The Tariffs are here. Remind those who need to know that Donald Trump is a clueless hack.

The White House owns this. I repeat: The White House owns this.

Doesn’t know how tariffs work. Probably doesn’t care, either.

Well, odds are things are about to turn very expensive.

If you missed the news, the White House has implemented steep tariffs on goods from Canada, Mexico and China. In return, Canada, Mexico and China are imposing steep tariffs upon the United States.

Which (duh) of course they are. Why wouldn’t they?

Here’s Justin Trudeau from this morning …

While skyrocketing prices suck, this is an opportunity to remind people that not only is Donald Trump a destructive force for evil, he’s also a moron in most senses of the word. And I think the Democrats have done a brutally bad job articulating this fact. Like, there tends to be an expiration date on Donald Trump misdeeds, and after a year we’re only allowed to focus on recent maladies. But … why? Why—again, in this time of economic chaos—can’t we recall that Donald Trump lost far more money than he made. Why can’t we recall that Donald Trump filed for bankruptcy myriad times? Why can’t we recall that Donald Trump didn’t even write his business book, “The Art of the Deal”? Why can’t we recall that Donald Trump’s business acumen was primarily a made-for-TV image created by “The Apprentice”?

Along those lines, as Donald Trump goes on this anti-DEI crusade, why can’t we remind people that he rose to political prominence by creating a 100-percent phony story about Barack Obama actually being a Kenyan-born Muslim? That he called for the death penalty for the Central Park 5—even after they were declared innocent? That he banned Blacks from his Queens properties? That he dropped the N-word?

When Donald Trump talks about fairness in sports, why don’t we bring up that he lied about being a top Major League Baseball prospect? When Donald Trump talks about remodeling the military, why don’t we bring up his bone spurs, his ridiculing of POWs, his refusal to honor lost soldiers because of … rain?

We, as an opposition, keep doing this. Over and over. We fail to go back in time with Trump, because we’re overly distracted by newer gunk. But it is, I swear, an enormous mistake.

People have short memories.

People forget stuff.

So, as the economy crumbles, let’s remind them: This guy—the one who loves tariffs—probably doesn’t know what, precisely, a tariff is.

He’s a fool who doesn’t know he’s a fool.

He’s a hack.

PS: From the Wall Street Journal …