President Trump has tried three sequential ways to inflict tariffs on U.S. consumers under the guise of punishing trading partners with misuses of retaliatory ratios, alleged unfair trade practices, and emergency economic powers — but as with saber rattling and swords of Greenland, Venezuela, and Iran — the question is not just why, but why now?
As we write about in our instant New York Times bestseller, Trump’s Ten Commandments, Donald Trump only has so many tricks up his sleeve; and his latest trade and tariff tantrums reflect yet another diversionary maneuver as part of his “Wall of Sound” — his perpetual noise machine of constant, overwhelming distractions to divert attention away from bad news.
