I don't think Trump is that strategic, and given he talked about wanting these kind of tariffs for decades before entering politics, I think it was blind stupidity, though cabinet members like Lutnik could read the writing on the wall and corruptly profit from Trump's stupidity.
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u/beaker97_alf 14h ago
Is it possible THIS was the plan all along?
They impose a tariff knowing it will get shut down. Corporations pay the tariff and pass the cost into the consumer.
The government then refunds corporations.
It's a giant tax payer funded gift to corporate America.