well no that is not actually true, america started taking in billions of dollars of owed money from china and mexico, tariffs forced China to make major purchases which benefited our farmers greatly, also ending the death tax that was forcing small farms out of business by making them sell their farms in to pay off the taxes after the farm was left to them. ( look up the death tax) Nafta was changed To the USMC - https://nypost.com/2020/09/11/joe-biden-admits-trumps-usmca-is-better-than-nafta/ - btw trade changes would not make major differences right off the bat, it takes about 10 years for them to really make an impact like Nafta crushed industry in 2000s even though it was signed into law in 90s'. prior to the pandemic , small businesses were booming - women opened 70% of those businesses, Black unemployment was at an all time historical low, and black small businesses were on an uptake. America was spinning like a top before we had to shut it all down. If there was no pandemic , Trump would have swept the 2020 election.