Tornado Alley (PROG)

[blackhawks]

But every Trump promise is a lie wrapped in a deception with a rotten nougat center, sold to the credulous with the confidence of a Hollywood predator whispering to a starlet that this one little audition will change her life.

And just like the casting couch mythos of power and exploitation, Trump’s tariff war was always a con, a tale as old as time, shouted by a fool to an audience of cattle, signifying nothing. All his swaggering nonsense about “easy wins” and “trillions in revenue” from tariffs was economic alchemy at its worst—star charts, crystal balls, and trade-war séances masquerading as policy.

The MAGA faithful bought it wholesale. “He’s a businessman!” they cried, as if he were Carnegie and not a six-time bankrupt steak-and-casino grifter. But what did Trump do? He cracked open America's core economic strength—our credibility, our stability, our currency—and torched it for the cheap dopamine hit of a cable-news chyron reading TRUMP SLAMS CHINA AGAIN.