"He really, truly thinks that stopping trade with China entirely is good

[senseandsensibility]

He doesn't care how much damage it does to the economy or how many businesses go under-he thinks that if Americans buy anything from China we are losing money so it should stop there's no twelve dimensional chess here"

I agree with this analysis by Micah on bluesky. Not that familiar with him or her, but they have 77K followers and this post is better analysis of trump's frame of mind than the BS dished out by most corporate journalists.

So...if we stop buying anything from China, how does that help the average American? Is that too difficult for someone in the press pool to ask?

[Irish_Dem]

1. If Americans stop spending money, there is more money for Trump to steal?

He wants all resources to go to him.
Not China or anyone else.

[senseandsensibility]

2. If we had a real adversarial press

they would ask that exact question. But they're too wimpy even to ask the one I posted in my OP.

[Irish_Dem]

3. The media works for the PutinGOP.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. Who needs clothes or other products on the shelf

We will have empty shelves in stores soon

[senseandsensibility]

5. Yeah forget thirty dolls or a hundred pencils

We might not be able to get anything we need in our daily lives. He has no idea how normal people live.

[JCMach1]

6. The coupling of America's economy to China's took 30 years

3 years is the equivalent of separating Siamese Twins without anaesthesia, antibiotics, or reconstructive surgery.

The is NO WAY to decouple America's economy from China