Jeanie Hannaman

By Charles A. Kohlhaas, MRC TV - I surmise these criticisms are from people who have never negotiated anything. Trump’s reputation is that of a master negotiator. He is demonstrating how he is just that on the world stage. Trump is negotiating multiple issues on a worldwide scale. He is like a man playing a dozen chess games simultaneously... Trump is giving a Master Class on negotiating. He is demonstrating he has the necessary mental agility to respond quickly and effectively to responses and actions of other parties and changing circumstances. In addition, he has the nimble mentality to maintain several different negotiations concurrently – chaotic as that may be.

By Auguste Meyrat, The Stream - In defending President Donald Trump’s tariffs, much has been said about the American economy slowly imploding from importing and consuming far more than it exports and produces, resulting in a global trade deficit amounting to trillions of dollars every year. Common sense would suggest this is not sustainable, and that a course correction is necessary before the country is fully spent and incapable of financially supporting itself, let alone the rest of the world... But what about countries that depend on exporting most of their goods? Both sides tend to agree that they have been profiting greatly from the current arrangement.