The Mad King Is Proud Of It

 Turns out it was “C)”.

I am assured Trump posted this himself .

I am also convinced Trump put Vance on the ticket as insurance no one would impeach him or execute the 25th, because that would only make things worse.

Wait, it’s okay. The original post was arguing this is Trump’s genius move to get the Fed to lower interest rates.  

So, let’s recap: Trump is imposing tariffs on the world (including two volcanic islands inhabited by penguins, and Norway and, separately and at a lower rate, a Norwegian peninsula), where he personally set the rates on each country (or uninhabited island) based on his complete misunderstanding of what a trade deficit is, to:

A) end the U.S. subsidies to the world (because that’s what he thinks trade deficits are); 

B) force countries to negotiate on their trade deficit (how they do that depends entirely on the spiders in Trump’s head): 

C) the economy was shit and this is the only way to fix it; or

D) to crash the U.S. market and force Jerome Powell to lower interest rates. No idea why he thinks this one will solve all the country’s problems or even make up for the economic pain already being felt, but 

1) maybe the spiders in his head are bored and hungry and leaving; or

2) reality is relentlessly breaking in and the idea of “pain” is no longer an abstract and inchoate one; or, 

3) he’s lost the thread again, and it’s starting to scare him that the outside world may be real and not just an extension of his ego.

He has no fucking idea what he’s doing, or why.