A journalist on twitter (whose name I can't remember) brought up a good point on this: it isn't clear if there was ever really a threat to leave NAFTA, or if it was just something the Bannon wing leaked to the media in order to maintain the appearance that they are relevant and/or box in Trump on the issue.
easyD's greatest hits with added bonus. Looking for excuse to justify shutdown of government.
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"Relationships are good-deal very possible"????????
"Relationships are good-deal very possible"????????
i think he means "relationships are good; deal very possible" 2 separate thoughts...but with his shitty reading/writing/everything skills its easy to take that as "good-deal"
"The relationships are good, so an improved deal is very possible."
I'm no Trump fan but some of you are going way overboard. In less then 12 hours from saying he want to pull out he had two other countries agree to renegotiate an agreement that wasn't up for negotiating. Given all the crap he has said before how do you think this is a loss? It's what he says he does all the time and he did it. Nothing is decided yet and so it can go either way.
Though most will portray this as a L for Trump, neither Trudeau nor Nieto really wanted to reopen the NAFTA. Trump's hardball threats actually worked in this specific case.
Justin Trudeau publicly stated that Canada will be happy to renegotiate NAFTA with the US and Mexico in November, 2016 (Nov. 9th, to be precise), and Canada has maintained that position ever since. Canada's willingness to meet at the negotiating table has nothing to do with bullshit the orange baboon pulled this week.There was an executive order drafted regarding withdrawal from NAFTA. The Peso dropped and the Mexican and Canadian leaders got on the phone with Trump.
Trump's great talent is turning something everything already agreed on into a loss.
So he's doing what Canada and Mexico have said they wanted to do since the inauguration (and earlier even): have talks about NAFTA.
No, this isn't a "win".
It's just more bullshit.
easyD's greatest hits with added bonus. Looking for excuse to justify shutdown of government.
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It may not be himWhy does it always take him 8-9 minutes to type each tweet that continues one thought? Does he still have a phone that still does numerical texting or something?
Maybe he refuses to use any sort of autocorrect or prediction because he doesn't want anyone telling him what to do.Why does it always take him 8-9 minutes to type each tweet that continues one thought? Does he still have a phone that still does numerical texting or something?
They only cared that a diet racist is the president.Trump voters you tired yet from all this winning? In 100 days, all he has done is roll back environmental regulations, net neutrality, cut corporate taxes and appoint his wall street and goldman sachs executive friends into high places.
This is quite the tactic he's worked out for himself...
Trump: NAFTA sucks! I will get rid of it and get better terms or I'll make the wall taller!!!
Audience: Yay!!!!
....100 days later....
Trump: I've looked into it and I've made some demands and they all agree with me that the deal is better now!
Audience: Yay!!!! He's just like us!!!
I still can't tell how many real people are on that subreddit, and how many are just bots designed to heap praise and worship in every thread.That place is fascinating.
I'm no Trump fan but some of you are going way overboard. In less then 12 hours from saying he want to pull out he had two other countries agree to renegotiate an agreement that wasn't up for negotiating. Given all the crap he has said before how do you think this is a loss? It's what he says he does all the time and he did it. Nothing is decided yet and so it can go either way.
No to the bolded. That's completely wrong.
Both Pena and Trudeau said they're up for renegotiating NAFTA many months ago. Despite how loud Trump has been about NAFTA screwing the US, both Mexico and Canada have their own grievances with the agreement. The NAFTA bluff was posturing by Trump to make himself feel like a big boy.
If the other leaders had said "no way we're renegotiating NAFTA", Trump threatens to leave, and then Pena and Trudeau agree to renegotiate, you'd have a point. But that's not what happened what-so-ever.
Trump's great talent is turning something everything already agreed on into a loss.
I keep reading about how Trump keeps losing yet when I go to work his supporters talk about how he is getting what he wants. Seems Trump is very good at turning what should be an L into a W by controlling the narrative.
And how many reports do we need that his voters would vote for him again in a heartbeat and give him an A so far.
I keep reading about how Trump keeps losing yet when I go to work his supporters talk about how he is getting what he wants. Seems Trump is very good at turning what should be an L into a W by controlling the narrative.
And how many reports do we need that his voters would vote for him again in a heartbeat and give him an A so far.
I think there is a difference between people that voted for him and his supporters. I don't think you should lump them all together on this and many other issues.
11:30 AM Eastern:
We went from threat to surrender in 11 hours, mmmmmmmmmm, great negotiator.
I keep reading about how Trump keeps losing yet when I go to work his supporters talk about how he is getting what he wants. Seems Trump is very good at turning what should be an L into a W by controlling the narrative.
And how many reports do we need that his voters would vote for him again in a heartbeat and give him an A so far.
I can't actually get too mad about that deal making is an art line since Trump didn't even write or think that. His ghost writer did in attempt to try to add some substance and likability to Trump rather than just portray him as an amoral businessman that was only interested in money, and when Trump read that line, he loved it and decided that this is how he had been all the time, even though he didn't know it.
So, kudos to the writer--who now regrets having written that book, and admits he now knows what Oppenheimer must have felt like when they detonated the first nuclear bomb--I can appreciate the craft in what he was trying to do with that writing, but that's just Trump appropriating someone else's work and ideas again.