White House advisors called Ottawa to urge Trudeau to help talk Trump down from scrapping NAFTA

[K1052]

Media reports in Washington suggested a debate was underway within the White House about how aggressively to move on the reshaping of NAFTA, with hardliners pushing Trump to withdraw unilaterally before his 100th day in office. According to Politico, Peter Navarro, the head of Trump’s National Trade Council, and White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon drafted an executive order that, if signed, would have triggered the withdrawal process. It was unclear according to those reports whether the draft order was prepared as a negotiating tactic or in the hopes Trump might actually move forward with it.

The President was said to be persuaded by the argument to kill what he has repeatedly called the “worst trade deal ever,” despite concerns about the economic disruption that might result.

According to Canadian government sources, White House advisers pushing a more cautious approach then called Ottawa to ask for Trudeau’s assistance.

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/c...urged-trudeau-to-call-trump-over-nafta-threat

Totally normal. Nothing to see here people. Just thoughtful, well informed policy being worked out and evenhandedly implemented. Not like billions in trade and millions of jobs are on the line or anything.

 

[OutHouse]

lol

 

[Jhhnn]

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/c...urged-trudeau-to-call-trump-over-nafta-threat

Totally normal. Nothing to see here people. Just thoughtful, well informed policy being worked out and evenhandedly implemented. Not like billions in trade and millions of jobs are on the line or anything.

Canadians have to be like... WTF?

 

[K1052]

lol

As to the probability of this actually happening it seems above zero:

 

[UNCjigga]

You know, I never expected Javanka to be Darth Bannon's undoing, but I'll take it!

 

[trenchfoot]

Could this effort by Trump be in some way related to the epic sojourn he has embarked upon whereby he has myopically tasked himself with the mission of totally erasing from the annals of history every major achievement that his immediate predecessor (of whom shall remain nameless so as to avoid Trump possibly throwing another one of his infamous tweet tantrums) accomplished over his tenure?

Or is this simply another egotistically motivated effort by Trump to piss his stank all over everything that might have the slightest chance of overshadowing any other measly destructive thing he has done or will definitely commit in the near future?

This I ask in the interest of clarifying my view as to what lengths Mr. Trump will go to in order ensure this whole clusterfvck of a soap opera tenure he is in the process of painfully dragging the nation and the world through somehow comes out shinier and more lustrous than the aforementioned nameless predecessor of his?

His habit of crapping all over other folk's accomplishments in order to make his own somehow look better is only giving the folks that parody his behavior for a living much much higher ratings than his own, of which he's personally tanking into the dirt at this very moment.

 

[dank69]

Could this effort by Trump be in some way related to the epic sojourn he has embarked upon whereby he has myopically tasked himself with the mission of totally erasing from the annals of history every major achievement that his immediate predecessor (of whom shall remain nameless so as to avoid Trump possibly throwing another one of his infamous tweet tantrums) accomplished over his tenure?

Or is this simply another egotistically motivated effort by Trump to piss his stank all over everything that might have the slightest chance of overshadowing any other measly destructive thing he has done or will definitely commit in the near future?

This I ask in the interest of clarifying my view as to what lengths Mr. Trump will go to in order ensure this whole clusterfvck of a soap opera tenure he is in the process of painfully dragging the nation and the world through somehow comes out shinier and more lustrous than the aforementioned nameless predecessor of his?

His habit of crapping all over other folk's accomplishments in order to make his own somehow look better is only giving the folks that parody his behavior for a living much much higher ratings than his own, of which he's personally tanking into the dirt at this very moment.

Trump is just like every Fox News viewer. He thinks anything and everything that got even a single yes vote from a liberal is the worst thing ever for this great country he loves, so it must be undone. He has no idea that NAFTA was a Republican policy because Fox News has been telling their viewers that it was Clinton's fault.

 

[hal2kilo]

Trump is just like every Fox News viewer. He thinks anything and everything that got even a single yes vote from a liberal is the worst thing ever for this great country he loves, so it must be undone. He has no idea that NAFTA was a Republican policy because Fox News has been telling their viewers that it was Clinton's fault.

It's easy, Clinton sign it. Cons don't do nuance.