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Trump is playing high-stakes poker on tariffs
And the US consumer market is now the world’s richest chip.
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Donald Trump is a compulsive dealmaker, someone who loves to drive a hard bargain and win — or at least appear to, says the writer.
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Rana Foroohar
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Donald Trump isn’t even president yet, but the world is already locked into a dysfunctional dance with him. Headlines herald the beginning of his tariff war while pundits prognosticate about all the disastrous things that will follow as a result.
But most of these analyses fundamentally misinterpret the President-elect and his “policies”. Trump is not a policymaker.
