The thing that gets me is it is not true. "He chickened out on the tariffs!" Maybe the super high ones, but did we suddenly all forget there is a new 10% tariff on all imports that didnt exist before his whole plan? Apparently we did, including Wall Street since they are acting like things are back to what they were before. And of course, also ignoring the new trade deals and foreign investment that resulted in extremely strong economic numbers even as the stock market was setting its hair on fire for seemingly no other reason than "Why are you touching things?!"
The thing that gets me is it is not true. "He chickened out on the tariffs!" Maybe the super high ones, but did we suddenly all forget there is a new 10% tariff on all imports that didnt exist before his whole plan? Apparently we did, including Wall Street since they are acting like things are back to what they were before. And of course, also ignoring the new trade deals and foreign investment that resulted in extremely strong economic numbers even as the stock market was setting its hair on fire for seemingly no other reason than "Why are you touching things?!"
And he only put a temporary hold on them while deals were negotiated.
which is apparently the same thing as chickening out I guess.