Trump’s trade war was decades in the making
Those who know Donald Trump say it was always going to go this way with China.
The New York real estate tycoon began issuing bitter tirades against foreign countries “ripping off” the United States on trade back in the 1980s. At an expletive-laden political rally in Las Vegas in 2011, Trump hinted at a future presidential campaign and promised to tell the Chinese: “Listen you motherfuckers we’re going to tax you 25 percent!”