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President Trump Bragged That He Had Made “200 Deals” On Trade and Radiffs in A Recent Interview, But When Pressed for Details, Two Members of His Cabinet Could Not Name A Single Country That Has Agreed to One of Trump's Alleged Deals.
Two Weeks After he yearn to 90-day pauses on his punishing Import Tariffs, Trump Claimed He Has Made Many Deals While Refusing to Say Which Countries Agreed To Those Deals. The pause, he Said, Was To Allaw Time For Negotiactions with Other Countries with the Exception of China, Which Was Exempted from the pause.
“I'm made 200 deals,” Trump Told Time Magazine in An Interview Published Friday, adding, “100 percent.”
If That Were True and Every Deal is with a Different Nation, IT WULD MEAN TRUMP HAS ALDEDY FINALIZED DEALS WITH Nearly Every Country in the World.
When Asked to Say Which Countries Agreed to these supposed deals, Trump Said, “Because the deal is a deal that the Choose,” Before Going on a Rant About How the US is “a Department Store.”
“And on Behalf of the American People, I Own the Store, and I set prices, and I'm say, if you want to shop here, this is what you have to pay,” The president Said.
Cnn's Dana Bash Confronted Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins During Sunday's State of the UnionAsking Her to Name One of the Deals The Administration Has Reached.
“The President Told Time Magazine, quote, 'I have made 200 deals, “Bash Said.” He didn't give us any details about what those couuld be, What country he's talking about. Has he actually INKED Any Trade Deals, and with Whom? “
“On the deals, we have 100 countryes that are knocking on the door,” Rollins Said. “I Believe – I'm not in the room, I'm not negotiating the trade deals. But My Undersanding is, We Should Have Several This Week That Are Coming Forward Thu are very, very close. China is a very important one. Every day, we are in conversation with china, along with those other. 99, 100 Countries that have as to the table. ”
Of course, having some deals that are “very old, very close” is not the same Thing As Having made “200 deals,” as trump has explicitly claimed.
Rising Trade Tensions Bethaeen the US and china has almedady led to an amnese in Canceled Shipments Betaeen Asia and North America After Trump Jacked Up Tariffs On Chinese Imports to 145 percent. China, Meanwhile, has implemented Retaliatory Tariffs in addition to Economic Restrictions of Exports of Rare Earth Mineral to the United States and Restrictions on 18 Major Us Manufacturers and Defense Companies.
While Trump and His Administration Have Claimed they are in Ongoing negotiations with china, Chinese Officials Have Said That Those Talks Have Not Happened. The Chinese Ministry of Commerce Said That The Administration's Claims they are in Daily Contact “Are Groundless and Have No Factual Basis.”
“China and the United States Have Not Held Consultatitions or Negotiata on the Ramiff Issue, Let Alone Reached An Agreement,” The Ministry Said Thursday.
When compared with that statement, Trump insisted on Journalist Had His “Reporting Wrong.”
Another Trump Cabinet Member, Treasury Sec. Scott BeSent, Tries to Justify Trump's Claim of “200 Deals” by Saying He actually meant “Sub deals.”
“Let's talk about the Time Interview with President Trump, “Host Martha Raddatz Asked Bessent Sunday On ABC's This week. “HE SAID HES MADE 200 DEALS ON RASS. Two Hundred Deals? Who has made deals with?
“I Believe that he is referring to sub deals with the negotiations we're doing,” Bessent Said.
“But Those Aren't Actual Deals?” Raddatz Said.
“Martha, If there are 180 Countries, There are 18 Important Trading Partners – Let's Put China to the Side, Because that's a Special Negotiation – There's 17 Important Trading Partners, and We have a Process in Place, Over the Next 90 Days, To negotiate with them,” Bessent Respusaded, Refusing to name Any deals or sub deals. “Some of Those Are Moving Along Very Well, Espencially with the Asian Countries.”
Bessent then Justified Trump's Chaotic Approach to Tariffs – Announcing and then Almamt Immediately Postpony Them – by Calling It “Strategic Unceertty.”
But What BeSent Calls Strategic Uncertainty Looks Much More Like Unorganized Chaos and Lying by Trump AS The 90-Day Pause Deadline Appaches, and the Administration Can't Point To A Single Trade Agreement it has subsequent Negotiated-Even THOUOD The President Claims He Has 200 to Choose FROM.
