Counter prediction: he does it, the economy gets worse but does not collapse, and things just continue to slowly get shittier.

This will be funny when it bankrupts my employer because they can't pay to import any of the components we need to make anything at a +30% markup.

Lathe time: by some bizarre set of circumstances this actually makes the US economy better and everyone loved Trump (extremely unlikely but hey, we live in strange times).

Do it coward!

do it

this'll have to be argued down, if he tries to do this the american economy will collapse

or worst possibility china concedes on a bunch of stuff like pushovers

Okay so if his goal (as his followers interpret it, not what he believes, because whatever is rattling around his head is like blonde celebs from the 80s and 90s, the desire to eat a McDonald's meal, racism, and some sort of deeply nested insecurities his parents put there) is economic protectionism, this will surely backfire and trash the economy like brexit on steroids. This is like sawing off your legs to make you a faster runner.

There is no way the key holders of the government and economy will let him do this. Unless this is their final plan to Shock Doctrine the USA and firesale everything not nailed down and implement actual feudalism but I somehow doubt they have the stomach to pitch the country into a 40 year recession to do it. Somebody has to know that there aren't enough raw resources to claw back from this on a time frame that isn't shit their grandkids will inherit and not themselves.

Either way this is going to wreck so much shit so I have lots of doubts

Critical support for comrade Trump in his war on American Empire.

Strongest Vanguard of the Revolution

I suddenly realized I need to order a lot of stuff from Aliexpress.

JDPON MAGA

this will absolutely wreck the US economy, which is why I don't think they'll let him do it

Canada?! Why the hell would he do that to Canada of all places? None of this makes any sense whatsoever. The US doesn't have the manufacturing capacity to do anything for itself. It's just going to make consumer goods ungodly expensive.

He said he would impose a 25% tax on all products entering the country from Canada and Mexico, and an additional 10% tariff on goods from China, as one of his first executive orders.

For me the scariest thing is that if he did that or even half of that - it would damage the economy but - of course - he will escape blame by the republicans. And many independents too? He'll spew hateful/toxic lies and create scapegoats (for example - "globalists") and a large percentage of Americans will believe him or sort of believe him or pretend to believe him.