Trump has no understanding of tariffs, nor economics, nor anything involving facts.
While all of that it’s true, I don’t think people who points this out is getting the picture. Yes, this is right. But that’s the point of tariffs. Their point is not “we are going to pay foreign companies taxes for things they do in their own country”, but “we are going to make the local companies who import stuff from abroad pay extra taxes on those products, so it’s more competitive for them to get them from local shops instead of abroad”.
Which, you know, it’s not necessarily a bad thing in the long term. sometimes. or not. It’s complicated.
