Trump embodies the politics of the heffalump
The US President is just going to park America’s weight on any issue or any prize he covets and wait for the other side to capitulate.
It’s finally happening. The news is changing at such a rate that it’s impossible to comment without the aid of a supercomputer. Remind me. Who was it, just seven days ago, bemoaning the introduction of AI into Microsoft’s Word?
CoPilot? Write me 1000 words about Donald Trump’s current thinking on tariffs…
Monday morning, I’d prepared my own 1000-word take on Trump’s tariffs, which I suggested he’d quickly revoke. Turns out I wasn’t being optimistic enough. He delayed Mexico’s tariff half an hour after I filed my column, which I then had to rewrite only for Canada to win a reprieve by early evening. An entire day wasted because the US President can’t be trusted to stick to his word. By the time I send SEND on this column, I expect he’ll have again turned everything upside down. He’ll have outlawed frisbees or declared a moose the new Governor of Canada. Or Elon Musk will have burrowed his way so deeply into government databases that he’ll have gone all Keanu on us, and we will be living in X’s new metaverse branded The MatriX.
[Update: Yes. Trump did change the narrative and now my frisbee and moose predictions don't sound so crazy compared to the “Riviera of the Middle East"…]