Irish Examiner view: Trump tariff policy is as baffling as Brexit

US president is fomenting panic in markets — as bad as she was, at least his UK counterpart Liz Truss was dumped within 50 days

US president Donald Trump at a reception for college football champions Ohio State University at the White House on Monday. Picture: Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP

His White House deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller, described it as the “greatest economic master strategy from an American president in history". 

An editorial in The Wall Street Journal disagreed, maintaining simply that Donald Trump was “making it up as he goes”.