twitter meltdown in response to China’s announcement it is imposing $75 billion on tariffs on U.S. goods.

But it was not only Trump’s meltdown, but his insistence that he can dictate how private American companies operate that added to the hilarity.

After saying China has “stolen our Intellectual Property at a rate of Hundreds of Billions of Dollars a year,” and claiming “We don’t need China,” Trump made this fascist declaration:

“Our great American companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alternative to China, including bringing your companies HOME and making your products in the USA.”

The President of the United States does not have any authority to do that.

Many responded in mockery with the hashtag #Iherebyorder, which is now a top tending topic. Take a look:

I hereby order the White House staff to take @realDonaldTrump to
Walter Reed, and to convene the cabinet under Section 4 of the Twenty-fifth Amendment.#Iherebyorder

— George Conway (@gtconway3d) August 23, 2019

I hereby order my Great American Cat not to wake me up at 6am

I hereby order my Great American Daughter to be nice to her dad even when she feels like a moody teenager

I hereby order our Great American postal service not to deliver flyers from stores I don’t like#IHerebyOrder

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) August 23, 2019

Fun fact: #iherebyorder is socialism.

— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) August 23, 2019

I hereby order you to get off my lawn.#iherebyorder pic.twitter.com/pWIWqLJWql

— Smitty D (@smittyd060) August 23, 2019

“I hereby order all the Filet-O-Fish in town.”#Iherebyorder pic.twitter.com/8fanqW9FPB

— Orange Leader (@OrangeLeaderUSA) August 23, 2019

#iherebyorder mental health check on the President of the United States

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) August 23, 2019

I hereby order all television networks to consult me *personally* before canceling programs that I like.
I hereby order all pizzerias to cease putting pineapple on pizza.
I hearby order all technology companies to put real security into the #InternetOfThings#IHerebyOrder

— Maureen Sheridan (@mcscajun) August 23, 2019

I hereby order that we all time travel back to November 2016, knowing what we know.#Iherebyorder

— Terry Dresbach (@draiochta14) August 23, 2019

#IHerebyOrder Trump to resign.

— Tracy Gies (@trackallan) August 23, 2019

I hereby order Republicans to get real about Trump’s mental state.#Iherebyorder https://t.co/eFhMsM6Mh1

— George Conway (@gtconway3d) August 23, 2019

#IHereByOrder all toilet paper be hung in the correct position. pic.twitter.com/tJ6TWB4VCX

— Shelly (@TexHellCat) August 23, 2019

I hereby order @SpeakerPelosi to start impeachment proceedings #iherebyorder

— ThomasPaine (@ThomasP95104077) August 23, 2019

I hereby order all Republican politicians to tweet all anti-Trump statements they made before November 8th, 2016.#IHerebyOrder pic.twitter.com/MLINgjFb28

— iglooslice (@iglooslice) August 23, 2019

#Iherebyorder @POTUS, @DonaldJTrumpJr @EricTrump @IvankaTrump and the Trump Organization to immediately STOP doing business with China. Perhaps before ordering everyone else to do it. pic.twitter.com/eAqz7hiPDK

— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) August 23, 2019

In an apparent attempt to “one-up” and embarrass Russia many are wondering if President Donald Trump just tweeted out U.S. national nuclear secrets. Seven people died last week during a “failed test of Russia’s SSC-X-9 Skyfall, a nuclear-powered cruise missile still in development,” as Vox reported. One expert called it a flying nuclear reactor.

President Trump, who has been tweeting up a storm ever since he kicked off his 10-day August vacation at his golf course in Bedminster, NJ, apparently decided late Monday afternoon was a good time to respond – not with condolences for the lives lost, but by gloating.

“The United States is learning much from the failed missile explosion in Russia,” Trump tweeted, needlessly. “We have similar, though more advanced, technology. The Russian ‘Skyfall’ explosion has people worried about the air around the facility, and far beyond. Not good!”

Some were quick to realize Trump at least sounded like he was (once again) revealing national secrets via Twitter.

Assuming he’s not lying, Trump would seem to be casually tweeting out national secrets. https://t.co/7NiWD19aXh

— Chris O’Leary | Baseball (@thepainguy) August 12, 2019

Here’s the Communications Director for U.S. Congressman Don Beyer (D-VA), who sits on the House Ways and Means Committee and the Science Committee.

Tweeting about the status of secret nuclear weapons research, as one does https://t.co/wpZQ5rjRl4

— Aaron Fritschner (@Fritschner) August 12, 2019

Some experts chastised the President, while appearing to try to assure the world Trump was basically bluffing.

Here’s a professor of international relations and national security at the U.S. Naval War College:

It is a bad idea for the President to tell the world the U.S. has secret nuclear powered super-weapons and that we’ve been lying about that for years. Especially if we don’t actually have them, which we almost certainly do not. https://t.co/pK0sNPRpeg

— David Burbach (@dburbach) August 12, 2019

Here’s a noted nuclear weapons expert:

This is bizarre. We do not have a nuclear-powered cruise missile program. We tried to build one, in the 1960’s, but it was too crazy, too unworkable, too cruel even for those nuclear nuts Cold War years. https://t.co/DWMn07yO3Y https://t.co/7Uqpx7B7Sk

— Joe Cirincione (@Cirincione) August 12, 2019

There were other responses from some notables.

Washington Correspondent for TIME magazine:

Did the President just confirm the existence of a missile system with mini-nuclear reactors aboard, eliminating distance limitations, and that can fly low and weave around anti-missile shields? https://t.co/Bg1bzBXRwG

— Phil Elliott (@Philip_Elliott) August 12, 2019

ACLU Attorney:

If news reports on nature of the Russian test are correct, then the President has just asserted that the US has nuclear-propelled cruise missiles.

That would be newsworthy. https://t.co/XhxzLM5l0k

— Dan McFadden (@Dan_McF) August 12, 2019

Reuters DC National Security Correspondent:

Huh? Is he saying the US has secretly developed a nuclear-powered cruise missile? Project Pluto was canceled in July 1964. At same time, he confirms story I published Friday on experts suspecting explosion of Skyfall. https://t.co/Df8pHAS8Gm https://t.co/SXp12oxq3I

— Jonathan Landay (@JonathanLanday) August 12, 2019

More:

So, is the President of the United States lying/bluffing about our capabilities (we don’t have missiles with tiny nuclear reactors) or just revealing our secret weapons to the world… Which is worse? https://t.co/LpO7bY1nlI

— Real Talk 910 (@RealTalk910) August 12, 2019

We just learned today that the U.S. has a secret #nuclear program. Anyone know anything about this? #skyfall https://t.co/EdckQDnhS3

— Jason Tiscione (@JasonTiscione) August 12, 2019