Yesterday I bought a coffee for $3.

Now I have a $3 trade deficit with the coffee shop so I am imposing a 100% trade tariff on them.

Today my coffee cost me $6.

Art of the Deal!

Seems Trump might just have realised that's how things work, so he's changed his mind, again.

If Donald Trump was secretly still an unreconstructed Clinton Democrat, out to expose the worst fantasies of the Republican Party's extreme right to light and air, what would he do differently from now? Anything?

Maybe he really is playing 4-D chess, but the chessboard is under the table, with a checkerboard on a red-and-white-checkered tablecloth on top for show. And the pawns don't know they'll be sacrificed for the queen.

Nor, apparently, do the bishops.

Trump’s logic is like the Irish comedian Dave Alan said describing religion.

“Like trying to find a black cat, in a dark room, that is not there!”

But hey, he runs 500 successful companies don'tcha know.