a good move. Trump has indisputably made things a lot better, here. Doofy, nattering Lefty idiots notwithstanding.
“They have come to us with very good offers, and what I will tell you is that, in negotiating with some of them, they may not like the tariff wall that President Trump has put up. But they have them, so if tariffs are so bad, why do they like them? And then more insidious, we can see that from a practical matter and from academic research, are the non-tariff barriers,” Bessent said. [emphasis added]
Please understand, Trump’s obvious preference is to have no tariffs on either side–that makes the most economic sense. But these are in response to what other countries place on us–they are reciprocal and retaliatory tariffs! They are not an end to themselves, they are a response to tariffs that other countries place on US.