It is widely reported that President Trump felt relieved 16 months after taking office.
Opponents such as economic adviser Gary Cohen and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson have been deported.
White House Chief of Staff John F.
Kelly was largely marginalized.
Trump is listening to Sean hanniti and doing what he wants to do.
How is the result?
Judging from the evidence Trump dealt with China and North Korea this week, it was a disaster.
Trump's train has just derailed.
Trump's confrontation with China, America's largest trading partner, is confident that "a trade war is good and easy to win.
Just Tuesday, he claimed: "You can't lose in negotiations when you lose $500 billion a year. ” (The U. S.
The trade deficit with China is actually $375 billion,
$506 billion is the quantity of goods in the United States. S.
Import from China-we will not lose the money and we will get the sneakers and LED display in return.
But the attitude of the president, not the facts. )
Trump clearly thinks he will threaten China with tariffs, and Beijing will close down as quickly as its tough-line suppliers. Not so fast.
China retaliated by stopping buying US Treasury bonds. S.
Soy has damaged the agricultural state where Trump needs votes.
China also made it clear that it would not pressure North Korea to make concessions as long as Trump threatened its trade.
Look, Trump gave in.
First, he said on Twitter that he would lift sanctions against China's telecoms giant, ZTE, to some extent.
He also raised the white flag this week, and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the trade war was "suspended ". ” (
Who knows that war can be "shelved" like a phone call "? )
Trump's trade negotiators have been pushing China to buy $200 billion from the United States. S.
Every year-a fantasy number, the United StatesS.
Factories and farms cannot produce even if they wish.
China has refused, and the government has made vague promises to buy an unknown number of US Treasury bonds. S. goods.
Trump supporters like Sen. Marco Rubio (R. -Fla. )
This is rightly called "surrender" because it does not solve the problem of China stealing the United States. S.
Intellectual property.
Trump responded with a hard-to-understand tweet: "Our trade agreement with China is going well, but in the end, we may have to use a different structure because it will be difficult to complete, it is also difficult to verify the results after completion.
"Except for the obvious: Trump doesn't know what he's doing or what he's talking about, and no one knows what that means, so, he can't get "a lot" from China or anyone else ".
North Korea's experience confirms this argument.
Back in the March, Trump rushed to meet with Kim Jong Un, as I wrote, "he might give all the preconceptions of making a decision between the Big Mac and the four-point ball.
"Normally, summits with world leaders will not be held in the long quiet negotiation process without Richard Nixon before his visit to China in 1972.
Trump, who knows nothing about history and dismisses the established procedures, decided to meet Kim Jong Il without the necessary preparation.
As the hype intensified, Trump began to speak as if North Korea had agreed to give up its nuclear program, which took decades and billions of dollars to develop.
"Wow," he said on Twitter, "We have not given up anything & they have agreed to nuclear-free (
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, The website is closed, no longer tested!
The White House Military Office has made a coin in honor of Trump and "supreme leader Kim Jong Un --
Trump's honest man in Congress nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize.
The good news from the White House speech writing office is that you can stop struggling with the draft of the Nobel Prize-winning speech.
Clearly, you were not informed by Trump. S.
South Korea's allies have hired a high school cruise ship that is falling apart. (
"I think there is a wonderful conversation between you and me . . . . . . " He wrote excitedly.
"I look forward to seeing you one day. ”)
Heartbreaking but, after two weeks of rhetoric, this is a good call to show that North Korea has not entered a "nuclear-free"-Trump can learn about it by talking to anyone who knows North Korea.
North Korea's national security adviser, John Bolton, President Trump and Vice President Pence, are particularly upset about the situation. Eight years after MoammarGaddafi agreed to give up weapons of mass destruction, he was killed.
It is entirely foreseeable that Invoking Gaddafi's fate is not the way to get concessions from Pyongyang.
On the contrary, this will only enhance Kim Jong Un's desire to keep a nuclear arsenal, knowing that the United States has never attacked nuclear weapons --armed state.
So that's what Trump believes in his fictional "intuition": two humiliating diplomatic failures in a week.
The only surprise was that anyone was surprised because his usual instinct had led him to six bankruptcies.
If Trump wrote a book about his White House years, it should be called The Art of collapse ".
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