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Art Carden puts “Tariff Man” to the tune of Billy Joel’s classic hit “Piano Man [2].” Here are Art’s opening lyrics:
It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday
Your iPhone is glowing and bright
There’s an old man up Washington
Watching cable news into the night.
He says, “Let’s make America Great Again!
By slapping a tariff on steel—
And aluminum bars and on Japanese cars
Now, let’s make those foreigners kneel!”
By the way, after Trump’s “Tariff Man” tweet [3] from earlier today, no one should any longer suffer any delusions that Trump understands trade and that his goal in calling for U.S. tariffs is anything other than to decrease U.S. imports as much as possible and to increase American exports as much as possible. He’s a cartoonish mercantilist [4].