𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗔𝗧𝗢𝗥 𝗘𝗫𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗢𝗥𝗗𝗜𝗡𝗔𝗜𝗥𝗘 𝗥𝗔𝗖𝗛𝗘𝗟 𝗠𝗔𝗗𝗗𝗢𝗪 𝗨𝗡𝗖𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗦 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗢𝗨𝗥𝗖𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗥𝗨𝗠𝗣'𝗦 𝗧𝗔𝗥𝗜𝗙𝗙 𝗠𝗔𝗗𝗡𝗘𝗦𝗦

                                            

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow

Rachel Maddow, perhaps our nation's sharpest online commentator despite being hated with a purple passion by Trumpers, has gotten to the ugly bottom of our President's tariff nonsense.

Maddow's most recent report reveals that Trump's juvenile fixation with tariffs, that has wrecked havoc, not only with the U.S. stock market but markets globally, started with a request to his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, a presidential adviser in Trump's first term, to do research on China.

Kusher did his "research" by going to Amazon to look for book titles about China, finally settling on "Death by China," written by Peter Navarro, who was then called to the White House to be a Trump adviser.

Navarro's book, according to Maddow, contained tariff advice from a fictional character invented by the author, "economist" Ron Vara, whose name comes from rearranging the name Navarro, leaving out one letter.

                                           

This almost absurd story reveals the incompetence and recklessness of Trump’s administration and exposes the idiocy of his economic policy.

“You’d think it would take like a grand plan and some big brains to figure out how to destroy the economy of the richest nation on Earth, but that's not how it's working out,” stated Maddow.

“Turns out, it doesn't take a big idea or a lot of big brains working together.”

As to the made-up Ron Vara, Maddow says: “The problem is, Ron Vara doesn't exist, he never has. . . . The economics expert that Peter Navarro has long cited to explain why he's so gung-ho on tariffs, this person, Ron Vara, is a made-up person. He is a fictional person. Peter Navarro invented Ron Vara as his expert source, so he could quote this expert source over and over and over again in his crackpot books.”

Sadly, the man the American electorate put into the oval office is looking dumber and dumber every day.