Well summarized.
President Donald John Trump once again roped the dopes in the media with his Mexican tariffs.
Like Wile E. Coyote thumbing through the Acme catalog, they knew better but gave into their worst impulses.
To be sure, President Trump was deadly serious about the imposition of tariffs.
But he also knew he would not have to.
President Trump had the battle won the instant he tweeted tariff. The Mexican government did not bother putting up a fight. The words were kind and diplomatic, and the capitulation was swift and painless.
The government seized the money of human traffickers, sent thousands of its National Guardsmen to its southern border, and agreed to stop the caravans.
That was one success.
The other success was that in the wake of the stock market's indigestion over tariffs, the Federal Reserve lost its appetite for raising interest rates, much to the president's delight.
But the political side also had a success as President Trump watched his critics throw their grenades -- into telephone wires that shot the grenades right back at them.
Read it all.
Don Surber: Trump's Mexican tariff rope-a-doped critics
President Donald John Trump once again roped the dopes in the media with his Mexican tariffs.
Like Wile E. Coyote thumbing through the Acme catalog, they knew better but gave into their worst impulses.
To be sure, President Trump was deadly serious about the imposition of tariffs.
But he also knew he would not have to.
President Trump had the battle won the instant he tweeted tariff. The Mexican government did not bother putting up a fight. The words were kind and diplomatic, and the capitulation was swift and painless.
The government seized the money of human traffickers, sent thousands of its National Guardsmen to its southern border, and agreed to stop the caravans.
That was one success.
The other success was that in the wake of the stock market's indigestion over tariffs, the Federal Reserve lost its appetite for raising interest rates, much to the president's delight.
But the political side also had a success as President Trump watched his critics throw their grenades -- into telephone wires that shot the grenades right back at them.
Read it all.
Don Surber: Trump's Mexican tariff rope-a-doped critics