Let's see, you've alienated all your international customers, you've made your products more expensive globally by forcing countries to implement reciprocal tariffs, and domestically you have fired #### loads of people who add value throguh science to private industry. Those scientists are leaving, meaning they'll bring their knowledge and talents to other countries, who will now compete in areas you used to be masters at.
And the fired people who aren't moving? Well they aren't buying stuff, because they don't have jobs. Recessions don't typically lead to hiring sprees. And as their food costs increases due to deporting all the labour used to produce it, and animals for food become less viable because you decimated disease monitoring and pollution control, these citizens will become ever more desperate. Crime will skyrocket, and any remaining small businesses will close because they can't afford the damage and theft. Large retail will close and abandon any neighbourhoods where costs do not justify staying, hollowing out entire suburbs.
He can pretend an alternate path exists here, but reality and history are going to confirm all of this. Not that he cares, he'll be so deep in dementia land by then he'll think he's living in Disneyland.
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