So stick with me on this one.

The President starts a trade war with China by enacting tariffs on lots of goods. Americans pay those tariffs because prices are hiked to cover them. You pay more at Walmart.

China retaliates by enacting tariffs on US agricultural goods. Like soybeans. So our soybeans become prohibitively expensive for Chinese companies to buy.

So Chinese soy bean seekers look to buy elsewhere. One country that has a lot of soybeans is Brazil. So China buys lots of Brazilian soybeans.

Meanwhile, back here in the US, our President is paying soybean farmers subsidies to make up for their lost sales to China.

He does that with deficit money, much of it financed by the purchase of our debt by China.

In the meantime, Brazilian soybean farmers see a chance to increase their markets but need more land to plant.

So they set fire to the Amazon rain forest to clear more land to plant.

Summary: By starting a trade war, this President has accomplished the following:

1. He has destroyed a vital market for family farms in this country.

2. To ameliorate that he is paying farmers with money financed by China. Instead of just letting them sell their crop to China.

3. Meanwhile, Brazilian farmers are destroying large parts of the most important ecological region on our planet so they can take the Chinese market in soybeans away from our farmers.

4. Once that happens, our farmers will never get that market back. So they will lose their farms or we are going to have to subsidize them forever.

Oh, and the planet is slowly choking to death as the rain forest is raped to provide a replacement for soybeans our farmers were already providing.

Our stable genius in the Oval Office did this and all on his own.

Winning.