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Trump: I'll Ditch TPP Trade Deal on Day One of My Presidency (arstechnica.com)
US President-elect Donald Trump has confirmed that the U.S. will pull out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) -- a trade deal involving 12 Pacific Rim nations -- "on day one" of his presidency. From a report on ArsTechnica: Trump, in a YouTube video outlining plans for his first 100 days in office, said: "I'm going to issue our notification of intent to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a potential disaster for our country." He added: "Instead, we will negotiate fair, bilateral trade deals that bring jobs and industry back on to American shores." An emphasis on bilateral trade deals may call into question both the Trade in Services Agreement (TISA), involving dozens of nations, and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). Although the latter is between the US and the European Union, the complex political structure of the EU means that effectively 28 nations are involved and can influence the outcome of the deal. This was demonstrated by the dramatic intervention of the Walloon regional government in the signing of CETA, the bloc's trade deal with Canada.
Racist! Bigot!! Sexist!!! Literal NAZI!!!
How dare he try to protect American jobs!!
I expect Trump to have lied about everything to his base.
So far he has backpedaled on:
Building a wall - now a fence
Prosecuting Hillary - he'd be procecuted for same
Conflicts of interest like Hillary had - he tweeted it's fine, I'm sure he'll be able to put america's interests over his properties if we need to attack a country.
Racism - he's cool with it
Make America Great Again - he hates the first amendment, hence his badgering & blocking the media - they shame him w his own words.
There are two types of people in the world: Those who crave closure
Just curious why you think people in your country need jobs more than people in other countries do? Trump's policy can be summed up as "If they're outside our borders, F**K 'em all!" That's pre mid-20th-century thinking. Not going to be helpful.
By the way, relying on a jobs recovery is a fool's policy. If Trump forces more manufacturing to be done in the US, companies will accelerate their drive to develop and adopt automation and AI. The repatriation of manufacturing was going to happen anyway, due to this, mostly sans jobs mind you, but now it will happen faster.
Where are we going and why are we in a handbasket?
Agreed that TPP is bad, unfortunately, I think once you actually become privy to all the details of the situation, it may be the least of available evils.
Those details should be public knowledge, but they're not. Trump will be getting a look at the details, the question is: is he mature enough (at his age!) to rationally explain why he was wrong, or will he actually make things worse for America just so he doesn't have to publically waffle?