Chain Reaction Podcast Trump’s Tariff War: Unraveling the Straw Man of Trade

Trade wars don’t make winners – they create mutual losers. That’s the stark reality emerging from our deep dive into the Trump administration’s tariff policies and their dangerous economic consequences. The White House justifications for escalating tariffs rest on a fundamentally false premise: that the United States faces systematically unfair treatment in global trade. This narrative represents a socially constructed straw man argument rather than economic reality. By examining the evidenc…