Trump does not like the CHIPS and Science Act to seed a domestic microchip industry and reduce our dependence on Taiwan, and his Commerce Department is actively undermining.

Given Trump's goals -- and the support of people like Bannon for the law -- this is puzzling other than as a matter of spite toward Biden. I suspect he'll end up walking this back, but in the meantime, he's using this as an excuse to torment American and multinational corporations, and a group of federal civil servants who are asked to submit to IQ and arithmetic tests.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/technology/trump-chips-act.html

Strategic communications advisor.

Recovering politics reporter, HuffPost.

Why do you think you know trumps “goals”?

Art of Auto Self-Generation in the Pursuit of Enlightenment (Zero)

I guess you have to pick something. Personally i dont trust anything he says or does. Like a walking propaganda machine, well a narcissist that will tell you what you want to hear. But im just a laymen not a journo

Well, I don’t know anything for certain but his words and tariffs suggest an interest in reshoring American manufacturing.