>Trades wars in general are costly (and in this case unnecessary). Only thing its going to accomplish is tanking the stock market and costing the USA citizens a whole lot of money. Everything comes from China now -- even that tag on your stuff that says "made in America" was probably made in China lol. Spending less money on the war machine and military would sure go a long ways though. First thing I would do is cut our military defense budget in half -- which would still put us waaay ahead of everyone else.

The phrase "trade war" is hyperbole.
If I reduce my prices to put a competitor out of business - that's competition, not a trade war.
China has been cleaning our clocks by not allowing US products into their markets.
Trump is trying to get things on an even basis.
What's wrong with that?
But there's something else going on here.
During the 1970's Chrysler was in serious financial trouble and the US government bailed them out because it was militarily necessary to have that kind of manufacturing capacity.
By allowing Apple to move over a million manufacturing jobs to China we've put this country at risk militarily.

I agree about the military spending.
It's whacky.
Build bridges and roads, not aircraft carriers.