Why would Trumpy start a trade war with our closest friends, allies, and neighbors?

[FSogol]

Answer: The concept of "friend" is alien to Trumpy who has never had a friend.

[C_U_L8R]

1. That's what bullies do.

You wouldn't expect the orange coward to confront a true adversary. He's a total chickenshit.

[Jit423]

5. THUMP! BANG! It's hurting!

He will never challenge a person, group, or country that will fight back hard. He thinks Canada and Mexico.

A few nations are 'PRE-EMPTIVELY' placing tariffs on US goods.

[GoCubsGo]

6. And, he's the most stupid person in existence.

He'll say or do something stupid, and every time he gets called out on it, he just doubles down on his stupidity, thinking it will prove him right.

[C_U_L8R]

9. There is none more stupid.

[Beachnutt]

2. To push trade to russia

creating big distractions while helping putin.

[Orrex]

7. 100% this

Everything he's doing will serve to weaken and destabilize and diminish and isolate the US, all to the benefit of Putin.

[Arazi]

13. Yup. Putin's puppet is dismantling our global alliances

This isolates the US.

It also forces emerging economies to turn to China and Russia

[Walleye]

3. Also, because Like all good cowards, he's afraid of our strong enemies. He only wants to pick on our friends

[Think. Again.]

4. They want the entire continent for their new "Tech-Nations".

[Kid Berwyn]

8. Economic turmoil breeds unrest to bring martial law.

Toilet paper at $50 per 6-pack does more than make a Koch richer.

It makes Steve Bannon happy.

[Trueblue Texan]

10. Nothing the man does makes sense if you expect his actions to benefit our nation in any way...

But when you realize his goal is to destroy the nation, everything he does makes sense.

[NoCashAvailable]

14. Gonna die a billionaire

Nothing to loose

[FSogol]

15. Welcome to DU. n/t

[Johonny]

11. America's strength is it borders only allies

It doesn't need to worry about home defense. Putin meanwhile is constantly worried about enemies all around him. It is advantageous to our enemies that we have enemies at our borders. Hence Trumps attempt to do just that. We can't police the world if we are too worried about armies on our borders . . .

Trump is a useful idiot for our enemies.

[Irish_Dem]

12. Trump wants control of North and Central America.

He wants to push trade to Russia.

He wants to damage western alliances to help China and Russia.

Trump is aligning himself with the billionaire and fascist bloc.

[Oopsie Daisy]

16. It's at the behest of Putin. It helps to destabilize the world by creating fear, confusion, distrust *

* which would make NATO ineffective and possibly force it to collapse (or become much weaker).

[2naSalit]

17. On top of all mentioned above...

This is a means to declaring some emergency or other to suspend the Constitution.