Exactly. There’s a serious difference between what happened and simply applying tariffs, which I would compare as an analogy to an argument about who is going to pay the bill at dinner for someone’s birthday, which no matter how unreasonable and unjustified is not worth throwing away decades of close friendship or family ties over. This is an argument where one person says you’d better pay the bill at dinner or I’m going to kill you. That’s a death threat, that’s abusive, and that will not be tolerated, and the only reasonable course of action is to immediately and absolutely cut ties and file a restraining order. That is not a joke, and we will not treat it as a joke.
Exactly. There’s a serious difference between what happened and simply applying tariffs, which I would compare as an analogy to an argument about who is going to pay the bill at dinner for someone’s birthday, which no matter how unreasonable and unjustified is not worth throwing away decades of close friendship or family ties over. This is an argument where one person says you’d better pay the bill at dinner or I’m going to kill you. That’s a death threat, that’s abusive, and that will not be tolerated, and the only reasonable course of action is to immediately and absolutely cut ties and file a restraining order. That is not a joke, and we will not treat it as a joke.