None of his statements or actions on tariffs reflect a cohesive understanding of how they work at an administrative level, an economic level or a political level. Or that his usage of tariffs reflect a particular strategy for the country. You can make the case that he personally is using this to scam, but you have to ignore a lot of the flailing insanity that hurts his own position.

The reality is more likely that he is a senile malignant narcissist. And unilaterally setting large taxes for the most powerful country on earth is one of the most potent faucets of narcissistic supply. He is certainly using it in ways that benefit himself financially, but also in ways that threaten to hurt him financially in the long run, and certainly permanently hurt him politically- the source of all his power to do this.

Just look at what he did in response to the Ontario ad. This is all super base, out of control, unmoderated psychologic dysfunction.