It makes plenty of sense if you consider that it wasn’t designed to benefit the US, but rather to drive US trade to our competitors.
Considering how open they’ve been about their clear conflicts of interest (Trump launching a cryptocurrency on day 1 of his presidency, being in charge of a publicly traded company that he’s made no effort to remove himself from, and the Diablo cheater being in charge of a department that gets to determine “efficiency” while also bidding on government contracts), I think we should really consider the possibility that Trump and Musk shorted or bought Puts on companies that would be hit especially hard by tariffs.
It is an exciting time to learn about the country of Lesotho.
Flagged. Of course.
At this point he gives no fucks about what anyone thinks because the plan is to consolidate the oligarchic power to its maximum, russia style. Winning the hearts and minds is not and never was a part of his plan. And the sad thing is that they will probably succeed. I have no idea why you Americans are so naive about someone who staged a putsch to give up power voluntarily now that he’s got it. You will be a russia style full on kleptocracy by the time he’s done with you. And then his heirs will lord over you for generations (unless one of them fucks something up). Godspeed.
Trump is only confusing if you think his policies are meant to benefit America. If you don’t believe that, then his policies are terrifyingly not confusing. If you believe his policies are primarily meant to benefit American oligarchs or Russia, his policies are even less confusing. Withdrawing support for Ukraine and not putting tariffs on Russia, despite putting tariffs on uninhabited “Heard Island and McDonald Islands” is probably the least confused I’ve been since his inauguration.