He also ran as the “no war” president and has so far attempted to start two, and is likely to be involved in a third.

Besides, he started the tariff nonsense in his first term - it even has its own Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%E2%80%93United_States_tr...

This is incredibly wrong and untrue. He promised a $2000 check to every American as a payoff from tariffs during election year and balance the budget at the same time. His chief economic advisor wrote a book on using tariffs to wage war on China and bring manufacturing to USA. He has talked about using tariffs as tool for decades. He just promises so many things, even contradictory things, that it might be hard to keep track of.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c209x48ndjpo

What? He rambled about it all the time. It wasn't coherent but he did always say this is what he was going to do.

Oh ok I didn't follow it that closely of course but that part didn't make it into the news here. He did complain about the trade imbalance but not specifically tariffs.

Ps: there isn't really a trade imbalance if you take services into accounts but Trump calculated them only on goods as if that makes sense

I don't think that would have resonated with his followers at all though.

Did it require more than 6 syllables? Then no: no resonance among the base.