It wouldn't be this steep if he wasn't trying as hard as he can to follow through on his promises of "his own brand" of prosperity, the only way he has ever known how, unfortunately that's when massive losses have always proven the most likely outcome.

Anyone else with a proper business background would have been able to negotiate international trade agreements more favorably, including overall increases in tariffs, and if there was going to be unavoidable downward pressure it would certainly be much less than this at this point.

Plus someone with actual useful deal-making experience would have been able to maintain stability on the way to a noticeable if not shocking upturn by now, there was a lot of low-hanging fruit left over after Biden.

Why not do something with that, rather than take it out on the American people? Just because all of them didn't vote for Trump, he can't bring himself to care about the country as a whole, or average citizens hardly at all. Much less legal residents.

If the only way to "sink the liberals" makes almost everyone else go down with the ship, so be it.