What Is Hannity Smoking?

Trump did a sit-down interview Tuesday with the Economic Club of Chicago, and it was, in no uncertain terms, a sh*t show.

Any credible observer viewing Trump's weaving, bobbing, rambling, and ignorant non-sequitur responses to all the questions John Micklethwait, editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News asked him would say it was an unmitigated disaster.

Rolling Stone's headline reads: Trump Crumbles When Pressed on Economic Policy in Tense Interview

The grilling exposed Trump’s total cluelessness with regard to his own economic policy, and led Trump to attack Micklethwait as biased. When questioned about the specifics of his plan, and if he was aware of its pitfalls, Trump seemed ignorant of basic economic principles, insisting that other countries, not American consumers, would pay for the tariffs.

Micklethwait tried to explain the actual impact. “Three-trillion worth of imports and you will add tariffs to every single one of them, and push up the cost for all of these people to buy foreign goods,” he said. “That is just simple mathematics.”
Trump countered that he was “always good at mathematics,” and that high tariffs — and thus costs — would force companies to move production into the United States.

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