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When it arrives, in simple letters against a black backdrop, it doesn’t so much introduce the film as cleave it in half.

It released a document explaining that the administration used a calculation that took the U.S. trade deficit with individual trading partners, divided it by U.S. imports from that partner, and then divided the total in half.

It then divided that total in half.

Instead, the administration took the U.S. trade deficit with individual trading partners, divided it by U.S. imports from that partner, and then divided the total in half.

He has claimed that the policy is merely a response to heavy tariffs that other countries already impose on American goods, but fact-checkers have pointed out those so-called tariffs by other countries are actually just the Trump administration dividing the country's trade deficit by its U.S.-bound exports in half.