Where I was right and wrong about Trump
13 min readDec 7, 2020
Hi. I’m Lone Candle.
Before Trump entered office, I made two videos that both involved speculations, predictions, hopes, and fears about what may happen in a Trump presidency. Now, I want to see how wrong and right I was.
The costly China trade war
About the trade war with China, I said China was unlikely to give in in any major way. Why? Because China can simply outlast a term-limited U.S. president, because Trump’s plan was to go it alone rather than to create a more powerful world-wide coalition, and because…