Trump wants Americans to sacrifice in ways he never would

There is a familiar formula for a president to spin an economic downturn: acknowledge the public’s pain, explain that the administration is working hard to make things better, and reassure people with some variation of “we as Americans will get through this together.” Presidents keep applying the formula even though it rarely works, perhaps because nobody has come up with anything more convincing.As President Donald Trump’s radical and chaotic tariff policy derails the economy and throws businesses into limbo, he and his administration have propagated their version of this familiar argument. A president whose entire life is a tribute to ..