What is it about the White House that turns every president into a warmonger?

a) To preside (sit before) establishes a conflict in-between those in the back vs those in the front.

b) To preside before those in the back requires the skill of a monger/merchant aka selling others on the idea to buy into backing out.

c) A house (to hide) can only exist in-between white (pure light) and black (absence of light), hence implying ones choice to hide (ignorance) from light (discernment) as a "house divided".

d) Consenting (to buy) to a monger (to sell) turns the buyers against each other aka consumerism aka trade-wars.

elected to end current

An inversion of current sending elect (life) from beginning (inception) towards end (death).

punitive tariffs

Tariff implies assessment aka ones mind seizing (consent) a price (suggestion) from another, which is punitive since it punishes ones perceiving mind within the current of all perceivable input.

FREE will of choice cannot asses (tariff) without punishing (punitive) itself...