[exe34]

> The administration characterizes trade imbalances as countries taking advantage of us.

it seems likely to me that they know their voting base is too dumb to understand, so they make up stuff that sounds good to get the support.

[matwood]

Like how they keep incorrectly characterizing VAT.

[exe34]

It's interesting how they kept changing their excuse for not putting tariffs on Mother Russia, and finally landed on something they thought was plausible.