When you're hired to do the optics and the optics are monstrously bad.

Lower and middle class consumers spend a far higher percentage of disposable income buying basic items. This isn't hard to understand, but our USTR doesn't seem to.

Excuse me? https://www.comicsands.com/trump-vance-booed-olympic-ceremony?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

They knew this policy was so unconstitutional that they kept the “legal memo” authorizing this practice hidden, wouldn't let physical copies of it circulate, and a whistleblower had to alert Congress about its very existence.