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Trump's Bullshit Trade Tantrums

Congratulations to Trump on reviving the Obama trade team's TTIP negotiations.

On a side note, I am unclear how this Juncker fellow has the power to commit the entire Eurozone to buying a bunch of soybeans and LNG.
 
This sounds exactly like Trump saying he got NK's nukes.
 
palmab03 said:
No discussion on Trump's big win over the EU?
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"The president claimed on Wednesday that “basically, we opened up Europe” to U.S. imports, despite no formal agreement being reached."

Shocking
 
WakeForestRanger said:
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Farmers like me put Trump in office. Now his trade war is smothering us.

“I am a farmer and a Trump supporter. I agree that China needs to be punished for stealing patented U.S. technology. But opening a new front in this trade war, while trying to reduce the blowback on farmers with a Great Depression-era transfer program, is not the right approach. It is the economic equivalent of treating a hangnail by cutting off your finger.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-war-is-smothering-us/?utm_term=.7102e70f7d0f
 
Koch network meeting kicks off with anti-protectionism message from Charles Koch

The network’s top officials sharply criticized Trump's plan to provide $12 billion in emergency aid to farmers caught in the trade war, calling it a “bailout of bad policy.”

“We put tariffs, supposedly, to hurt and put pressure on China, and then it actually hurts farmers here,” said James Davis, a Koch network spokesman. “Crops waste away in the field, and then you pull a Depression-era program out to bail out farmers, to make them whole. But who’s underwriting our debt?”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...age-from-charles-koch/?utm_term=.a1d4ab28fe0f
 
For the record: I have zero sympathy for either these farmers or the Koch network.

Trump’s position on trade has been pretty damn clear and consistent dating back to the 80s.
 
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