They care about inflation too though. Trump is old enough to remember the high inflation 1970s well so he won't make that mistake. Kids today probably won't remember it other than an item from "ancient history" and might make the mistake, but Trump won't.
If they cared about inflation they wouldn't have instituted massive inflation causing tarrifs. Economists are saying there is a chance 70s style stagflation might come back into fashion
Any assessment of Trump’s actions that implies that he personally has a cogent strategy immediately loses credibility in my eyes. If you want to say the people around him think or feel a certain way and are influencing him based on that, fine. But he’s clearly just doing things that hit some nexus of “people around me say this will work” and “I personally, on a vibes basis, think this will be fun.”
Does he? He really wants the Feds to lower interest rates on top of everything else. He might have gotten that wish if he did absolutely nothing with economic policy and rode off the "bidenomics" he chastised for years.
There's definitely not 100% logic involved in his plans.
I would argue there are better and worse kinds of inflation. Wrecklessly printing more money is a worse kind of inflation than a new semi-optional tax, or inflation due to wages rising
The treasury department didn't print money for no reason. Stabilizing the economy during Covid is a much better reason then a pointless and stupid trade war
