For more from Michael Wolff, subscribe to HOWL on Substack and gain access to exclusive daily commentary, analysis, and insider knowledge. He said, “He’s as smart as any guy who’s spent 20 years listening to Lou Dobbs.” President Donald Trump makes an announcement on American nuclear innovation in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., on July 24, 2026. Evelyn Hockstein/REUTERSAll of this formed the certainties with which Donald Trump entered politics, and became popular positions for him too. He continues, however, to live on in Donald Trump, in the president’s unwavering, obsessive focus on tariffs as the necessary and magical correction to all ills.