Trump Appears to Have Rational Thought on Trade War, White House Insists He Didn’t

” commander-in-chief acknowledged to reporters at the G7 summit that he’d had some “second thoughts” about a round of tariff-slapping between Chinese and American goods. Hours later, White House press secretaryinsisted Trump’s very-defensible skepticism in no way reflected any official position.

“This morning in the with the U.K., the president was asked if he had ‘any second thought on escalating the trade war with China,’” Grisham said in a statement. “His answer has been greatly misinterpreted. President Trump responded in the affirmative — because he regrets not raising the tariffs higher.”reports that Trump’s literal response to questions of second thoughts in the trade war with China was “Yeah, sure, why not? Might as well. Might as well. I have second thoughts about everything.

The long-simmering trade war has been front and center in recent weeks as economic indicators have begun to suggest a recession in the offing for the U.S. economy. Wall Street is on edge as well. Last week, after Trump announced further increased tariffs on Chinese goods and China responded in kind, theTrump also stated at the G7 meeting that he didn’t expect to utilize an emergency declaration to force American companies out of doing business in China.

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That’s quite a headline.

To think, years back, we’d read such a headline about the president of the United States... “Trump appears to have rational thoughts on trade war”. Sadly, these days we’ll take any kind of rational thoughts on anything at all.

it's those pesky synapses

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