Do Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariff numbers add up?

Donald Trump’s Rose Garden “Liberation Day” moment was a set piece event for the ages – an historic day he believes will kickstart a gradual American revival. But at what immediate cost for the American people and countries globally? And was it all a deceptive con? Trump latest: Tariffs a ‘major blow to world economy’ It was, for sure, an expert-defying exercise in Trumponomics. For decades, the president said, the US “has been looted, pillaged, raped and plundered by nations near and far, both friend and foe alike”. He relished in the big reveal – giant charts in which the…