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Mike Greer in the whitehouse image says "Just remember why we're here in the first place -- the United States has a massive $1.2 trillion trade deficit, so the president declared a national emergency and imposed tariffs"
Trump's administration is now just dropping the pretense? When Trump first announced the tariffs on every country, he came out with that tacky board which was labeled the trade deficit as "Tariffs Charged to the US". Then they posted that convoluted math formula which amounted to be trade deficit multiplied by 1. Now they're pretending that they were saying "trade deficit" all along.
they are desperate to try to congeal this into something coherent.
it's like they scatter-shotted every possible explanation into the public and talking heads to try to spin back to Trump as he mindlessly watches TV
oh wait that's exactly what they did