Why does Trump keep saying countries will pay the tariffs and not consumers?

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Found these comments on a Republicans for America Facebook page. Just demonstrates the fact that these MAGAs just follow their leader Trump and don’t have any understanding of how the global economy works. Having a trade deficit doesn’t mean other countries are ‘unfairly taking advantage of the USA’ it just means the USA is importing more from them than they are importing from the US. You cannot force every other country to consume the same amount from you that you consume from them, that’s utterly ridiculous and illogical. Having trade surplus and trade deficits are a natural state of the global economy because every country specializes in different things. These MAGAs just clearly don’t have any kind of understanding of basic economic principles. Which country in the world has zero trade deficits with every other country? Every country is taking advantage of other countries’ specialties, that’s how global trade works. If you want to call a trade deficit ‘unfair’ well then every country in the world is unfair to every other country.

I actually couldn’t believe some of these comments. “Stock prices aren’t an indicator of the economy” “I would rather be poor and live in a county that makes things” I can feel my IQ dropping after reading these smh