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People said the same when COVID started. The sides were reversed back then.

Which sides are you referring to? The current US president was also president when COVID started.

and who tried instituting tariff regime then too (only back then there were still a few grown up in the room back then to put limits in place)

It's not "people" who are saying this, it's the official position of the Secretary of Commerce. "The president needs to reset global trade."