Trump's All-Purpose Go-To Tactics
He's not smart. He's not strategic. He's just repetitive and relentless. Now he's applying all the same old go-to tactics to his tariffs.
Donald Trump only possesses a handful of all-purpose tactics that he pulls out for any and all occasions. He’s not clever enough or self-assured enough to meet each situation with commensurate responses. He surrounds all of his interactions with copious amounts of bluster, but the bluster is just a masquerade for his deep internal fear.
His vocabulary of actions is even more limited than the vocabulary of his oratory.
His tariff policy (if you can even refer to the erratic mess he’s created as “policy”) gives us the perfect opportunity to witness his “moves” in action. In fact, they’ve all already been sitting right out there in plain sight.
You’ve seen them all before, in one form or another. Here’s the list, in roughly the same order in which they’ve been playing out in the context of the Trump tariffs:
Overpromise
For decades, Trump touted what he…
