The tariffs are also a way to force countries to buy American debt via treasury bonds. No thanks. You chose to hollow out your own industrial companies become a consumer and now bleating about the debt. The debt is 151 trillion. Not 37 trillion. You cannot have it both ways. The Griffen report highlighted this dilemma. Selling USD and being the global currency can work in the short term. But US adopted this as a long term policy. Something breaks. And now here we are. On a train hurtling towards Recksville.