Chaos economy: Trump's new tariffs signal dark days for America

During the last election, economics was on everyone's minds. Despite the greater economy being healthy with an extraordinary job market not seen since the 1960s, people told pollsters that they were extremely upset about the high cost of living that had been brought on by the disruption of the pandemic and took a couple of years to finally sort out. In poll after poll, Americans said that inflation was the biggest problem facing the nation.

When asked what he planned to do about this, then-candidate Donald Trump's only answers were "tariffs!" and "growth." It was the cure-all for every economic pain that ailed us. Here he is answering a question about what specific legislation he would propose to deal with the high cost of child care. Yes, you guessed it: tariffs.