Deductions about Trump should never be etched in stone. People should know that by now. People who do that nearly always end up getting burned because they didn’t have enough information to make a solid deduction.
Example; “Trump broke a campaign promise to label China a currency manipulator”.
Unforseen developments since Trump made the “promise”;
1) Trump met with China’s president and by all accounts they got alone great.
2) China is turning away NK coal deliveries and buying US coal.
3) China stated they would unilaterally attack NK’s nuclear facilities if they didn’t behave.
4) 1,2,3 indicate optimism about the US relations with China
5) The dollar is building strength.
6) The stock market is up by a trillion dollars.
7) Consumer and business confidence is up to record levels.
8) The economy added an unpredicted amount of jobs with business pledging to add many more.
So why should Trump still label China a currency manipulator?? Why should Trump still go after Yellen??
Trump has adapted to the changing reality. That is what a strategic thinker does.
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This video clearly illustrates the difference between strategic thinking vs non-strategic thinking.
Syria debate between Bill Mitchell and Paul Joseph Watson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1zQQzZmuZk
Lots of people here should watch, think, and learn from it. So many are like Watson, glom on to little bits of information but never really put them together into a coherent big picture view so they can understand in a global sense what is actually going on. People who do that will never understand how strategic thinker like Trump operates. These shallow thinkers who flit from one tiny viewpoint to another are those who take Trump literally, but not seriously, just like the MSM does.
Some of us here pointed out in 2016 that China was not manipulating its currency the way Trump and a lot of his supporters claimed it was. If anything, China manipulates its currency by propping it up, not by devaluing it.
And Janet Yellen is an excellent Fed dove now that I like Fed doves.
Broken promises? LOL
Neither of those two things were “promises”. And few care about these specific issues.
AllahPundit is a nevertrumper idiot. He’s got nothing and is clearly reaching.
I am surprised how many on this forum still do not understand President Trump and the “art of the deal” and his negotiating style.
The EX/IM bank is a jobs creator
I am astounded at how the political and ideological world has changed. I’m old enough to remember when no conservative American President would ever say about the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the People’s Republic of China (Xi Jinping): “We have a very good relationship. We have a great chemistry together. We like each other. I like him a lot. I think his wife is terrific.”
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Why would I call China a currency manipulator when they are working with us on the North Korean problem? We will see what happens!
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/853583417916755968