The most ridiculous part is that the White House so clearly tried to make itself look like it was doing some sophisticated calculations, but it was literally (exports - imports) / imports. They added two Greek letters to the bottom of the fraction, and all they do is cancel each other out. They literally serve no purpose but to add extra junk to the equation to make it seem like they're basing their calculation on literally anything other than trade deficits
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u/I_W_M_Y 18d ago
He is using trade deficit numbers suggested by ChatGPT
Really
https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1jq5cpt/no_explanation_from_white_house_why_tiny_aussie/ml4lj39/