The White House’s official Twitter account shared a photo of a bald eagle tackling a Canadian goose. The intended message was not exactly a subtle one. But the post did illustrate how… President Trump thinks about international trade more broadly: as a win-or-lose struggle… lest they keep “ripping us off.” That logic completely unravels if you think about it for more than a minute. American consumers and businesses are being taken advantage of by Canadians who…are offering to sell us aluminum, oil, and wood while buying our farm goods, machinery, and ethanol? Americans and Canadians trade hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of goods every year in voluntary, mutually beneficial transactions. But Trump wants a fight for the sake of a fight, and the details don’t matter. More importantly, there is unlikely to be a winner because higher tariffs on both sides of the border will make both countries poorer.