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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'I was all set to terminate': Inside Trump's sudden shift on NAFTA
By Ashley Parker, Philip Rucker, Damian Paletta and Karen DeYoung April 27 at 9:34 PM
President Trump was set to announce Saturday, on the 100th day of his presidency, that he was withdrawing from the North American Free Trade Agreement the sort of disruptive proclamation that would upend both global and domestic politics and signal to his base that he was keeping his campaign promise to terminate what he once called a total disaster and one of the worst deals ever.
I was all set to terminate, Trump said in an Oval Office interview Thursday night. I looked forward to terminating. I was going to do it. There was just one problem: Trumps team like on so many issues was deeply divided.
As news of the presidents plan reached Ottawa and Mexico City in the middle of the week and rattled the markets and Congress, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue and others huddled in meetings with Trump, urging him not to sign a document triggering a U.S. withdrawal from NAFTA.
Perdue even brought along a prop to the Oval Office: A map of the United States that illustrated the areas that would be hardest hit, particularly from agriculture and manufacturing losses, and highlighting that many of those states and counties were Trump country communities that had voted for the president in November.
It shows that I do have a very big farmer base, which is good, Trump recalled. They like Trump, but I like them, and Im going to help them. By Wednesday night, Trump who spent nearly two years as a candidate railing against the trade agreement had backed down, saying that conversations with advisers and phone calls with the leaders of Canada and Mexico had persuaded him to reconsider.
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samnsara
(17,622 posts)boston bean
(36,221 posts)boston bean
(36,221 posts)Won't you say you love me too???!!!!!
The Barney Show Presidency.
WTH is this guy three fucking years old. This is how you determines major policy!?
dalton99a
(81,485 posts)KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)jobs due to trade) in order to appease another part of his base (the farmers and manufacturers who rely on trade).
Moral: Trump will betray his supporters with nary a second thought. All of his supporters are eminently disposable
Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)He's going to help you!
kwassa
(23,340 posts)I mean, how could anyone have any idea?
GeorgeGist
(25,321 posts)HAB911
(8,891 posts)they would shove it us ass