This is just another example of how government intervention screws over regular people

Instead of letting free markets work, you've got bureaucrats on both sides playing economic hardball to score political points. Tariffs are just taxes by another name, and they always end up hurting consumers and small businesses the most. The fact that the EU is deliberately targeting Trump’s base shows how political this whole mess is—none of this helps the average farmer or factory worker. Trump's flip-flop on the tariffs just proves how unstable and arbitrary government policy can be when it's driven by ego instead of principle. If we actually cared about prosperity, we'd be pushing for free trade across the board, not this *** for-tat nonsense.