The annoying thing about the tariffs is that they aren’t even well intentioned but misguided, it’s just stupidity.

A trade deficit means you buy more from a country than they buy from you which is normal. Buying more oil from Nigeria than they buy Teslas isn’t a “problem” requiring putting a high sales tax on imported Nigerian oil

Americans buy less Nigerian oil and the deficit reduces. Are you better off or worse off?

Zero sum thinking taken to a stupid extreme.