>>22474237Pic related.
What I expect is that this was deliberate. Trump 1, you may recall, also had a thing about trade deficits. I suspect that between then and now, someone suggested that the average American finds the concept of "trade deficits" confusing, complex, and therefore unimportant. The media, however, has been doing very helpful legwork on what tariffs are, and so if you just rebrand it all tariffs, John Q. Public gets the message you want him to get without getting bogged down in the economic minutiae.
