Rachel Maddow: Trump crashed the world's markets based on the advice of a fictional economist.

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8. Wow.

I hope someone in the press gets around to asking rump about this. I'd ask him if he ever met Ron Vara. He'd have to make up an incredible lie about it, or admit that he never met him. Our whole world is being destroyed by one man incapable of governing. He apparently just takes others' advice without any real understanding of what he is doing, or he just doesn't care. Making it up as he goes.

He's going to have to walk back the tariffs, and it will be interesting to see what lie he tells. Will he follow Reagan's experience of the effectiveness of tariffs not lasting? Or will he figure he can grift off other countries' desperation to avoid economic ruin by putting money in his pocket? He's going to have to do something, or "Trump's Depression" will become a real thing.

It's very clear that this felon attracts only the worst people, and he's probably got no way out of this. He based this economic policy on someone's advice who doesn't exist? Right about now they are exploring the idea of bringing in a flesh and blood imposter to play the part of "learned economist." Cue the next horrible distracting event to try to make us look away from this. He thinks we're all stupid. Problem is, we're not.

This is truly disgusting.