EU official used colorful, simplified cue cards in trade meeting with Trump

[left-of-center2012]

Source: The Hill

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker reportedly used colorful cards with simple explanations to discuss trade policies during his Wednesday meeting with President Trump.

The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that Juncker relied on more than a dozen of the cards while explaining trade topics to Trump, including automative trade.

“We knew this wasn’t an academic seminar. It had to be very simple,” a senior European Union official told The Journal.

Juncker and Trump emerged from the meeting with a handshake deal to avoid a trade war between the U.S. and the EU.

Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/finance/international-taxes/399042-eu-official-used-colorful-simplified-cue-cards-to-explain

[Bayard]

1. Next they'll be bringing crayons to meetings

Total embarrassment.

[Maeve]

2. And nice, simple pictures to keep him busy

And keep his thumbs off the twitter-machine...

[SeattleVet]

4. They'd have to keep a sharp eye on him then...

to keep him from eating the crayons.

[truthisfreedom]

13. And from scribbling on the Oval Office walls.

[machoneman]

3. Hey, I gotta sign in red crayon: RESIGN! n/n

n/m

[riversedge]

5. #babyTrump

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. See Don run. Don needs people to like him. They like their jobs.

If they like him a lot, he can run again.

So Don must take care with their jobs.

Don needs to stop making people pay more for stuff. Or they'll lose their jobs. Sad!

For the first time in his life, Don listens to clever people.

Everyone's happy!

----

This story was produced with the assistance of the European Union Remedial Economics Programme / Cette histoire a été produite avec l'aide du Programme d'Economie Réparatrice de l'Union Européenne

[lagomorph777]

7. Being smart is fun!

[CanonRay]

8. Like this:

See the boat.
The boat is on the water.
The boat goes places.
The boat has stuff on it.
People but the stuff on the boat.
That is called trade!

With pictures, of course.

[muriel_volestrangler]

9. WSJ headline: "Juncker's Trade Pitch to Trump: 'I Can Be Stupid, as Well'"

Link to tweet

(WSJ stories can be accessed via Twitter links)

[Scurrilous]

10. K&R

[GulfCoast66]

11. Well, it worked.

Trump caved for the day.

Once Navarro explains that he got played like a kazoo look for him to double down on the tariffs.

[lark]

12. Demented donnie just doesn't have a grasp of international trade so they explained it at his level.

His understanding of reality stops at about the level of a 10 year old from 1950 so he was treated like the idiot he is.