Yesterday his position was that no pause was being considered, and his overall position is that the US doesn't need foreign trade, as every imported good is one that could have been made by a domestic worker. He also wants to finance his tax cuts with tariff income. He ALSO thinks that the issue aren't trade barriers, but trade balances.
I think you're spot on, his nigger cattle will immediately believe it and rewrite their memory to remove anything contradictory.
Trump was president during the first 12 months of covid. Few are old enough to remember this!