The following article by Nicole Lewis was posted on the Washington Post website January 8, 2018:
“We don’t have a surplus with anybody. We have the worst deals.”
— President Trump, remarks during a rally in Pensacola, Fla., on Dec. 8, 2017
The United States’ trade deficit with other countries appears to be a thorn in President Trump’s side. He has repeatedly characterized the United States as being on the losing end of the North American Free Trade Agreement and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (from which he withdrew the United States before TPP became a reality). NAFTA governs trade between the United States, Mexico and Canada, and the TPP was intended to facilitate trade between the United States and 11 other countries around the Pacific Ocean. Continue reading “Trump’s repeated claim: ‘We don’t have a surplus with anybody’”