President Trump fancies himself a businessman. But his resume seems incomplete. To fully understand how businesses work, here’s a modest suggestion: He should buy the motorcycle company Harley-Davidson (HOG).

Trump is feuding with Harley, because the company is trying to save itself from Trump’s trade wars. The company said recently that it plans to move production of bikes destined for Europe from US plants to overseas facilities. This is a direct response to Trump’s protectionist actions. After Trump imposed new tariffs on European steel and aluminum imports, Europe responded by imposing tariffs on a basket of American imports, including Harley’s bikes. The new tariffs raise the cost of a Harley in Europe by around $2,200, and Harley doesn’t think Europeans will pay that premium. The company isn’t willing to eat the loss itself, either. So it plans to build the bikes overseas, where the new tariff won’t apply and it will still be able to turn a profit—which infuriated Trump and triggered a Twitter condemnation.

It’s that profitability part Trump doesn’t seem to understand, which is why he should buy the company, leaving him free to run it at a loss and fulfill his trade agenda. Sure, buying a big public company would require some kind of special dispensation from the government’s ethical overlords. Let’s say he gets it. Trump can’t afford to buy Harley himself. The company’s market value is around $7 billion, and he’s worth less than $3 billion. But Trump has rich friends, and he could recruit some fellow investors to help him take the company private. Without public oversight, Harley could pay the tariffs, lose money and answer to nobody but Trump.

The problem with Harley now is that it has to do what’s in shareholders’ interest. So it can’t abide by Trump’s money-losing tariffs when there’s a better option. Other companies hurt by Trump’s tariffs are likely to do the same thing and move production offshore, because they don’t have much of a choice when the cost of producing in your home market suddenly jumps. And costs jump when governments impose tariffs.

Harley must answer to public shareholders

Trump ran his own business, of course—but he didn’t have to deal with the kind of government interference he’s now imposing on other companies. The Trump Organization, for one thing, is privately owned. So Trump rarely had to answer to the public about how he ran the business, except when somebody sued him. He was free to make money or lose money, and run the firm competently or terribly. The only people who cared were lenders who wanted to get their money back, and even then, Trump entities declared bankruptcy four times, stiffing the lenders.