Paul Krugman: Trump has a small stick.

[DetlefK]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/03/opinion/trump-is-wimping-out-on-trade.html?_r=0

This surely isn’t what working-class Trump supporters thought they were voting for. So why can Trumpist trade policy be summarized — to quote The Times’s Binyamin Appelbaum — as “talk loudly and carry a small stick”? Let me give two reasons.



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You read it here first. Men with small hands carry a small stick.

[Cary]

1. I dont think Trump is wimping out

He's just proving yet again that he's incompetent and, surprise surprise, a grifter.

[Wounded Bear]

3. Basically, yes...

Trump has no clue, and it's showing.

[Orsino]

4. In the sense that Trump doesn't ever seem to *do* anything other than sexually assault..

...tweet, golf and watch TV, yes, I guess he's wimping out. Getting out of doing any work, anyway. He likes to talk tough, but all he seems to do politically is demand that underlings take a hard line in order to make him look strong.

He has nothing to do with trade policy because he doesn't care about it--or much of anything else.

[nikibatts]

2. And a small--rhymes with stick.

[n2doc]

5. It may be small, but Trump is a huge one. HUUUUUGE! n/t

[Johonny]

6. The investigation into the trade deficit was the biggest missed laugh line of the weekend

I'm glad an economist got it. What investigation is needed besides Trump calling a junior college economic professor and having them explain to Trump with dolls how international trade works and why America might have a deficit...