So they determined tariff levels by dividing the US deficit with a country by the total amount of goods imported from there. No other logic behind the numbers
You cannot make this up. Literal idiocracy and he does not care one bit about the economic damage it will cause.
Hes completely speculation pilled. He thinks it's a problem that America imports more than it exports.
He doesn't care that the imports are regular people wanting products they can afford. Wants America to export more than it imports and that is an arrangement that works for people like him who want to own the means of production.
He believes the economy isn't propped up by consumer demand, but by stock prices. If he tanks the market only the richest companies(which he will expand his stake in) will survive and then in his mind if america becomes an exporter making goods for countries that have lower income inequality and an appetite for affordable products, companies like Amazon will reap the benefits and so will he by extension because the shares will go up in value.
His supporters are alligned with him because they genuinely believe that he is going to make it so employers can hook them up with manufacturing jobs that will pay well. They are seeing an attempt to live up to his promises and that fact alone is enough to give them faith in him. They don't understand that a company wouldn't hire them for good wages because that costs them money. Labor is a cost and the goal of a company is to cut costs and make profit for its shareholders.
He said he'd get rid of the immigrants and he's doing it by basically ignoring the constitution and turning ice into a gestapo. He said he's going to bring manufacturing back but he's doing it by annihilating the buying power of the middle and working class.