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There is no planned strategy. Planning requires learning about entire systems, and Trump isn't smart enough to do that. He can only act on things placed before him. If he sees foreigners making money by selling into the US, he has to raise tariffs on it. There is no second order, third order, or any deeper level of understanding of what's going on. It's purely superficial action, on things Trumps eyes sees, not what his brain sees. There is no brain in there that can predict what would happen if tariffs were raised. He can only raise tariffs.

To be smart is to have systemic understanding, and Trump & the Republicans are incapable of that.

It's exactly what happened in his first term, when he got rid of the nation's pandemic preparedness because why would anyone ever need that, right?