Trump's big, but not so beautiful, tariff wall

The most destructive economic own goal, akin to Brexit but on a global scale

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2025-04-08 Ian Bremmer on Trump tariff

Shopkeepers sit among watermelons at a wholesale market in Pathumthani province, Thailand, April 7, following a tariff rate of 37% imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump on the country. © Reuters

Ian Bremmer is president of Eurasia Group and GZERO Media, and author of "The Power of Crisis: How Three Threats -- and Our Response -- Will Change the World."

Globalization helped make the United States the most prosperous nation in history. But lots of Americans didn't feel that way, and accordingly voted to "liberate" themselves from it last November. Donald Trump is now delivering for them -- and the consequences will reverberate across the globe.

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