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‘Tariff Man’ Eschews Day One Tariffs
"Tariff Man" isn't imposing any new tariffs. Yet.
Donald Trump won't slap the world with draconian import duties on "day one," as he threatened repeatedly on the campaign trail. Instead, he's approaching the trade issue "in a measured way," as one senior administration official put it, in remarks to The Wall Street Journal.
For the international community, the most pressing questions around Trump's first week (back) in the Oval Office revolved around trade. "Will he, or won't he?" the world wa
Trump will tire of this debate and chose a path of maximum chaos just to irk those closest to him.
Typical playbook is for authoritarians to screw their erstwhile supporters. I am still trying to figure out how the MAGAT’s get screwed and see it as a screwing. Just because I do not see it does not mean it is not going to happen.
This looks like wishful thinking. The playbook is, when the MAGAT’s get screwed, it’s their assumed enemy’s fault it happened. Blame it on Biden will see a comeback.
In his first term, Trump blamed everything bad that happened on either Obama specifically, Democrats generally, or foreign countries. It would be insanity to expect any different in his second term, with the only change being to swap Biden in place of Obama.
“Thanks, Biden!” doesn’t have the same ring to it as “Thanks, Obama!”