Posted on 01/23/2017 12:45:45 PM PST by Enlightened1
President Donald J. Trump killed the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) once and for all on Monday, signing an executive order officially withdrawing from the trade deal negotiations. It came as a part of series of three separate executive actions that President Trump took on Monday.
“The first is a withdrawal of the United States from the Trans Pacific Partnership,” White House chief of staff Reince Priebus said, explaining the first executive action President Trump was taking in the list of three. The other two were one freezing hiring of all federal employees except in the military, and one that restores the Mexico City policy.
As President Trump signed the executive action killing the TPP, he announced for the cameras in the oval office that it was a “great thing for the American worker, what we just did.”
Trump campaigned heavily against TPP, so it’s only fitting he’d crush it once and for all on his first business day as President of the United States. It’s his efforts campaigning against it—and the efforts of failed presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)—that shook Washington’s political establishment, and eventually forced failed Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton to come out against the deal that was supposed to be a legacy achievement of now former President Barack Obama.
Trump hammered TPP repeatedly throughout his campaign and even leading up to it in speeches and interviews, including many exclusive interviews with Breitbart News.
For instance, back in May 2015—when many Republicans were in favor of TPP and before he announced his campaign—Trump told Breitbart News exclusively in an interview that the TPP was a “disaster” of a deal.
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Back in the day, HTML tags that were not closed in your post would continue down the thread.
Thus, If I opened an italic tag but did not close it in my post, ALL SUBSEQUENT POSTS would be in italic.
It was up to somebody downthread to close it.
Scrolling marquee was the most irritating of them all. It scrolled a message right to left.
This was around 1999 or 2000, IIRC.
Oh, man, I remember that ...
Being new to FR, I was so afraid to even make a response to a post, for fear that I'd forget to close my tags ...
Oh, I got a butt reaming more than once, but it was fun playing around with the HTML.
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