[lasereye]

It's grossly misleading to compare the trade deficit number to the last 11 years (or any other time period) since the nominal GDP, i.e. not adjusted for inflation, is much larger now than 11 years ago, or even 5 years ago. This year's trade deficit may be the lowest in years, in a non-recession year, as a percentage of GDP.

[Timocrat]

All Trump’s fault. Oh wait.

[VanDeKoik]

Actually saw a Bloomberg ad 2 minutes ago on YouTube saying “we got it wrong last time...”.

Yeah. Sure...ok, Mike.

[EnglishOnly]

Awesome!

Way to GO President TRUMP!

[central_va]

Import tariffs should be sky high until the trade deficit is zero per year.

[MAGAlady]

Right. I believe it’s the lowest and has continued to drop since POTUS was elected.

[familyop]

Now that’s winning!

[Paul R.]

Correct. I’d love to see that graph.

It’d also be useful to estimate the impact of the Chinese pig epidemic. They simply have no need to buy as much feed grain from us as in the recent past.

[Svartalfiar]

I’m confused... How can it be the largest in the past 11 years, when it’s the smallest in the past two years?

Are they mixing figures and units like they do for budget ‘cuts’?

[Forgotten Amendments]

We had trade surpluses during the Great Depression. This stat is a moronic tool used by labor unions and the economically illiterate. Beware!