President Donald Trump was ready to terminate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), but changed his mind this week during discussions with advisers and the leaders of Canada and Mexico.
“You know I was really ready and psyched to terminate NAFTA,” Trump told Reuters on Thursday.
But Trump said he was persuaded to reconsider his decision and work with Canada and Mexico after speaking with the leaders of those countries.
“I’m not looking to hurt Canada and I’m not looking to hurt Mexico. They’re two countries I really like,” Trump told Reuters. “So they asked to renegotiate, and I said yes.”
The President also listened to some of his advisers, who warned that nixing the trade deal could hurt some Americans, the Washington Post reported. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue told Trump that terminating NAFTA could hurt some areas of the country that rely on the agriculture and manufacturing industries — areas that supported Trump, per the Washington Post.
“It shows that I do have a very big farmer base, which is good,” Trump told the Post, referring to a map Perdue showed to Trump. “They like Trump, but I like them, and I’m going to help them.”
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson also pushed Trump to reconsidering withdrawing from the trade deal, while chief strategist Stephen Bannon and trade adviser Peter Navarro pushed for Trump to pull out of NAFTA, per the Washington Post.
Trump indicated to the Post that it was a tough decision for him.
“In one way, I like the termination. In the other way, I like them — a lot, both of them. We have a very good relationship. And it’s very hard when you have a relationship, it’s very much something that would not be a nice act. It would not be exactly a friendly act,” he said.
Just taken by itself, this statement is hilariously ludicrous. If the Dems are wily and cunning, and they can win over the farmers with promises of some crop support legislation and free government water, they can then claim, “All your farmer base are belong to us.”
Yeah, struck me too, sums up the man
Just show him a map in bright primary colour (no matter you just made it yourself ) and he will fold…
“Psyched!!!”
I do not think it means what he thinks it means.
[quote]Trump indicated to the Post that it was a tough decision for him.
“In one way, I like the termination. In the other way, I like them — a lot, both of them. We have a very good relationship. And it’s very hard when you have a relationship, it’s very much something that would not be a nice act. It would not be exactly a friendly act,” he said.[/quote]
The gibberish that spews from this person’s mouth is just astonishing in its ignorant ineptness.
Trudeau probably rolls on the floor laughing when he gets off the phone with Drumpfie.
I suspect Conan’s “Donald calls Barack” spoofs are, from tone and content, pretty much on the mark.
More and more it seems to me he’s really losing cognitive ability. He sounds like a child here, and I’ll bet many of you have thought the same in recent months. He seems increasingly limited to thinking about and expressing things in the simplest, most concrete terms.