It's hilarious Trump managed to destroy the ecomony AND spike inflation with his tariff nonsense. Even from a protectionist standpoint it's so needlessly self-destructive you think he's doing it on purpose.

>B-but he's trying to protect American businesses!

Then why did he give them literally no time to react to his tariff plan? He knew most American companies sourced products and materials internationally, and he must've known they would need at least a few years to change gears and move to more domestic pipelines (if even possible in the first place). But, for some reason, Trump felt the need to act with extreme urgency and tariff the living hell out of them all with little to no warning, like he wanted American businesses to suffer. His plans make no sense no matter how you look at them, you would have to be wilfully or actually retarded to defend them.