“Trump is demanding not just praise but adulation for his dealmaking skills,” even though he’s solving problems he created, according to MSNBC Opinion writer and editor Hayes Brown.
“Just in the last week, we’ve seen him trumpet supposedly historic deals,” said Brown. But these deals aren't what they seem.
Brown broke down the U.S.-China deal, which he claimed is “hard to see what — if anything — the U.S. has gotten out of the last four months.”
The agreement reduces tariffs, which Trump raised to 145%. “There is now a 30% levy on Chinese imports to the U.S. and a 10% rate for American imports to China, with more formal talks to come,” Brown said of the deal.
It’s not the only deal Brown criticized. He also tore into the U.S.-U.K. deal, which left tariffs inflated.
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“What little information was given made clear the pending deal is not the sweeping agreement that Trump would prefer, one that could replace the losses from London leaving the European Union,” Brown wrote. “Adding insult to injury, the universal 10% import tariff that Trump had ordered would remain in place for British goods.”
Yet he still wants the credit for making a deal for a 10% tariff problem he created. According to Brown, Trump’s two deals are causing more harm than good because Trump "caused less of a rift with the U.K., long one of America’s closest allies, than with China, but even in trying to patch up that relationship, he damaged another.”
He went on to ridicule the move, saying, “The efforts to then undo the problems he causes will remain themselves half-hearted, so long as Trump is still convinced that the tariffs will pay off handsomely.”
Brown believes the mess Trump has made, “continues to stain America’s good name and trickle down to U.S. consumers.”