Where was all this when past Presidents including Trump in his first term were enacting tarriffs?
The administration moved to block off a popular tariff-free path for Chinese apparel coming into the United States, and added stiff levies on electric vehicles, solar panels and other products.
www.nytimes.com
President Obama slapped tariffs on Chinese tires in 2009. It ended up costing more jobs than it saved, one study found.
money.cnn.com
en.m.wikipedia.org
I get that what Trump is doing is much broader than those examples but President’s can either levy tariffs or they can’t.