

Don’t forget medical expenses as well. The cost of living in the US has been on the rise for decades while wages have remained flat. The simple reality is while the US economy has continued to improve, only the rich have benefited from that and it’s approaching the point where the majority of the US population literally can not afford to live in the US. The oligarchs are going to be forced to share that wealth or the entire US economy will collapse and they won’t like what happens when a large, angry, and very well armed population decides they’re tired of living off the crumbs that fall off the plates of an incredibly tiny group of the ultra wealthy.
He’s a moron that doesn’t understand economics and ignores the advice of anybody smarter than him (which is pretty much everyone). He has an incredibly simplistic concept of how domestic markets work and doesn’t even remotely understand international trade. All he sees is the word “deficit” in “trade deficit” and thinks that means the US isn’t getting paid for its exports. It’s why he’s so hung up on the concept of tariffs (which also don’t work like he thinks they do).
The only thing Trump has ever understood is how to rip people off. If he had been born to someone poor Trump would be running the sleaziest used car lot for a thousand miles around somewhere.