Trump on trade war with China: "When you're already $500 Billion DOWN, you can't lose!"
By Matthew Yglesias
April 4, 2018 at 10:40AM
via Vox: All Posts by Matthew Yglesias https://www.vox.com/2018/4/4/17197266/trump-500-billion-down-tweet
«There is no empirical or theoretical basis for this view, which is why no president of either party has ever attempted to make it the centerpiece of his national economic strategy. It's just wrong. It's the kind of thing you might come up with if you were a wealthy landlord and reality television personality who ran for president on a whim without learning anything about issues or public policy.»