Trump is in denial about the effect of his tariffs

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“We don’t even have tariffs,” President Trump told the Wall Street Journal this week, attempting to deflect the blame that Wall Street is putting upon his administration for a tumbling stock market. “I mean, other than some tariffs on steel — which is actually small.”

He later added, “Where do we have tariffs? We don’t have tariffs anywhere.”

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