Tariffs

• acknowledged that he made up a claim about having a trade deficit when speaking to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau?
• asked Germany’s Angela Merkel a basic question about trade 11 times?
• attacked Canadian PM Justin Trudeau for being “very dishonest and weak” after Trudeau said that Canada would match US tariffs?
• called trade wars “good” and “easy to win”?
• justified tarrifs on French wine because he likes the way American wines look better?
• lifted US sanctions on three companies linked to a Russian oligarch?
• said “China has total respect for Donald Trump and for Donald Trump’s very, very large brain.”
• said Canadians were smuggling goods over the border, like dairy and shoes?
• said tariffs he instituted and tweeted about didn’t exist?
• said, “nobody knows more about trade than me”?
• scrapped planned fireworks tariffs the same day that a firm donated $750,000 of fireworks to his Fourth of July show?
• thought Canada had burned down the White House?
• threatened to end trade with all of America’s allies?
• unilaterally instituted tariffs against the EU, Mexico, and Canada for “national security” purposes?