Tariffs, Trillions, and Fairy Tales

Forty-two million hungry Americans, an $18 trillion hallucination, and the media’s endless encore.

Good morning! Donald Trump’s joint presser with Australia’s Anthony Albanese played like a mash-up of Home Shopping Network and a late-night infomercial for delusion. Between the 400-year-old mirror scare, the victory lap about “settling eight wars in eight months,” and the pledge that China is paying “55 percent in tariffs,” the president essentially t…