Anyone who still thinks he's playing chess or something only needs to look at the lazy, half-assed way he and his economic advisors calculated the tariff rates. They couldn't be bothered to sift through all the data and figure out exactly how much each country was charging for each product. They just divided US imports into US exports for a given country, converted it to a percentage, and divided it in half.
Not brave, just stupid.
There is no method (that has already been proven) just insane vindictiveness.
Trump and his advisors have no idea what they are doing, because if they did, it means they deliberately set out to make people's lives worse.
Anyone who still thinks he's playing chess or something only needs to look at the lazy, half-assed way he and his economic advisors calculated the tariff rates. They couldn't be bothered to sift through all the data and figure out exactly how much each country was charging for each product. They just divided US imports into US exports for a given country, converted it to a percentage, and divided it in half.