Not purposely, he just literally doesn’t have the capacity

Posted on: April 5, 2025 at 08:01:15 CT

To understand the topic. He almost certainly believes that is what tariffs and trade deficits mean and believes the very stupid formula is legit. There is a difference between being comically wrong about something due to limited understanding and mental capacity vs lying with the intent to mislead. Other than maybe people like the users of this board the only person being ‘misled’ by this position is Trump, nobody sees it as valid or confusingly ambiguous