In a game-show like ceremony in the Rose Garden, President Trump proudly unveiled his tariff package despite the uproar of near-universal objections by pundits, economists, diplomats, factory owners, workers, and anyone with working grey matter between their ears. The global trade wars that everyone rightly feared are already in the works and the American working class will bear the brunt of it. No one will win but billionaire oligarchs, who will find easy pickings among the economic ruin about to fall on many around the world. That “Liberation Day” will bring about the “Golden Age of America” may become a very bad joke, very soon.
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Why on Earth would he do this? Well, his buddy Putin’s Russia is not on the list, while uninhabited islands and bases are, so there’s nothing “reciprocal” (or well thought out) about it. But James Carville, longtime Democratic pundit, has an interesting theory. He suggested that it’s “just Trump going power mad”. He noted that it’s something that Trump can do alone, without asking anyone’s permission, and the mere suggestion immediately sparked anxieties everywhere. Best of all, it gets the whole world fawning on him for favors. The attention must be like a pure hit of high-power opiates to a narcissist like our President.
The idea makes a lot of sense. Since Day 1, our would-be Dictator-for-life has tried to bully his way through everything with executive orders. It does not matter how unconstitutional it may be, he will keep at it until the pushback becomes too great. Then he will lay the blame squarely on everyone else and pivot to another even madder notion.
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It’s nothing new either: Trump has apparently held this belief since the 1980s. And he is as confident in his course as a sleepwalker.
Talking about “Liberation Day”, he said, “It’s going to be a day that – hopefully – you’re going to look back in years to come and you’re going to say, ‘you know, he was right. This has turned out to be one of the most important days in the history of our country.’” No doubt he was right about it being remembered as very important but it is rather unlikely for the reason this stable genius with six casinos he bankrupted on his resume thinks.
