It's enriching himself on the taxpayers expense.

Or would you trust someone on advising you, that has a pretty huge financial interest in proposing you policies that will fail because they are illegal?

What evidence do you have that those tariffs were proposed by him?

He bragged about it, and certainly didn't spoke out against them

So I pitch these ideas, and he says, ‘Let’s do it.’ ” Why not replace the I.R.S. with an External Revenue Service, which will collect tariffs and other levies from foreign sources instead of taxing citizens?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/07/28/donald-trumps-...