[0] https://prospect.org/economy/2025-04-03-theyre-not-tariffs-t...
[1] I'm an altruistic old man. No ageism here. Resentment and greed are choices.
Drive inflation at home and inflation and weaponry abroad, we'll get war sooner rather than later and then adversaries can make their moves.
>Almost everything Mr Trump said this week—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded. ... On economics Mr Trump’s assertions are flat-out nonsense. ... And Mr Trump’s grasp of the technicalities was pathetic. ... This catalogue of foolishness will bring needless harm to America.
He was correct that it was finalized just over 100 years ago, but just can't figure out anything else about economic stuff like that.
(Iacocca died 2019)
A majority of successful businessmen over the decades would never consider him a businesslike thinker at all, just the opposite of an advanced thinker was a much more widespread consensus before he became well-known as a media curiousity.
People just can't legitimately expect anything different at this point, the bigger the stakes , the greater the losses. His consistency in this regard was legendary, and it took decades before there were millions more people who fell for his carefully crafted media image, in excess of the millions who had always ridiculed him.
The only consolation is that those who have trusted him most end up losing the most.
That's not much of a consolation when everybody loses and the US itself is in grave danger from the actions of these people.
At the moment, he is pulling the biggest heist he has ever attempted with the help of his buddies in Congress and the American Oligarchy. They're going to try and separate everyone from everything they have.
Ride this out and buy nothing but food, bills, and gas.
He is a conman, but not a good one. He attracts conmen who are better at the game than he is and they have been milking him for decades. He had eventually to get into business with shady East-European businessmen who used him as a front. He was in descent to money laundering when he won the elections 2016.
How many other conmen have conned 77.3 million (at least, that's just in the US and I hear there are many outside the US who have fallen for his schtick)? There have been a few others in this class (Mao, Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, etc.) but there's no denying that he has confidence skillz...