Fake Men, Fake Math, Real Consequences: More Trump WH Lies

In a jaw-dropping example of performative governance, it’s now evident the Trump administration didn’t actually analyze global tariffs or non-tariff barriers. Instead, they slapped together a simplistic formula—trade deficit divided by imports—and dressed it up with Greek letters and economic jargon, passing it off as sound policy. They called it data-driven. They claimed it reflected complex trade dynamics.

It wasn’t.

It was a lie masquerading as analysis.

And it cost real people, real businesses, and our economy—real damage.

This Is What Happens When You Use AI as a Shield Instead of a Tool

This was AI in name only. No modeling. No data science. No domain expertise. Just a formula with the same intellectual rigor as a bad prompt spat into ChatGPT—and the same detachment from real-world impact.

Leadership claimed they were applying advanced economic logic. But what they really did was let a fake algorithm stand in for actual expertise. And that is where the true failure lies.

AI Can’t Replace Expertise—But It Can Be Used to Bypass It

AI is powerful, but it is not intelligent. It doesn’t understand context. It doesn’t understand consequences. And it cannot make ethical decisions.

Only humans with deep, field-specific knowledge can do that. But in this case, that knowledge was either absent or ignored—replaced with theater, deception, and pseudo-mathematical camouflage.

This is the textbook definition of AI misuse:

• No validation

• No oversight

• No accountability

• A blind application of numbers to justify pre-determined political actions.

A Failure of AI Governance—With Economic Collateral Damage

This is not a story about tariffs. This is a story about the collapse of responsible leadership in an AI world. When decision-makers don’t understand the tools they claim to use—or worse, weaponize their ignorance as legitimacy—we don’t just lose trust.

We lose lives. We lose jobs. We lose entire sectors of economic stability.

Let’s be clear: this stunt wasn’t just dumb. It was unethical. It’s what happens when leadership prioritizes optics over substance and uses “AI” as a smokescreen for incompetence.

The Bottom Line

AI doesn’t solve for stupidity. It amplifies it.

It doesn’t replace experts. It exposes the lack of them.

And in the hands of unqualified, unethical leaders, AI becomes a loaded gun pointed at the public good.

This isn’t AI leadership. It’s AI malpractice.

And the world is paying the price.