The Golden Box Economy

Inside Trump’s Oval Office spectacle of tariffs, lies, and corporate kowtowing

There’s an old joke that the Trump administration runs on three things: vanity, vengeance, and vaporware. That joke became prophecy this week when Donald Trump summoned Apple CEO Tim Cook to the Oval Office, surrounded himself with his handpicked loyalists-slash-billionaires, and hosted what may be the most dystopian product launch in American history. …