Trump’s Irrational Trade Non Sequitur

Donald J. Trump is rich and therefore is a macroeconomic genius and Jedi mind trick negotiator who always wins. So we are told by his legions of anonymous prolific keyboard cowboys on the internet and a lot of talk show hosts who formerly understood economics. If this is correct, he certainly has a strange way of demonstrating that economic genius situation in interviews. This is especially true when he confuses trade deficits and government deficits, as he often does. Case in point is his recent sit down with Bob Woodard of The Washington Post, which I really look forward to parsing in a minute.  First, as a set up, my fellow American Thinker contributor James Lewis wrote this week that "our colleagues at National Review seem to despise Donald Trump, but they haven't really told us why." With all due respect to Mr. Lewis, and he is due a lot, they actually have told us why. Frankly NRO, including some of the 22 authors who contributed to...(Read Full Article)