During a blitz of interviews with the president’s favorite love-hate partner, the media, President Donald Trump offered one particular insight into the inner workings of his tariff strategy: The country’s millions of small businesses are not a priority.

During an interview with NBC’s Meet the Press with Kristen Welker, in addition to taking credit for the “good parts” of the economy and blaming former President Joe Biden for the “bad parts” and parroting Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) by arguing that children only need “three dolls or four dolls” rather than 30, Trump set fire to the argument presented by his supporters that the fundamental objective of his tariffs is to make the nation wealthy.

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