Don't think about it

It's just more ignorant blather. At least Baier pointed it out.

President Trump said Friday that he thinks that China would have suffered more harm than the U.S. in a prolonged trade war because America “has spirit again” after electing him to a second term.

“If I didn’t do that deal with China, I think China would have broken apart. We are not going to break,” Trump said during an appearance on Fox News’s “Special Report.”

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Media outlets have also reported that Trump backed off his initial sweeping tariff agenda because the impact hit hardest on his supporters.

“The key argument was that this was beginning to hurt Trump’s supporters — Trump’s people,” a person briefed on the talks told The Washington Post.

  The Hill