Trump’s Trade Win: A New, Improved NAFTA
The left was appalled when President Trump criticized Canada and Mexico (“Promise Kept,” Editorial, Oct. 2).
He was supposed to keep quiet about the unfair-to-America NAFTA deal, but now we have a better agreement.
Do you suppose that the president knows much more about how to reach a deal than the negotiators of the previous agreement? Perish the thought. William Neubeck Freehold
In his Inaugural Address, Trump pitted his vision of America First against “the false song of globalism.”
He took stock of the winnowing out of America’s manufacturing base caused by “free trade” and adopted the mantle of “fair trade.”
The Great Disrupter understands that we have the greatest consumer market in the world, thus giving us a strong economic negotiating hand to play.
The United States Mexico Canada Agreement shows that the time has come to think outside the globalist box. James Hyland Beechhurst The USMCA seems fine as far as it goes — and it’s certainly better than no deal at all.
However, one would think the difference between NAFTA, the “worst deal ever made” (according to Trump), and the USMCA, a “historic transaction” (according to Trump), would be quite vast.
Yet the USMCA is by and large a renaming of NAFTA with some tinkering around the edges.
For those paying attention, Trump’s reliance on absurd levels of hyperbole gives away the game: This administration is 90 percent image and messaging — more simply, propaganda — and 10 percent policy substance. Eric Hagemann Brooklyn
Trump wins again with the new trade agreement with Mexico and Canada. This will boost our economy even more and make America even greater.
Trump boasts that he has done more in two years than any other president before him.
He happens to be right, but he will get no credit from the Democrats, who will say or do anything to undermine all his accomplishments.
He will win a second term in a landslide. Thank you, Mr. President. D. Mann Miller Place