

In my opinion this is the plan. He will mess with as much government bodies as possible crippling it. Then before it hits him in the face, he steps down. What is left is a disfunctional government and no one left to blame.
It takes years to repair the damage and meanwhile everyone is shitting on the government for being disfunctional. Result is that people will say that subjects like social security don’t work and should be shut down. Who can oppose to that?
Why not add the tariff to the price? If someone in the US still wants it, they can buy it and pay the tariff.