it would have been a betrayal of his deeper self to not do this. but at the same time again, if you re going to do this, there is a process to it. if you re going to make a move that is going to offend your economic allies, your military allies, there is a process. you get people on the phone. you have mattis make calls, you have tillerson make calls. you have cohn make calls and you prepare it. you just don t have reports that did is raging around the white house late at night because hope hicks is leaving, and then suddenly blurts out i m going to start a trade war. oh, my god. first in response to jon, yes, you re completely right of course but there are many precedents for candidates being one thing as candidates and doing a different thing in office. perhaps tariffs are not the way to solve it. buzz he s fulfilling a campaign