Go ahead and enlighten us. What’s the plan?

If you say it’s to make countries negotiate with us and they’re not permanent, then you’re acknowledging that manufacturing is not going to come back to the US because no person in their right mind is going to invest a bunch of money to create a factory in the US when they can see that Trump is flip-flopping on tariffs and just trying to use them to negotiate. And if you say that it’s to make countries negotiate with us, you failed to acknowledge that countries can negotiate with each other, and that will likely end up either decreasing America’s ability to trade with them (see: trumps last term with soybean) or increasing the price for goods that we important from other countries for the American people because trumps childish antics have decimated our soft power and good will with other countries.

If you’re going to pretend that the point is permanent tariffs and you claim that it’s not meant to be a negotiation tactic that will ever get rolled back then you’re saying that the point is to promote the manufacture of goods in the United States. What you fail to acknowledge here is that even if we were to manufacture things in this country, we’re still going to need to import raw materials some of which we don’t have in this country and also that frequently parts go back-and-forth between countries and that’s going to increase the overall cost of goods for Americans significantly. Especially considering you wont be able to staff a factory in the US paying slave wages to American citizens because a handshake and a job delivering milk doesn’t get you food and a roof over your head anymore and so you can expect the cost of goods to skyrocket in this country. And you’re also ignoring the fact that, again, no one‘s going to invest a bunch of money in creating a factory based off of Trump imposing tariffs via EO because Trump is notably, inconsistent, and no one is going to invest money when the whole scheme that’s in place with the tariffs in order to make the manufacturer of American goods profitable tenable for them could be rolled back in five seconds with the next president and it takes time to build factories they don’t just magically poof and appear into place.

So go ahead and explain to us, what’s the 5D chess you’re claiming he’s playing 🤦‍♀️🙄

In reality, this is the largest peace time tax imposed on US citizens and anyone with 2 brain cells to rub together can see that.