WOW.
“Trump retreats” is a common theme in headlines these days. He went from a national emergency, to threatening to close down the border, to giving Mexico a “one-year warning” to fix the problem themselves.
It is better for him to not bluff at all rather than make these empty threats on Twitter only to back down days later. He’s showing himself to be a real paper tiger. And surely President Xi is watching all this from afar and developing a strategy of ignoring Trump’s empty tariff threats and waiting him out? We’re, what, two years into tariff negotiations with no progress yet?
Trump may or may not know that he has already signed a deal that effectively exempts Mexico (and Canada) from future auto tariffs. It was part of the USMCA package, but it has already come into force even though the broader deal hasn't been ratified. https://t.co/7NITT9YWUK
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 4, 2019
Republicans need to find a new candidate for 2020. This guy is no longer a fighter. I don’t know if he’s compromised and the FBI has dirt on him, or this was his plan all along, but the MAGA agenda seems dead.