The Trump administration may continue to deny that they've been sending mixed messages on tariffs since "Liberation Day" back in April, but a timeline published by Forbes laid out in black and white the reality of President Donald Trump's erratic trade policy.

The timeline of "The 22 Times He's Changed His Mind On Tariffs" comes as Trump's latest action on steel and aluminum imports ballooned to 50% on Wednesday.

The timeline included comments from aides like Peter Navarro and Howard Lutnick claiming in televised interviews that Trump was “not going to back off” his tariffs. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt declared "there would be no exemptions" to Trump's tariffs on foreign goods.

But, according to Forbes, Trump's "new math" of "just dividing a country’s trade surplus with the U.S. by its export value, rather than the more sophisticated formula the administration claimed" led to "flip-flop No. 1."

Shortly thereafter came "flip-flop No. 2," that contradicted Leavitt’s comments, after Trump decided to exempt “copper, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, lumber articles, certain critical minerals, and energy and energy products" from his executive order on foreign goods.

And on it went, according to Forbes, with incidents like Trump declaring aboard Air Force One that "he was open to negotiating the tariffs," to his Truth Social post in all caps declaring, "MY POLICIES WILL NEVER CHANGE.”

Forbes labeled "flip-flop No. 6" as "a stunning about face," when Trump announced he was pausing "the worst of his tariffs on most countries for 90 days, though he would continue a baseline 10% tariff rate and raise his tariffs on most Chinese goods by 125%."

Always toeing the party line, Trump officials immediately "suggested the pause was part of the president’s negotiating strategy" — something they continued to maintain through "flip-flop No. 22" (raising steel tariffs from 25% to 50%), and most likely beyond as Trump's tariff saga threatens to define the entirety of his second term.

Read the full Forbes piece here.