He's not beating around the bush. If you're trying to figure out the financial plan behind the tariffs don't try. There is none he's trying to collapse the markets for leverage. He wants companies and people to have to come to him asking for help, to be carved out as Catherine Rampell keeps saying. Then he can leverage that to his benefit get money or power from them in exchange for giving them relief from his tariffs.
He's not using it to negotiate better trade deals, he's using it to blackmail the people he wants something from