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“I am sure that dialogue and respect are the best route toward understanding among our people and our nations, and that this misunderstanding will be clarified.”

Weiss said misunderstanding and misinformation is fueling backlash against the animals.

They’re based on a fundamental misunderstanding of who pays the tariffs — they’re not paid by exporters or foreign regimes, as Trump maintains, but by consumers, making them a tax on Americans.

As a group, they’re immature, incompetent and naive, not without good qualities but prone to misunderstandings, mistakes and mishaps, which as characters in a sitcom they can scarcely fail to be.

It was a "fallacy" and "misunderstanding of the world" if people did not "believe that the online space is as dangerous for people as the streets," he added.