Trump Brags About Growing Trade Deficit. Who Wants to Tell Him?

President Donald Trump posted a humiliating economic statistic Tuesday that revealed his kindergarten-level understanding of economics. Trump wrote on Truth Social that the U.S. trade deficit had “widened by the most in nearly 34 years,” linking an article from six months ago that said that the trade gap had increased 94.6 percent to $56.8 billion after exports tumbled in November. As of April, the trade deficit is even wider at $55.9 billion.A widening trade deficit is not a good sign for Trump...