How long will it take for the USA to effectively remove it self from the global economy that many US politicians especially Donald Trump seems to dislike? Will this isolationist policy last after his presidency or will it be quickly dropped?
Last Updated: 02.07.2025 14:34
I don’t think Trump and the Republicans want to remove the USA from the global economy.
And thus he thinks international trade should only benefit the US and tries to distort the rules to that end. Of course the end result of that is other countries not wanting to trade with the US. But that was not his objective.
The problem is that Trump is a shitty businessman, a wily salesman but in no way an effective manager. The guy bankrupted casinos and the list of his grifts before and after becoming president is quite long.
And one of the way in which he’s a poor businessman is that he doesn’t understand the value of mutually profitable deals, which by the way is the basis of trade. If you buy something you want to feel that you’ve gotten your money’s worth and when you sell that you’ve made a reasonable profit. But not Trump. He believes that if he doesn’t screw the other side then he must have been screwed.