They make a lot of sense if you consider that the man up top is an actual stupid person and he is surrounded by sycophants. He has suggested for decades that he understands trade deficits to be identical to subsidies. He prefers mob-boss dynamics as opposed to mutual alliances. He legitimately thinks he can engineer a market economy's prices with his closed-door meetings with CEO buddies.
It is gobsmackingly dumb, but remember we have no evidence of him being anything other than gobsmackingly dumb. It's a very parsimonious explanation of everything he does.
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They make a lot of sense if you consider that the man up top is an actual stupid person and he is surrounded by sycophants. He has suggested for decades that he understands trade deficits to be identical to subsidies. He prefers mob-boss dynamics as opposed to mutual alliances. He legitimately thinks he can engineer a market economy's prices with his closed-door meetings with CEO buddies.
It is gobsmackingly dumb, but remember we have no evidence of him being anything other than gobsmackingly dumb. It's a very parsimonious explanation of everything he does.
I mean, being born rich makes it way easier to fail upwards.