Trump’s nausea-inducing, herky-jerky, thrill-a-minute second term has induced enormous disquiet among everyone from business owners to immigrants to laid-off federal workers to foreign students here on shaky student visas and wishing to complete their educations before the rug gets pulled out from under them.
Ominously, Trump chose the last few weeks as the perfect time to unleash economic warfare on nations deemed cheaters. He announced he was single-handedly going to undo decades of unfair trade practices by China and other scalper nations. He hit Beijing, our greatest economic rival, with a whopping 145% tariff on many Chinese products. However, I would not count on those proposed penalties surviving this process.
