I don’t know if this is true, but people were saying that the tariff policy was what LLMs suggest when asked about how to reduce a trade deficit. So perhaps we are already being governed by ChatGPT.

Please explain how Trump managed to implement this ban with a democrat controlled senate and Joe Biden as president.

I don’t think there was any grand Machiavellian scheme. Trump just capitalized on historic democrat incompetence to make himself look good.