The further President Donald Trump's term has progressed, the more obvious it seems that he has lost his grip on reality. The latest sign of this was his demand that Europe should retroactively pay compensation to the USA for not being able to produce goods competitive on the European market (example).
It is clear that European countries will not agree to such extortion. Nor will they stop exporting goods to the U.S. if Americans wish to buy them.
In this respect, it will be particularly interesting to see how much Trump manages to reduce the sales of European products in the United States. One would assume that price increases of even tens of percentage points—caused by tariffs—would significantly reduce their sales. However, it is also true that, in a similar way, the sale of American products to Europe will become more difficult due to countertariffs.
Lately, I have begun to suspect that Trump does not genuinely understand this. And therefore, he does not realize he should stop before irreversible damage is done to European-American trade relations.
And that is why I believe he has lost his grip on reality.
I think Mr. Trump is a narcist of a worst kind. He has surrounded himself with the yes-man. For me it seems he is not knowing what he is doing, maybe I'm just badly informed.
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