He's crashing the economy on purpose. Anyone who was paying attention knew this was his intention many months before the election. It's very clearly stated in project 2025, and both Trump and Musk made comments in public suggesting that was the plan.
Recessions are great for billionaires. They'll buy everything while we scramble to survive.
People not in the US will naturally focus on foreign policy. But people in the US spending all that focus on tariffs when their country has secret police taking people from the streets is like you go to an emergency with a knife on your chest and blood coming out like a fountain, and the doctor is all about "hey, I have some bad news; you have cancer, it can kill you, we must treat it as soon as possible..."