CNN: Trump implies he's 'ditching' NAFTA. That's not happening.

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Washington (CNN)To hear President Donald Trump tell it on Monday, the United States is abandoning the NAFTA free trade deal between the US, Canada and Mexico in favor of a bilateral agreement between the US and Mexico. And possibly a second bilateral deal with Canada.

Trump even gave the bilateral agreement a name: the "US-Mexico Trade Agreement," which he said would replace the trilateral free trade deal.

But none of that is happening.

There is no formal free trade deal between the US and Mexico, only an agreement between the two countries on how to resolve key issues in their trade relationship as part of the NAFTA talks. The US trade representative's office officially described the agreement as "a preliminary agreement in principle ... to update the 24-year-old NAFTA with modern provisions representing a 21st century."

https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/27/politics/trump-nafta-deal/index.html

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. I knew it, I was on record instantly saying he was lying about this.

Had to be.

[TreasonousBastard]

4. As were a lot of us-- just like N. Korea and his other "deals"...

he is just bullshitting again.

It's what he does.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Typical Trump. He makes an announcement of some BFD that hasn't actually been accomplished

but is only in the planning stages and may never happen at all, but he represents it as a done deal and the greatest deal of its kind ever in the universe. Then, when nothing happens, it conveniently disappears into the memory hole. Exhibit A: The denuclearization of North Korea.

[MontanaMama]

5. pResident PantsOnFire is telling a whopper.

I talk with with Canadian customs brokers every day...nothing of the sort is in the works.

[Fred Sanders]

8. Agreeing to agree to hold more talks...all very agreeable...amounting to nada.

[Takket]

6. This is the same thing as the NK "deal" lol

If drumpf were a football running back, he would get the ball at the 40, run it to the 50, spike it, and then look for a sideline reporter to brag to about his score while other team runs his fumble back for a touchdown.

[procon]

7. Everything Trump does is a staged photo op design to make him look

like he's actually accomplishing something. Its Trump doing a spoof on reality TV. Its Trump up marketing his brand so he can enrich himself by charging higher rates at his properties.

[2naSalit]

9. Like everything about him...

it's fake, illegitimate, BS.

[spanone]

10. Like President Obama said, 'he's nothing but a bullshitter'

https://www.theroot.com/obama-on-trump-hes-nothing-but-a-bullshitter-1795305249