'When empires fall': British columnist aghast at 'single stupidest thing' Trump has done
Ian Dunt, a columnist for the British publication iNews, found himself shocked and aghast at the economic self-destruction that President Donald Trump is leveling on his own economy.
In his latest piece, Dunt remarked of Trump's big tariff announcement this week that "this is what empires look like when they fall" and then went on to describe damage being done by the president.
"This might be the single stupidest thing any of us will ever see," Dunt argued. "It is stupid in every way: presentationally, intellectually, politically, methodologically, morally and of course economically. The word stupid doesn’t really suffice for the full level of idiocy we’ve now reached."
Dunt found himself particularly appalled by the chart that Trump showed that contained wildly inflated figures about the tariffs foreign nations slap on American products.
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"It looked like something out of US daytime television – those garish cheaply produced shows where you can win a cash prize if you spin a wheel," he remarked. "You half expected a showgirl to appear behind the American flags, draped over a tariff quota rate. That’s what he is really: a cheap knock-off daytime TV presenter."
As if that weren't bad enough, Dunt continued, "The numbers on the chart were pure gibberish."
In fact, the numbers on the chart were so far from reality that Dunt struggled to come up with the words to adequately describe them.
"It’s hard to state just how nonsensical that actually is," he wrote. "You might as well divide the numbers of apples in your kitchen by the number of bagels and use it to calculate your mortgage rate. To criticise it on political or economic grounds is too generous. It operates below the level of rational thought."