I've been saying that Trump and his 'ideas' on tariffs are just... completely, fundamentally broken and self contradictory, at every possible level.
He literally just doesn't get it, he doesn't grasp what you'd be taught in AP Macroecon or a first quarter of Macroecon at a college or uni.
Yes, of course, more competent oligarchs can profit from an engineered economic collapse...
But Trump and his immediate orbit are literally too stupid to understand why what they are doing won't work the way they think it will.
These idiots are very largely at the peak of the dunning kruger confidence vs actual knowledge curve, right before you fall off into the abyss of 'oh shit this is actually really conplicated and i am a moron.'
Of course, they'll never admit they are morons or were ever wrong, they'll just keep lying, misdirecting, and inventing new insane conspiracy theories with secret enemies thaf explain why they failed