EPTOn September 03 2026 07:59 KwarK wrote:
This is completely consistent with everything he’s said in the past. People tried to explain what he really meant in 2016 when he described a balance of trade deficit with China as a payment the government was making to China and said his strategy would be to stop making the payment. But what he meant was exactly what he said. He thinks a balance of trade deficit is an expense that can be negotiated down or voided. It’s not even mercantilism, though that’s the economic trade theory that he most closely subscribes to. It’s like if mercantilism was explained by an idiot who had learned about it from another idiot’s description of a TikTok about it.
This is completely consistent with everything he’s said in the past. People tried to explain what he really meant in 2016 when he described a balance of trade deficit with China as a payment the government was making to China and said his strategy would be to stop making the payment. But what he meant was exactly what he said. He thinks a balance of trade deficit is an expense that can be negotiated down or voided. It’s not even mercantilism, though that’s the economic trade theory that he most closely subscribes to. It’s like if mercantilism was explained by an idiot who had learned about it from another idiot’s description of a TikTok about it.
The people who have constantly played off his idiocy have no more excuses. I guess it’s hard to admit you are wrong but you would think people would buck up for something this important. But instead they handed the keys to the castle to a moron who’s only interest is himself, and the worst part of it all is he barely hid it.
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