Macro economics is hard. Trump’s base can’t even say the words. 

his base is too damn dumb to put those two very recent and very directly related things together. Or they are willingly ignoring the facts.

I swear, if the grocery store doesn’t start buying $600/month worth of my dryer lint animal figurines, I’m gonna put a 2000% tariff on all the goods I buy from them! They are gonna be soooorrry!

He just created the concept of customs!

Only libs remember his first term!

Especially with Canada. Basically the entire deficit with Canada is discount priced raw oil that is pulled out of the ground in Canada and sent straight to the US to be processed and refined by US workers and sold for high margins to global customers as gas, oil and plastic products. If Canada gets smart, they can…

Yeah, that made me laugh, we got an “amazing deal” for NAFTA 2.0 and now it’s a bad thing. Your administration implemented it...

None of his voters care so long as he’s rounding up brown people to stick in camps and women to shove in breeding centers

A “trade deficit” is not inherently a bad thing, or a sign you’re losing money.  Everyone has a trade deficit with their grocery store.  They buy tons of food from them, but never sell them anything.  Is that a problem that needs to be fixed?

This isnt even news anymore.

Its because they know their base is fucking dumber than a bag of rusty hammers. They know exactly jack shit about even basic economics. A lot of their knowledge of money is how much one of their bro-dozers with a lift kit costs versus how much a new trailer costs. They hear that we are going to put tariffs on cars…

Simple: he’s so deep in the throes of syphilitic senility that he just plain forgot.

Whydid he hire"the best people" in his first term and then end up firing them and calling them stupid?

It’s what Republicans do.  They twice tried to tariff their way to prosperity exactly 100 years ago, and it famously didn’t really work out.

Didn’t Trump negotiate “the most beautiful deal” in the NAFTA 2.0 agreement? (USMCA) Why is he all of a sudden saying the USA is “subsidizing” Canada? 

(shrug) this is allegedly what “everyone” wanted and voted for, so let them lose. I mean, in the end it will be (take your pick) Biden’s/Obama’s/Hillary’s/the mailman’s fault...anyone except the person/people who put this sort of thing into play, of course.

Economist Simon Johnson dubbed the fallout from 2008 a quiet coup. He was spot on. 

Except the super rich. An economic collapse is the fastest and most efficient way to take away wealth from the working class give it to the billionaire class.

No no no! My MAGA colleague said Canada would be paying Minnesota mega-loonies and North Dakota kilo-toonies when we tariff them. Because that’s how his tariffs work, of course.

No words for this lunacy.  Everyone loses.