Jonathan Swan: “The biggest key to understanding Trump’s dogmatism on trade is that even as he switched political parties and changed his views on issue after issue, his one consistent stance over 40 years is that other countries are ‘ripping off the United States’ in trade deals, as he put it in 1987.”
“This is the one thing the president really believes, with his protectionist roots going back to the union-friendly environment where his father, Fred, courted Democratic pols.”
“Nobody can claim to be surprised about what Trump is now doing. It’s everything he promised during the campaign.”
The Washington Post quotes Trump at the G7 meetings: “We’re the piggy bank that everybody is robbing. And that ends.”
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