We need cheap stuff, and lots of it

resident Trump downplayed

Ppotentially empty

store shelves at his recent cabinet meeting.

He said of goods from China that might go missing, “Much of it we don’t need.”

Then he elaborated the point: “Well, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls, you know? And maybe the two dolls will cost a couple of bucks more than they would normally.”

At that moment, Trump surely made history. He…