POLITICS President Trump: 100+ Mornings After (Term 1 Complete)

From Ian Bremmer on today’s deal:

USMCA is not an entirely new deal, but it’s more than a tweak on NAFTA.


Improved IP protections, new auto rules, expanded access to Canada dairy market, improved labor/environment regs, and more.


Trump will exaggerate the win.

But it’s a win.

 

I appreciate the extra protection

 

I was thinking, wtf does IP get all of this extra protection for?

 

It’s a real win because of the volume. It’s also an anchor for everyone else. He’s eventually going to win with China by putting America first in everything, which is what he should do.

 

I can’t wait to circle back on this Russia collusion silliness. Kavanaugh is suppressing that story today and that’s part of the strategy I suspect, but it’s coming home to roost. Trump is a knucklehead, but he knew from day 1 tht he didn’t. This was a stupid pursuit.

 

I was just thinking about this. The Russian collusion coverage is really on the back burner right now.

 

Too close to the elections, even if they were done.

 

Crazy talk. Should be a total bludgeon at this point.

 

Fun mini-novel.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-tax-schemes-fred-trump.html

 

Too long.

 

I read half in detail. Skimmed the rest.

 

Getting Presidential alerts on my phone now.

Thanks, Obama.

 

Aren’t their ratings already in the toilet with trump?

 

Relative to 2015, everybody's ratings are up. MSNBC overtook CNN in that time, though. CNN's doubled since then. MSNBC has tripled (and overtaken CNN). Fox News has generally increased, is and was the largest, but peaked at the end of 2016 and has since slightly declined (but the numbers were so huge in late 2016 that I wouldn't read too much into that decline).

 

https://www.fresnobee.com/opinion/op-ed/article219558065.html

 

51%

 

Totally unassailable.

 

Nikki Haley resigns.

 

Hm.