I've explained trade deficits to you before, but you seem impermeable. I'll try one more time.
A trade deficit exists when one country buys more from another country than the second country buys. In this case, the US buys more from China than they buy from us. Why? We are rich and they are poor. We can buy more from then than they can buy from us. So we will always have a trade deficit with China and Mexico and most other countries in the world. They give us stuff we want, we give them paper.
This keeps the cost of living low for our middle class and lower middle class. We cannot make shirts and TV sets and computers as cheaply as China can. Or Vietnam or any Asian country. And the stuff they do buy are our planes and construction equipment.
The jobs in Asia are not coming back to the United States! You have to get that through your thick skull. We have to continue to develop our high tech manufacturing (the robots that will replace the $15/hr retail workers) and our knowledge industries.
Mostly agree. However, there are situations where some countries, and particularly China, have protectionist policies that prohibit "Buy American". We have to admit that, and we have to agree with Trump supporters, that must be stopped.
However, that is not the norm, nor is protectionism from other countries America's largest problem. Shutting down foreign trade, as Trump has pledged to do, will harm the first world country which can AFFORD the trade more than the third (maybe 2.5) world country that can't afford American goods anyhow.
There's simply no finesse with Trump. There's whichever lie you care to believe, with Trump. My guess is that whatever Trump does, his family will make $LOADS. Just like his "self-funding" B.S., he'll get all that money from the primary back and more. Trump will have his own "pay to play" ongoing. If you look honestly as his history, punishing enemies and making money off the weak, the "losers" of the world, is Trump's M.O.. He'll do the same in the White House, except, he won't make it there other than as Hillary's guest.