Mike Adams (aka the “Health Ranger“) is a best selling author (#1 best selling science book on Amazon.com called “Food Forensics“), an environmental scientist, a patent holder for a cesium radioactive isotope elimination invention, a multiple award winner for outstanding journalism, a science news publisher and influential commentator on topics ranging from science and medicine to culture and politics.
It really takes a wildly dishonest administration to declare that trade imbalances are "tariffs" placed on the USA by other nations. And I was defending Trump's tariffs this entire time! That is, until I found out his claimed tariff numbers were complete lies. This has been confirmed by China, Taiwan, EU countries and many more. Trump's touted "tariff" numbers are all based on trade deficits, not tariffs. In other words, Trump is saying that since Americans buy more stuff from China than China buys from the USA, the imbalance is therefore a "tariff" imposed by China. I had no idea of the level of economic illiteracy that's now being demonstrated by Trump's people. Next, they will probably call deficits "premiums" or something similarly stupid. Sadly, we've arrived at the point in history where the administration in charge of the nation doesn't know what words mean.