I don’t know.
Trump was really all about America when he ran. Since winning, he has been much more about involving us, just like the old gang did, with Beijing becoming yet another big competitor to us in everything.
I don’t like it. At all. We do not want to make China yet more strong, globally. We really don’t. We want to become stronger, as America.
Both parties have been sold out to China forever. Forever. More than one entire generation. EVERYONE has been selling out our very own country.
Trump seemed to be different.
I have not seen him different, yet. I am still waiting for that.
We are not doing well in global trade. Both parties have been completely sold out, on this subject forever.
I wanted Trump to be different. I really did.
I haven’t seen any evidence, yet, that he is. Still waiting.
This is a more detailed article on the remarkable level of investments Jack Ma is making in the US because of the more favorable business environment under Trump. Perhaps you didn’t get from the other articles what these investments actually do (as you seem to be saying you actually do want improved trade balances, which is exactly what this does):
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-alibaba-idUSKBN14T1ZA
I seriously doubt all the Americans with the million new jobs are going to complain that the investors giving them work are Chinese. Trump has already made it a priority to help correct the massive trade imbalance we have with China. That means he has to make deals like this, where the Chinese will be buying much more American-made products and supporting American small businesses for the benefit of both countries. On top of this impressive deal, Trump has been working on a new energy arrangement, where China will purchase large amounts of our natural gas, which should also help a lot with our trade deficit.
Beyond this, Trump’s team is already working with the Mexican and Canadian governments on renegotiating NAFTA, so that our workers get a much fairer deal. The formal negotiations are set to begin very soon. Plus, his slashing of energy regulations has already created many more jobs in that sector—jobs that Obama was trying to ship off to China through his oppressive regulations designed to shut down the coal industry and hamper oil production. In his first few months alone Trump created 30,000 new mining jobs.
Don’t forget also how Trump just signed a $300 billion trade deal (about 1/3 of that in arms and defense technology) with Saudi Arabia. That is set to create around 60,000 new jobs in the U.S. (some people complain about it because a small number of jobs will go to Saudi Arabia, while we get several times more new jobs—which is just a perverse complaint). On top of this, I’ve read several articles recently about new manufacturing jobs being created (although of course some jobs are still leaving, which is probably inevitable to an extent). Trump has already been like night and day on this compared to the Bushes, Obama, and Clinton.
Overall, I’ve really been impressed with how much Trump has already been able to accomplish on this front, even if of course he still has much more he wants and needs to do. Naturally, the press will not mention all the improvements in the economy that we’ve had after only five months of President Trump in office (with the exception of Charles Payne on Fox Business who talks about it all the time). I do blame the “press” for most Americans having no idea how much Trump has already done, how hard he’s already worked, and how much better things already are across several different economic measures. He’s not a miracle worker, but he’s doing very well within realistic bounds so far.