Context/explanation: (at least that’s how i explain it to myself)
It’s about pride. Trump doesn’t like that the “greatest of all countries” US is threatening to have an (even larger) export deficit with china in the future, so he wants to put up tariffs to slow down international trade; this way the deficit becomes a bit smaller he hopes.
And while we’re already at it, let’s extend these tariffs to europe, just for good measure, or so
Context/explanation: (at least that’s how i explain it to myself)
It’s about pride. Trump doesn’t like that the “greatest of all countries” US is threatening to have an (even larger) export deficit with china in the future, so he wants to put up tariffs to slow down international trade; this way the deficit becomes a bit smaller he hopes.
And while we’re already at it, let’s extend these tariffs to europe, just for good measure, or so