The president’s distaste for trade deficits with any country is not news, but that last sentence is striking — Trump is claiming that trade deficits are at the root of the national debt.
That is a creative explanation — and an incorrect one.
Vox just made a humiliating economic error in front of its readers.
> seriously this is what you hit him on?
Might I suggest this is ideological in nature. Global types don’t want America balancing its net imports/exports. They want a net flow of wealth out of the country.