“The notion that taxing Lesotho gemstones is necessary for the U.S. to add steel jobs in Ohio is so absurd that I briefly lost consciousness in the middle of writing this sentence.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/04/tariffs-trump-outcomes-incompatible/682286/?gift=gfZm1tfSiXkcDbEcUH-moKiYluBQDHkwVukxav480nc

This, dear NYT, is how you cover madness. I like how Thompson listed 3 incompatible post-hoc justifications from Team Trump.