Donald Trump‘s genius economic plan was basically the same strategy as a schoolyard bully. He figured the United States was the most important country in the world, so why not squeeze other countries with destructive tariffs? I mean, what are they going to do? Trade with someone else? Yeah, right…
As it turns out, that’s precisely what the rest of the world has done. For example, when Brazil imprisoned corrupt former leader Jair Bolsonaro after he attempted to stage a coup, Trump slammed tariffs on them. Rather than bow down to him, Brazil’s Lula quickly redirected trade to China. Beef prices in the United States promptly skyrocketed, and Trump backed down.
