There Was Never a Master Plan

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. There is a master plan but it is absurdly simple so tRump makes up the sub-plans on a daily basis

The master plan is: Secure a legacy as the greatest president ever by using tariff taxes to eliminate the income tax. All the other reasons given are gaslighting. Because tRump is a simpleton, he bought into the "shock and awe" approach and did everything at once, including launching a trade war against literally every country, all at the same time.

The rest is made up as he goes along. He has instincts to bully so that plays into the shifting plans. His basic modus operandi is to gaslight and bluster but that is easy to improvise given a few pre-conceived tropes: fentanyl bad, gangs bad, immigrants bad, trade imbalances mean they must be cheating, create millions of jobs (misdirect away from plans to use robots).

So he stumbles along from day to day. It was confirmed today that 24 hours before that Rose Garden charade last week there had been no decision as to what tariffs to charge beyond a flat 10%, though they all knew it would be more than 10%.

Likewise, despite rumours, he didn't decide to do a partial pause until today.