These people are in charge of the world’s largest economy? The answer is either reduced by half to 72.5%, or reduced by two-thirds to 50%. And I did this in my head on the fly without a business degree from Wharton.

But they where doing so well… Wait a second, tariffs didn’t hurt China’s exports? Oh nooooes

As a side note, I have questions about the math here.

“We’re going to have the biggest tariff reductions you’ve ever seen, folks. The biggest, we’re going to halve them, and then we’re going to keep going, until there aren’t any tariffs. People said it couldn’t be done, they say no one has ever brought tariffs so far down before. And China… China is a big country, very big country, but you know, they don’t make tariffs like we do here in America. All those people and they can’t produce a single tariff, but we said, we can do that, we can produce tariffs like never before. And we can take them away too. All these people, they say why is he doing so many tariffs, we’ve never seen so many tariffs in all of history. And I make it simple for them, I say, all you have to do, is you get out a piece of paper. A little piece of paper. And you write it on ‘Trump is the greatest.’ That’s all it takes, folks. One little paragraph and the tariffs go away. But the Chinese, you know, they don’t want to admit it. So we came to them and we said, we’ll keep reducing the tariffs until you listen. And believe me, they’ve been listening very hard. For any of the hundreds of voice mails I left them. Every hour, I send off another. The most amazing voice mails you’ve ever heard. But we’re going to get the tariffs down. Or up, whichever one it takes.”

This is a joke, but I mean, is it impossible he’d say something like this.