[drewcoo]

Tariffs are supposed to change consumer behavior.

What's next? Is Bloomberg going to be telling us that fluoridation is preventing tooth demineralization and not actually helping the Communists?

[dragontamer]

The President and his followers think that Tariffs are something foreigners pay. And they still think that.

[bediger4000]

I feel like we can't impugn any kind of belief about what Trump thinks about tariffs.

It appears to me that Trump sometimes uses the threat of tariffs to get him myself some emoluments. After that, many of his tariffs seem nonsensical

[HarHarVeryFunny]

His followers may believe that, but Trump himself is obviously aware of what a tariff is. He seems to think that he can bully importers such as Walmart into eating the cost of tariffs and not passing the cost onto the consumer, but I suspect he really doesn't care. It makes for better optics if he pretends to care about consumers, but ultimately Trump only cares about Trump, and wants to use tariffs as a way to bully other countries to make himself look good - the tough deal maker. Some of his tariff "deals", such as with UK, have been laughable, but he's happy to go along as long as he can claim victory and get good press out of it.