The ribbon-cutting celebration of the Gordie Howe International Bridge is no longer taking place after Trump announced a 50% tariff on Canadian goods
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Seriously, what’s Trump’s obsession with tariffs? I know he’s a belligerent asshole, but why tariffs? This idiot almost certainly doesn’t even know what they are and i doubt anyone in his circle cared enough about them to put the obsession in his head. Maybe it’s just a half remembered section he kept from college.
because he’s poorly educated, has no sense of how to run the economy of a country. His fan base thinks he’s punishing other countries with a tax they pay. The whole country has lead poisoning.
His Pops probably had some tarrif scam where he made huge bank. Young Donny has vague memories of his father waxing nostalgic for tariffs.
Trump is an incurious idiot, there is no rational explanation of why he is obsessed with tariffs he has simply become convinced they work magic.
That dementia-ridden stroke-damaged brain is an enigma to everyone, including the man himself. Maybe some economist in 1986 said it to him 50 times in a single meeting.
Its something he can get away with, even if temporarily, to cause chaos and make bank with insider trading. The courts are too slow.