More "art of the deal" and another mind fuck by the pres to the American people...like all his other deals so far
The EU won Trump’s trade deal and other comments
Foreign desk: EU Was Bigger Winner on Trade Deal
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker “came to Washington with a bridge to sell,”
says Bloomberg’s Leonid Bershidsky, “and in three hours of talks he sold it” to President Trump. The joint statement the two men issued on trade and tariffs has “no numbers, no deadlines and no specific measures.” Yet Trump’s “fire and fury against European car imports” has now “been put to rest, at least temporarily.” In return, he got promises of increased European imports of soybeans and liquid natural gas. But “the EU cannot order member states to buy more” LNG from the US — besides, it’s not as if U.S. suppliers are sitting on lots of LNG they can’t sell. Juncker, suggests Bershidsky, ran “circles around Trump.”
Conservative: Is Ocasio-Cortez the Left’s Donald Trump?
On paper, they couldn’t be more dissimilar,
but The Federalist’s David Marcus suggests President Trump and new socialist superstar Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez actually have much in common. Both won primaries “against the establishment in parties that didn’t want them.” Both used social media “to do an end-run around those establishments.” And both espouse views “that quite recently would have been disqualifying but no longer are.” Their appeal is “based less in a belief that they have the answers” and more on a feeling that “the status quo is broken beyond repair and we need something —
anything — new.” But “this is a dangerous attitude that makes little sense given the peace, prosperity, and well-being most Americans enjoy today.” Yet there’s “a good chance” she can “bring her party along with her.”
Ex-gov: No US Bailout for States Drowning in Debt
When a state “pursues boneheaded policies long enough,”
notes former Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels at The Washington Post, “people and businesses get up and leave, taking tax dollars with them.” And over the past few years, several large states “have descended into unmanageable public indebtedness,” thanks to the explosion of Medicaid and “grotesque” public pensions. So, he asks, “where is a destitute governor to turn?” Eventually, “we can anticipate pleas for nationalization of these impossible obligations”— or “subsidy of the poor by the prudent.” California did just that in 2009, pitching it as an “investment” by more fiscally sane states. And though it didn’t succeed, it did walk away with $8 billion in federal “stimulus” money. But now, warns Daniels, “such a heist will be harder to justify in the absence of a national economic emergency.”
https://nypost.com/2018/07/26/the-eu-won-trumps-trade-deal-and-other-comments/