Some things are so good they just have to be shared! To wit:
And here I was worried that he was going to start a shooting war to distract us from his legal troubles.
Just a couple of details: The 25% tariff is to be imposed on raw steel products, not on advanced/specialty steel. The country that exports the most raw steel products to the US? Canada. Not China; Canada.
But it gets better. The US runs a trade surplus with Canada on steel imports/exports. Yes, a surplus. So if we slap a 25% tariff on Canadian steel products, and they retaliate (and they will - trust me), the effect is that the overall market for US raw steel producers shrinks.
But there's an added benefit here. Slapping a tariff on Canadian steel, simply because you think there's an unfair trade deficit (notwithstanding that there is not) is a NAFTA violation. So not only does Trump get to impose a tariff that won't do what he thinks (and I use the word advisedly) it will do, he also gets to undercut a binding treaty.
You get what you vote for, folks. (Assuming you didn't have the sense to vote for the other person.)