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'Tariff Man' Trump set to become $US100 Billion Man as trade gap soars
President Donald Trump, the self-proclaimed Tariff Man, is set to become the $US100 Billion Man.
If the trends of the past year and economists' expectations hold true, trade data to be released on Wednesday will show the US's deficit in goods and services with the world topped $US600 billion ($847 billion) in 2018.
That means Trump's presidency will have seen the US trade shortfall -- the main metric by which he judges countries to be winning or losing -- grow by more than $US100 billion.
Put another way, by Trump's own benchmark the US is 20 per cent worse off than it was at the end of 2016, just before he took office.