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... The big picture: Never mind that the U.S. boasts the world's largest economy, most powerful military, record household wealth, and historically low unemployment.

- - - Trump has been remarkably consistent in casting America as a global pushover, including in a 1988 interview with Oprah that resurfaced in the wake of this week's tariff announcement.

- - - "For decades, our country has been looted, pillaged, raped, and plundered by nations near and far, both friend and foe alike," Trump declared in his "Liberation Day" speech Wednesday. "But now it's our turn to prosper."

Zoom in: From uninhabited islands to impoverished enclaves, no country is too small, too irrelevant, or too loyal to escape the wrath of a president who believes America has been cheated for decades. ...

@#3 ... In the minds of Trump and his supporters ...

Pres Trump and his supporters --- the perennial claimants of being the victim.

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... Between the lines: Victimhood " real and imagined " has always been central to Trump's political identity.

- - - His 2024 presidential campaign was fueled by grievances, beginning with the lie that the 2020 election was rigged against him.

- - - He's cast every investigation and indictment as a "witch hunt," from Russia to Signalgate.

- - - He survived an assassination attempt, and used it to turbocharge the persecution narrative that underpins his brand.

"They always said nobody got treated worse than Lincoln," Trump publicly mused in 2020 and many times after.

- - - "I believe I am treated worse." ...

@#6 ... He's an idiot who has zero idea on how economics works. ...

Yeah, that seems to be the case.

A businessperson who has had to declare bankruptcy six times.

A businessperson who seems to be great at selling his name, but poor at running a business.

I have concerns.