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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Wed Nov 15, 2017, 10:46 AM Nov 2017

Trump said he would strike one-on-one trade deals. That's not happening.

By John Wagner and David J. Lynch November 14 at 7:24 PM

As he traveled across Asia, President Trump touted a flurry of multibillion-dollar military sales and one-off business deals with nations he visited. Upon his return to the White House this week, he is pledging to unveil more, boasting that his handiwork is “far bigger than anything you know.”

But the 12-day trip also underscored how little progress Trump has made on a far more sweeping pledge central to his “America first” vision: replacing multilateral trade agreements — which he has long railed against but every U.S. president since Harry S. Truman has embraced — with one-on-one deals more “fair” to the United States.

“None of the trading partners, particularly in Asia, seem to be enthused about such a prospect,” said Wendy Cutler, a longtime U.S. trade official who now serves as vice president of the Asia Society Policy Institute.

The most pointed evidence of that came during Trump’s visit to Vietnam, where news broke that the remaining 11 nations involved in the Trans-Pacific Partnership, including Japan, were moving on without the United States.

Trump, on his third day in office, signed an executive memorandum withdrawing the United States from the 12-nation pact that had been painstakingly negotiated over a decade by two of his White House predecessors.

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Trump said he would strike one-on-one trade deals. That's not happening. (Original Post) DonViejo Nov 2017 OP

He makes deals..."This is what I do.I make great deals". BigmanPigman Nov 2017 #1

One year after election no deals, no winning,yet 86% repubs still support him njhoneybadger Nov 2017 #2

Trump brags about making great deals, but he didn't do anything, he hired lawyers procon Nov 2017 #3

Nobody else in the world is doing one-on-one treaties any more... Wounded Bear Nov 2017 #4

BigmanPigman

(51,638 posts)

1. He makes deals..."This is what I do.I make great deals".

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Wed Nov 15, 2017, 10:59 AM

Nov 2017

Schumer told the Senate yesterday that the moron accomplished nothing and and only contributed to negative feeling in the US when he met with foreign leaders and ended up praising them despite the crimes they have committed. It was a dictator fest.

njhoneybadger

(3,910 posts)

2. One year after election no deals, no winning,yet 86% repubs still support him

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Wed Nov 15, 2017, 11:12 AM

Nov 2017

procon

(15,805 posts)

3. Trump brags about making great deals, but he didn't do anything, he hired lawyers

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Wed Nov 15, 2017, 12:13 PM

Nov 2017

to negotiate deals and then he staged a photo op. He didn't even write the damn book he's always promoting, he had to pay a ghostwriter, Tony Schwartz, to write the thing, but Trump claims the bragging rights.

He a fraud, a two-bit hustler, and he's totally out of his league in dealing with the world's leading tyrants. The leaders of those countries had no intention of signing a separate bilateral agreement with the United States when they have already agreed to join the TPP. Why would they deal with Trump when he is such an unreliable and impulsive buffoon who is easily swayed by a red carpet, a fancy meal, and some glittering, ostentatious pageants?

Wounded Bear

(58,726 posts)

4. Nobody else in the world is doing one-on-one treaties any more...

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Wed Nov 15, 2017, 12:16 PM

Nov 2017

everybody is forming blocs. We dropped a huge ball in Asia/Pacific by scotching the TPP. Doing that basically handed the whole region to China on a platter.

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