Degen

Anyone got a read on what the Trumpsta's angle is with all these tariffs? Feels like the U.S. is intentionally isolating itself, creating a power vacuum for China or others to step in. Is the U.S. just broke? Running out of options? Or is it pure ego—thinking all innovation starts and ends in America, and the rest of the world’s just along for the ride? Or maybe there’s a 4D chess play to destabilize global markets and reshuffle the deck?

My 2 cents is the team trying to hit on the trade deficit angle (to reduce it) looking at how they came out with the reciprocal tariff table, but that is assuming the other 180 countries won't retaliate and 2nd order effects are definitely murky.