What actions have worked? You mean getting other countries to call him in a panic? Also, what he's doing doesn't make any sense.
his economic team justified last week’s sweeping “Liberation Day” tariffs with multiple conflicting explanations that, when considered together, make no sense at all.
The administration wants the public to believe three different things, all of which are in tension. First, Trump’s tariffs are designed to launch a renaissance for American manufacturing replaced by overseas imports, bringing back long lost working class jobs and reinvigorating the blue collar middle class. Second, that the tariffs are meant to raise massive amounts of revenue to replace the progressive income tax. And third, Trump’s advisers and various online sycophants also claim that the purpose is to use the tariffs as pressure on foreign nations to cut bilateral trade deals with the U.S.
Musk has expressed misgivings about the sweeping tariffs on his X platform but
aimed his criticism at the likes of Trump adviser Peter Navarro, who is behind the strategy.
