Here's the way things now work.

President Trump will slap tariffs on any country at any time for any reason.

No superpower has ever tried this before.

It's a dramatic and destabilizing way to manage America's economy and our relationships

with the other 200 or so countries on the planet, but it's become the new normal.

Tonight, how the world is being reordered by a disorderly White House.

Next.

This is Washington Week with the Atlantic.

Good evening and welcome to Washington Week.

I will say this for Donald Trump.

More stuff, all different kinds of

stuff, happens in a single week in his Washington than has ever happened during another presidency.

Trump likes attention. He likes movement. He especially likes to keep people, including sometimes

himself, guessing. Now, here are two things he doesn't like.

Trade deficits and numbers.

Not all numbers, just numbers that don't match his understanding of reality.

Here he is talking about happy numbers yesterday.

I think when you look at them, they're all something, but this one chart really says it better than anything.

If you look at this, this is great.

But this chart is pretty amazing.

Right here.

All new numbers.

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