Steve Mnuchin just had to remind Trump to sign the symbolic tariff document

[Miles Archer]

Steve Mnuchin just had to remind Trump to sign the symbolic tariff document



https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/steve-mnuchin-just-remind-trump-sign-symbolic-tariff-document/

President Donald Trump signed a symbolic bill that puts new tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum. The document wasn’t a piece of legislation or an executive order, but it was revealed that Trump wanted a ceremony and wanted to sign something and the White House had to scramble.

Thus, today, Trump joined with steel workers in the White House. Toward the end of his speech he asked the workers if they wanted to come into the Oval Office for a photo.

However, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin had to remind the president to actually sign the document. In the past, Trump has left the room after his speech and forgotten to sign it. In another instance, Vice President Mike Pence had to stop Trump from walking out before signing it.

Republicans are not happy with Trump over the tariff.

[Angry Dragon]

1. Losing his mind perhaps

[LeftInTX]

2. None of this makes sense

How can it be a tariff if is only a symbolic bill that exists for a ceremony?

If it has no teeth, it is not a tariff.

It is nothing but a tariff wanna be.

[marylandblue]

3. Fake news about fake tariff from fake president

Sounds about right to me.

[spanone]

4. he's going campaigning in pennsylvania and will lie and say he's bringing back steel jobs

that's all this is about

[sabbat hunter]

5. The signing itself

is symbolic. Not the tariff.

[LeftInTX]

6. OK

Rawstory isn't the most accurate source.

NYT says, "order"...so it would be EO.

Snips from the NYT article:

WASHINGTON — President Trump defied opposition from his own party and protests from overseas on Thursday as he signed an order imposing stiff and sweeping new tariffs on imported steel and aluminum. But he sought to soften the impact on America’s closest allies with a more flexible plan than originally envisioned.

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Mr. Trump said that his tariff order would be tailored to exclude some countries and would give him the authority to raise or lower levies on a country-by-country basis and add or take countries off the list as he deems fit.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/08/us/politics/trump-tariff-announcement.html

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Politico or another non-paywall site will probably have details later.

[rzemanfl]

7. David Dennison syndrome. n/t

[MiniMe]

8. He needs a distraction

And as wound up as the repukes are about this, it is a big distraction. Stormy who? What Russian probe? Tariffs, Tariffs, Tariffs