FRANCE 24’s Sharon Gaffney speaks to Scott Lucas, professor of US and International Politics at the Clinton Institute at University College Dublin, about the tariffs unveiled by Donald Trump. He says that Trump’s announcement on tariffs was filled with lies and distortions and it was the ‘dumbest and most economically illiterate speech I have ever heard’. #Trump #trade #tariffs
I think it’s really important to make the point that he thinks like he thought as a business man. With his thinking, he at least managed to stay rich. Which is a strong indication of how much bluster and how little intelligence it takes to make it when you’re already rich.