Does he not know the cost of labor is higher here?
That's why you tank the dollar and destroy the social safety net.
What theyre trying to do is turn America into what China was 20-30 years ago, but probably even cheaper since they plan on using migrants and black people as prison labor. Remember, the thirteenth ammendment is what keeps slavery alive in America. You can use "criminals" as slaves.
It's a multi stage plan:
1. Round up as many people as you can and send them to prisons and camps.
2. Gut the social safety net so people sell off their stock and go through their savings.
3. Hurt the dollar so much with tariffs that other countries like Japan and china start selling off their reserve supply of dollars. Japan alone holds 3 TRILLION in USD.
4. With weaker currency and cheaper labor, America would be looked at as a place for cheap labor similar to how China is seen. No labor rights, no unions, no social safety net= a supply of cheap, easily exploited workers and literal slave labor.
5. By buying up the companies that were weakened from the recession/depression the tariffs will cause, the wealthy will quadruple their money when investment comes back to America. The tax cuts which he wants to pass for the rich will cost 4 Trillion. He's desperate to find the money. So what the goal is here is this: the economy will be destroyed but the rich will quadruple down on their power afterwards and will be modern day kings. The money they get from the tax cuts will allow them to spend even more on owning America's private industries.
This is a long range plan that he's trying to speed run in the event that he loses the midterms and judges stay on code and start blocking everything he tries to do including using armed peace officers to protect staff.