It’s almost as if Trump is really, really dumb.
I listened to the CBC interview with Bob Woodward yesterday and one of the many worrying things that stood out to me was the anecdote about advisors trying to educate Mr Trump on trade deficits and what they mean. And how he just couldn’t understand and comprehend the relatively simple economic facts about what trade deficits actually mean. He thinks that the trade deficit with China means that the US just send money to china without getting anything in return. And even though the US has a trade surplus with Canada, he just doesn’t believe the numbers because he “knows” something different.
He’s just one of those ignorant old men who prop up hotel or golf club bars and pontificate with wrongly-remembered and false factoids they heard from other old men in the 1970s and 80s. Sad!
