Welcome to Tariff Circus: Where the Clowns Set Global Trade Policy

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Ladies and gentlemen, gather ‘round. You’ve paid for the whole seat, but you’ll only need the edge, because this week, the Trump administration launched a full-blown economic kamikaze stunt disguised as trade policy. Or performance art. Or a live-action adaptation of Idiocracy. Hard to tell.

It started with a midnight drop on Truth Social, a kind of drun…