Ask a Republican: Who negotiated the USMCA trade agreement that Trump keeps trash-talking?

[DetlefK]

https://ustr.gov/trade-agreements/free-trade-agreements/united-states-mexico-canada-agreement
https://ustr.gov/trade-agreements/free-trade-agreements/united-states-mexico-canada-agreement/agreement-between

It was Trump.

He authored it, he negotiated it, he signed it.

And 4 years later he broke it with the excuse that the trade-relations that he created for the US are unfair to the US.

[tetedur]

1. Exactly. No one bothers to mention he has no one to blame but himself.

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Canada's population is around 40 million. America's population is around 338 million. We buy more stuff from them than they buy from us. Gee why is that?

And Trudeau reached out to talk to Trump he hasn't picked up the phone or called him back yet. Why is that? Chicken? Weak?

[SunSeeker]

2. Yup. Wall Street Journal points that out in their Editorial, "The Dumbest Trade War in History."

None of this is supposed to happen under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement that Mr. Trump negotiated and signed in his first term. The U.S. willingness to ignore its treaty obligations, even with friends, won’t make other countries eager to do deals. Maybe Mr. Trump will claim victory and pull back if he wins some token concessions. But if a North American trade war persists, it will qualify as one of the dumbest in history.

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-tariffs-25-percent-mexico-canada-trade-economy-84476fb2?mod=mhp

[Irish_Dem]

3. He realized that he could grandstand and make more money for himself with a different strategy.

He played it way too tame the first time around.
Now he is going for the gold.

[Martin Eden]

4. Dumbest in history? Not for Putin.

America abrogating trade agreements and starting a trade war with its closest trade partners is just what the former KGB agent ordered.