With a number of other Trump administration stories rightfully dominating the headlines at the moment—the Mueller report! William Barr! Deutsche Bank! Calls to charge asylum seekers a fee to get into the country!—you might have forgotten that the U.S. is currently involved in a trade war with China that kicked off more than a year ago now, and which hasn’t gone super well for America. But rest assured, Donald Trump has everything under control, and by under control, we mean he appears poised to extend the self-defeating battle indefinitely.

Just over a week after National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow told CNBC that he was “cautiously optimistic” about striking a deal to end the dispute (on account of the damage the trade war has inflicted on China’s economy), Trump threatened to ramp up tariffs on Sunday if he doesn’t get what he wants, claiming, falsely, that someone other than American importers has been financing the duties. “For 10 months, China has been paying Tariffs to the USA of 25% on 50 Billion Dollars of High Tech, and 10% on 200 Billion Dollars of other goods,” Trump wrote on Twitter Sunday, the first in a series of tweets underscoring that he has no idea how tariffs work. “These payments are partially responsible for our great economic results. The 10% will go up to 25% on Friday. 325 Billions Dollars of additional goods sent to us by China remain untaxed, but will be shortly, at a rate of 25%. The Tariffs paid to the USA have had little impact on product cost, mostly borne by China. The Trade Deal with China continues, but too slowly, as they attempt to renegotiate. No!”

After getting positive feedback on the threat from people like Laura Ingraham, and pausing to rant about how Robert Mueller shouldn’t be allowed to testify before Congress, he continued:

For its part, China reportedly had no idea what to make of Trump’s tweets: