There is NO WAY that tariffs were about manufacturing coming to America, for MANY reasons. Mostly, we don’t have the labor, let alone cheap labor. If you can’t see that, you ain’t tryin’.

 This may be the most incisive, coherent and damning portrayal of Trump’s cold, black, twisted soul that I’ve ever laid eyes on.  Trump is not a president – he’s a dangerously demented psychopath with a gargantuan persecution complex combined with a bottomless need to dominate and humiliate every individual and every institution he encounters as he bulldozers his way through the cosmos.  That’s all there is. 

The Tariff Saga Is About One Thing, Trump’s Ego

How do you reset the nation’s relationship with its trading partners if those partners are forced to treat you as a bad force that can’t be trusted? 

And how are you supposed to revitalize working-class communities if your trade policies will probably destroy as many blue-collar jobs as they might, theoretically, create?

There is a hypothetical president with a hypothetically similar agenda who could answer these questions. This actual president cannot. He did not reason himself into his preoccupation with tariffs and can neither reason nor speak coherently about them.

There is no grand plan or strategic vision, no matter what his advisers claim — only the impulsive actions of a mad king, untethered from any responsibility to the nation or its people. For as much as the president’s apologists would like us to believe otherwise, Trump’s tariffs are not a policy as we traditionally understand it. What they are is an instantiation of his psyche: a concrete expression of his zero-sum worldview, and his monstrous ego.

His long history of scams and hostile litigation — not to mention his frequent refusal to pay contractors, lawyers, brokers and other people who were working for him — is evidence enough of the reality that a deal with Trump is less an agreement between equals than an opportunity for Trump to abuse and exploit the other party for his own benefit. He’s a conman, and crook.

He bragged about world leaders, ‘coming to kiss my ass’, which was his MAIN intent with tariffs, as he gloated on the world’s stage.

Trump was sadistically squeezing the world’s testicles in his vulgarian little fingers – forcing it to teeter on the precipice of global economic collapse.

This may have been the first time, but it won’t be the last, as his massive ego requires CONSTANT and ever larger attention.

Thanks again, Rupert, and you gullible, ignorant sheep….