Donald Trump’s tariffs are immediately predictable and shocking.
Foreseeable, Trump has always been Crystal clearance About wanting full tariffs during campaigns. Shockingly, because they have been implemented in a way that appears Extreme and incompetent even By previous Trump standards. As a result, the world is historically uneasy: an indicator of global economic uncertainty shows higher levels of attention More than any time in the 21st centuryworse than the 2008 financial crisis, and even worse than the beginning of the 19th pandemic in 2020.
It turns out that this combination is both predictable and shocking, which has become a theme for the Trump team. Consider two other news reports, both would be fascinating scandals if it weren’t for tariffs.
First, Trump authorized Laura Loomera 9/11 conspiracy theorist and self-proclaimed “proud Islamophobia”, Purge senior government officials. The NSA’s head of the NSA and six NSA staff members were fired this week – It seems to be under the command of Weaver.
Second, the Department of Health and Human Services began laying off staff on Tuesday There are about 10,000 workers. By the end, about a quarter of the department’s staff will be cut as the real risks of measles outbreaks and bird epidemics.
Trump telegraphed the moves during the campaign – pledging to take root of the “deep state” and vowing to get Robert F. Kennedy Jr. But they were shocking, though. It was surprising to include Laura Loomer of everyone in charge of sensitive national security decisions. Given the current public health challenges, the huge scope of the HHS cuts has led my colleague Dylan Scott to describe the situation as “Develop a disaster. ”
It seems like this is a week when we see the Trump administration real and little-known. Not what happened this week must be Worse Although the tariffs may prove to be better than before. Instead, this week reveals the true scope and nature of our Trump issue – and even some of his supporters have started Publicly worrying about things becoming wrong.
In other words, last week undoubtedly showed that Trump’s behavior was like a crazy king.
Since taking office on January 20, Trump has done something shocking and surprising. His blatant political attack on the university, he decided to send innocent Venezuelans to Salvadoran Gulag, whose strange crusades made Canada “make Canada” “51st and state” and he tried his best to shut down the entire USAID because it was all dominating the entire federal agency – we were all doing a friendly attitude – we were accepting an us-school attitude.
But, even after all, some people think there may still be restrictions.
Previous tariffs on China, Mexico and Canada did not cause panic on Wall Street – in part because they were tempered or retreated after implementation. Many conservatives were shocked by Trump’s policies, and his national security team, such as Secretary of State Marco Rubio and National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, were welcomed by more traditional Republican internationalists.
Now, even in these quarters, there is panic.
Wall Street is horrible. S&P 500 S&P definitely lost more value this week During the entire 2008 financial crisis. Republicans like it Ben Shapiro and Erick Erickson If Trump maintains tariff courses, warn of terrible economic and political consequences. Republican national security “professionals” may check any of these ideas that are no longer credible: this week, waltz is Sitting at an Oval Office Meeting During this period, Whibull listed his staff being fired. Even Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) said the tariffs are horrible to the United States.
The key is not to laugh at these people, or say, “I told you.” Instead, it is to illustrate that even those who are blinded to Trump are starting to see what is going on.
What happened: the crazy king’s government.
The term “crazy king” has been abandoned a lot over the past few weeks, but I think it’s worth providing a more precise definition. In my sense, a crazy king is not only a leader who makes bad decisions. It is also not a literal king who takes office through heredity rather than free and fair elections.
Instead, it made them based on reasons that were disconnected from reality and only made sense in their own minds. This is someone who is able to do this with little limitations – in our case, Danger concentration in the administrative department.
The events of this week finally show that the president meets the definition.
Trump decided to ignite the global economy because of his decades of belief that tariffs were key to the prosperity of the United States. No one, even his previous attention to the stock market, could not stop him from taking action on it. Crazy King’s economic policies.
Trump has already put some control over the national security bureaucracy of the world’s largest military force, a clearly unstable conspiracy theorist who once tied himself outside of Twitter headquarters. The people who were supposed to keep Trump boundaries proved powerless and (in the case of waltz) totally humiliated. Crazy King’s national security policy.
Trump outsourced the public health decision to a non-qualified NEPO baby, who embraced almost all the unfounded health theories. He then allowed the man to phase out the positions of our public health bureaucracy in at least two serious public health crises. There is no restraint on the traditionally qualified individual proof of Trump’s health team like Jay Bhattacharya, director of NIH. Crazy King’s Public Health Policy.
So when I say it’s “a week when Trump becomes undeprived”, I don’t mean it’s the first week, we can see things are terrible, and even we have crazy King issues.
Instead, I mean, it’s a week where the full scope of the Crazy King’s problem is so undeniable that even some of Trump’s allies on the right are starting to see it. The only question now is how the country, especially the main members of the Trump League, will react.
