Is there really no one who can make Trump understand tariffs?????

[TNNurse]

[Arkansas Granny]

1. He understands. He's betting that he can lie convincingly to his base.

He knows they won't believe anyone else.

[LonePirate]

2. He's enacting a political version of Stockholm Syndrome with them.

[bitterross]

3. He understands. He's lying to his base.

He knows better. I know he's not the stable genius he claims to be but I feel certain he knows how tariffs work.

It's just another lie like "Mexico will pay for it." The same sort of thing but it's "China will pay for it."

His base doesn't do math, or think. They just believe him.

[mopinko]

4. no. his brain is now completely rigid. he cant take in new info.

whatever the dx, he cannot think any more, only spout his calcified "opinions"
that's why there was never gonna be a pivot.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. I'm sure many people have tried. But, as with many other issues,

he just doesn't want to understand because he's already decided how they work which totally isn't how they work. But what he thinks serves his purposes, so nobody in the world will be able to persuade him otherwise.

[Freethinker65]

6. He is having too much fun manipulating the media and markets to care.

Proving he has "power" to boost his ego is all that matters....and some friends and family are probably making $$$$$$ from it all from which he will receive kickbacks.

[JI7]

7. he doesn't have any interest in actually learning anything . he wants to believe he knows it all

and even when he is proven wrong he will blame others.

he is just a piece of shit.

[anarch]

8. no; he is smarter than everyone else and knows better than they do

and he won't listen to anyone, really...you can't "make him understand" anything; you have to subtly manipulate him through flattery and misdirection until he thinks whatever you are trying to get him to do is his own idea.