I Love the Smell of Tariffs in the Morning
Mark Knight
13 September 2025
In Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam War movie Apocalypse Now (1979), a US Army officer kneels amid the chaos and destruction around him and delivers the now-iconic line: 'I love the smell of napalm in the morning.' Mark Knight sees comparisons with President Trump's current approach to trade tariffs.
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