Oh, absolutely. I am totally convinced that Trump’s main goal is to line his own pockets and those of his criminal friends.

I was merely trying to reflect what Trump’s official plan is - especially in light of the fact that the US economy actually does have some problems. These include among other things steadily rising interest payments to creditors and the strong dollar, which has very obviously been at odds with weakening industrial production for quite some time.

However, the Mar-a-Lago Accord (not an accord yet by the way but merely a strategy paper) was drawn up by his main economist, Miran. This guy is apparently convinced that the problems that the US economy has could be solved in this way.

But still: even if Trump wasn’t a criminal who is only interested in his own advantage, I still don’t think his economist’s plan could work. Even without Trump, this would be pretty absurd. But with Trump I think it is impossible, because this moron even makes it worse - for example by not introducing the tariffs gradually as planned, but immediately at the maximum percentage (prolly to make more on insider trading). This is disastrous even in the context of this already crazy plan.

So in short, Trump’s economists want to fundamentally reshape the global economy (by pure force) with a pretty absurd plan - but Trump’s greed and stupidity makes it even less likely that this could ever work.

Oh, and: In any case, all of this is very much at the expense of US citizens - except for the usual 1 percent, of course.

Edit: Probably a misunderstanding: I didn’t mean that you were wrong about Trump jeopardizing the long-term prosperity of the US economy - I completely agree with you. I just wanted to say that the US economy was indeed already fragile before him, but that’s not because of Biden, but because of a long-term development that led there.