Yep. He flip flops like a dying fish. There is no way to predict what idea he's going to have 90 days from now.

Responding in good faith to other countries’ willingness to negotiate fair trade terms isn’t exactly flip flopping. In fact he did the same thing with Mexico. If the market was paying attention it would have accounted for this…

It's interesting how person's nakedly obvious dump and pump corrupt opportunism is another's "responding in good faith."

The problem remains. Anyone who imports from China - which covers a lot of the economy - is screwed.

And Rest of World no longer trusts anything he says.

He is pathologically incapable of operating in good faith.

Good faith would have included

- not lying about tariffs being taxes on other countries that would replace us paying taxes

- not calling trade deficits tariffs and pretending to impose reciprocal tariffs

- negotiating ahead of time like normal people and clearly communicating the path forward

> other countries’ willingness to negotiate fair trade terms

This is a fabricated justification. There has been literally zero public reporting of any trade negotiations post-tarifpocalypse. The only people saying there are deals being made are the White House, who have produce zero evidence of deals.

No, Trump was responding[1] to the movement of the market and in particular to the sudden spike in federal bond rates. This was absolutely not a win for Art of the Deal. There was no Deal.

[1] In "good faith", to be sure.

Bessent said this was the strategy from the beginning.