Foreign leaders stop playing nice with Trump on trade
Most leaders have tried to charm the unpredictable president into softening his policies. Until now.
By MEGAN CASSELLA 06/09/2018 06:44 AM EDT
Frustrated foreign leaders who failed to stop President Donald Trump’s protectionist trade policies are trying one last-ditch negotiating tactic: a real trade war.
Canada, Mexico and the European Union have pledged to slap penalties on billions of dollars of American goods in the coming weeks on items ranging from orange juice to Harley Davidsons to aftershave.
Their moves are a tit-for-tat response to Trump’s own decision to impose steep duties on those countries’ steel and aluminum exports, and they show just how deeply the president’s combative stance has altered global alliances built over decades. Foreign leaders are hoping a slowdown in the U.S. economy and loss of American jobs will persuade Trump to change his mind.
“I think there’s a resignation,” said Tony Fratto, a former Treasury Department and White House official under George W. Bush. “You’re not going to do it with words, so you have to do it with impact.”
Until now, most leaders have tried to play nice and charm the unpredictable U.S. president into softening his policies.
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Eventually, everyone with as much as a smidgen of self-respect wearies of being pissed upon. I mean, that's just the way it is. Dirty Donny* will apparently never get a clue. And the hypocritical, super-submissive republicans are choosing to enable him, all for the sake of Mammon. Sad.
Good on the Global Gang of Six for showing some dignitude. 
* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief
