The Trump Tax numbers are starting to come into focus

That certainly is the Trump and right-wing media narrative, but the numbers show that it hasn't worked.

The first time around, when Trump started handing out tariffs in 2018.

Trump’s First-Term Tariffs Crushed US Manufacturing | Cato at Liberty Blog

"year-to-year growth in manufacturing output fell steadily after September 2018 and was down nearly 4% by October 2019. Manufacturing employment began falling continually after August 2018, long before the COVID-19 scare of March 2020."

Now to 2025:

US factory headcount falling despite Trump's promised manufacturing boom | Reuters

"U.S. manufacturing jobs in December continued an eight-month skid that began last spring after President Donald Trump rolled out aggressive import taxes that he pledged would lead to a resurgence of blue-collar jobs by reshuffling world trade to favor U.S. workers."

The proof is in the pudding. Let's see if Trump can make manufacturing boom, I have my doubts.

Once again, I cite the Law of Comparative Advantage, which suggests that we should specialize in what we do best and use that comparative advantage to trade for what we do not do as well.

Every country doing that results in the optimal outcome for all. The rising tide lifts all boats.

A signal element of Trump's ghastly stupidity is that he thinks that the world economy is a zero-sum game. We can't win unless they lose, blah blah. He literally cannot conceive of mutual benefit.

We have a retarded baboon running, and ruining, our economy.

Brent, we did not miss the point you did.  During the campaign Trump  promised over and over again to lower prices on day one and not just by a little bit nor years later after his tariff scheme plays out. 

The promise was day one not some time in the unknown distant future. He over promised and didn’t even make an attempt to deliver.  Instead he raised prices on day one. 

Tariffs have never worked and they never will. In fact we are seeing that play out right now as manufacturing jobs are disappearing because companies aren’t rushing to build factories in the United States.

People are currently getting laid off in record numbers. People won’t  buy a $3,000 iPhone and these companies can simply not build that type of product and sell it at a price in sufficient quantity that will make it profitable to manufacture those type of goods in the US.

Trump has destroyed our economy and quite honestly Brent we will both be dead by the time it is fixed if ever. We went from the country that was number one in the world to a second rate has been country that nobody wants anything to do with. The world was our oyster and Trump pissed it all away. He did manage to make China greater than it ever has been,