This isn’t even primitive. Earliest man understood the benefit of trade: there is evidence of trading activity dating from roughly 300,000 years ago. Only this guy thinks that anytime you buy something from somebody you’re losing.

Acyn

@acyn · Twitter · 2026-09-04 18:57 UTC

Trump: We could do tremendous good for ourselves by just not trading with countries.. We lose with Mexico $195 billion a year. They have nothing that we have to have, I mean. Hot tamales, tomatoes, a couple of things