Ron Vara: The Fake Economist Behind Trump’s Tariff Disaster

Peter Navarro invented a fake expert—Ron Vara—to push Trump’s tariffs. Yes, really. As a joke to egg Trump on, this fictional character helped lead the U.S. into economic ruin—under your watch. Trump knew the character was fake. He used the advice anyway—because it was the only thing that agreed with him. And you knew. And you said nothing. Now? $6 trillion in market losses in just two days. The S&P 500 crashed 11%. Retirement savings obliterated. Jobs lost. Allies alienated. Trump’s own signature trade, USMCA, policy is being torn up before our eyes. This isn’t funny. This is sabotage. This is economic suicide. No serious economist supports Trump’s tariffs. No one calls a trade deficit a “tariff”—except Trump and his blind followers. It’s just another lie, like the “millions of jobs” he says are “coming back” or the factories he claims will be built overnight instead of over years. These aren’t mistakes. They’re deliberate cons—meant to rile up his base and punish his enemies, no matter who gets hurt. Trump turned the presidency into a reality show. You go along with it because you’re afraid of him. And now the country is bleeding—and you’re still pretending this is good for America? Fix this. Or be remembered as one of the cowards who let a fraud—and his imaginary friend—run the nation into the ground.