Surprised Pikachu - you mean to tell me that tariffs didn’t result in manufacturers happily deciding to ramp up domestic production and creating more jobs for Americans in need? Who’d have thunk.

Unpredictable tariffs specifically. Even if one disagrees with tariffs, you can still roll them out in a predictable and legal manner. Cooking up a national emergency then changing them arbitrarily is a recipe for disaster.

Legally they don't seem to be valid either (how does an emergency require tariffing the entire world?), but of course the federal courts are letting them stay in place while it works its way up to SCOTUS.

If tariffs would be aimed for final goods, while inputs remained untariffed, then maybe it could work. But the moment when Trump started issuing blanket 20-30-60-100% tariffs, the whole plan essentially imploded.

Quite a few HackersNews commenters thought so.

The only type of "jobs" Trump is interested in are the ones he used to get on Epstein's island.