President (The Bully*) Tump is frustrated by the restrictions put on him as president (for just one example, Trump twice ordered the post office to double the charge for delivering Amazon packages. This would break a contract and the post office couldn't comply.), but he has found two things he can do in an autocratic manner as president; pardons and invoking national security on trade. These two items are what Trump expected the presidency to be. I think that the pardons are reasonably innocent, so far. Trade, however, is more serious.
So why is Trump putting tariffs on our friends, claiming they are for national security, especially Canada, probably our closest ally, with whom we even have a positive trade balance? Remember I have given him the nickname of The Bully. I think the reason he is doing the tariff thing is to bully our friends. That is his nature. Trump doesn't seem to have friends. He has frenemies.** If you want to be his friend, be prepared to undergo heavy criticism and humiliation.
In general, as has been noted by many, Trump prefers dictators to democrats. Vladimir Putin seems to be his closest friend and everyone wonders why he is so friendly with Putin. I have wondered if it is because he much wants to get a Trump Tower in Moscow***.
* Below I have listed a number of items on this blog referring to Trump's nature as a bully.
http://stopcontinentaldrift.blogspot.com/2018/03/how-many-times-can-you-bully-friend.html
http://stopcontinentaldrift.blogspot.com/2017/12/bully-pulpit.html
http://stopcontinentaldrift.blogspot.com/2017/10/melania-trump-onbullying.html
http://stopcontinentaldrift.blogspot.com/2017/09/trumps-humor.html
http://stopcontinentaldrift.blogspot.com/2017/05/thats-gratitude-for-you.html
http://stopcontinentaldrift.blogspot.com/2017/02/donald-trumps-bullying-negotiation.html
http://stopcontinentaldrift.blogspot.com/2017/02/american-fabricated-steel.html
http://stopcontinentaldrift.blogspot.com/2017/01/bully-in-china-shop.html
http://stopcontinentaldrift.blogspot.com/2017/01/president-trumps-first-week.html
** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frenemy (I don't recall having heard this word before until just recently when Ken Aruletta used it as the title of a book, but Wikipedia says the word has been around since 1953.)
*** http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/388075-cohen-worked-on-moscow-trump-tower-deal-for-longer-than-he-told
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