Posted on 08/01/2018 8:22:43 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
President Trump won a victory for freer trade last week when he and the president of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, agreed to find ways to lower tariffs and other barriers to each other’s exports. The outlines of the deal are still sketchy, but it calls for the Europeans to buy more American petroleum, soybeans and manufactured goods and for Mr. Trump to reduce his auto and steel tariffs.
We were particularly heartened that Mr. Trump and the Europeans now have a handshake agreement to aim for zero tariffs on both sides of the Atlantic.
This was Mr. Trump’s idea. The night before the agreement, he proposed in a tweet that “Both the U.S. and the E.U. drop all Tariffs, Barriers and Subsidies! That would finally be called Free Market and Fair Trade!” Amen.
This is a winning strategy that we’ve long endorsed with our friends at the White House because it is fully consistent with what Mr. Trump has often told us: his threat of tariffs is a negotiating tactic to get to lower trade barriers and a “level playing field.”
The next step should be to extend this zero tariff offer to other key allies, including Britain, Canada, Mexico and South Korea.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
I don’t want Trump to be “like” Reagan. I want Trump to be Trump and Reagan to be Reagan. Why does somebody always have to be “like” somebody else?
Trump is standing on Reagan’s shoulders.
Most of the republican candidates in my adult life have tried to equate their views with Reagan, and to my knowledge none of them were being honest.
Reagan is (was?) a measuring stick, a criteria, a lofty goal.
I was too young to know Reagan and his accomplishments. Someone who wasn’t should post their views/comparisons between the two.
I’ll bet Trump negotiated the release of this article by the NY Times in his meeting with Sulzberger last week.
NY Times seems to be pulling a reluctant semi glow piece out of their butts for the President.
I wonder if it had anything to do with Sulzberger freaking out over the released Cohen recordings?
Nah, that couldn’t be it.
Reagan set forth policies that collapsed the USSR. That is a hard act to top.
Why?
Because it’s a worthy goal.
I’d like another Reagan. I’d like another Washington.
See Democratic People’s Republic of Korea aka North Korea.
Me?
I see them BOTH as Americans first!
Cannot say that bout many “others”!
Not to mention...AINOs!
++++++++++++++
GunnyG@PlanetWTF?
TRUMP.45IF? We Can Keep Him???
********************************
My thoughts as well. I want Trump to be better than Reagan but not like Reagan and so far he is IMHO.
Trump learned a lot from Reagan’s mistakes.
Like Sandy Baby O’Connor and letting Dems and RINOs hoodwink him on border security.
Why should Trump be “like” Reagan? Ronaldus Magnus had his own style, which he executed with a grace and dignity that in many ways shamed the raucous fools who quibbled at his every action.
Donald Trump moves is a much different manner, willing to talk to most anybody, but always with the deal in the back of his mind. A very clear vision of what it is he wants, and a determination to share it with all of America. Sometimes Trump’s tactics appear confusing and even bizarre to those who cannot or will not understand his objectives. He will put out wildly contradicting statements on some issue, most usually to elicit public comment, and goes ahead to do just what he intended to all the time anyway, while others are still fighting over the meaning of his earlier statements.
Trump may only be fairly compared to an elemental force of nature. One may take advantage of that force, or fail to heed the dangers to self involved, and try to “resist”.
There is still a threat from the left but it is more internal now and not external; but the end result of the lefts possible victory this time would still be the same.
Globalism has replaced Communism. Communism got a bad rep so they had to change the meme slightly. Although slightly different from Communism, Globalism gets the one world totalitarian government they both want. The same place just different routes.
Trumps is up against it but I hope the right will prevail.
You don’t want me to go there.
Oh well, I will.
Trump is no Reagan.
Trump does indeed have accomplishments, and he may well end up being very accomplished with a good resume.
His means aren’t always so hot.
Reagan killed everyone with kindness. He was a genuinely happy man, truly optimistic, ever kind, but he would not be bullied. He would not let bad ideas go unchallenged. He told it like it is but in such ways, along with his general aura, that no one could really dislike him. They could not discredit him. There was nothing they could dig up on him.
(That’s a lot like Washington.)
Trump, well, we know how brutal he is. And he can’t stop “running his mouth”, with tweets. It only creates more trouble to no purpose, and one wonders how he has the time to do so. Reminds me of my niece who spent all her time making love to her minicomputer.
(Ready for the flak.)
The DPRK is joke compared to the USSR.
diffident = dangerous
I think Reagan was compromised by Iran Contra. The rotten amnesty deal was signed out of sight in a back room of the White House a day after the midterm elections. Reagan knew it was stinker.
Reagan deserves to be on Rushmore and I feel Trump is headed that way too.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.