Baloney.
America runs a trade deficit with China of 342 billion just last year.
That is still growing. Yes, there is a trade deficit.
A very big, very persistent one.
I’ve just proved it, but you’re too ideologically blind or willfully stupid to admit it. You go to a garage sale and buy a widget for $1. Do you now have a ‘trade deficit’ with the seller? He’s bought nothing from you.
Worse, Democrats like you make this argument to take the hook off of government policies which are the real reason for job losses.