Trump's tariffs on the rest of the world are not about money, imports or exports, and therefore economist can make no sense of them.
The tariffs are plain and simply bullying, no more, no less.
Their only purpose is to make everybody important come begging, hat in hand, forced to recognize the "power" of the bully.
"Nice business/country you have there, too bad if anything happened to it..."
The correct response is to take your business elsewhere.