'Basically, we opened up Europe,' Trump says -- despite no final trade deal

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill



BY JORDAN FABIAN - 07/26/18 01:53 PM EDT

President Trump on Thursday took a victory lap over his handshake agreement to avoid a trade war with the European Union, declaring "basically, we opened up Europe" to U.S. exports — even though no new deal is in place.

"We just opened up Europe for you farmers. You're not going to be too angry with Trump, I can tell you," Trump said at a jobs event in Peosta, Iowa.

Referring to the agreement struck Wednesday with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, Trump said, "you have just gotten yourself one big market."

As he spoke, Trump held up a green and yellow baseball cap with the phrase "Make Our Farmers Great Again!" emblazoned on the front.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/399025-basically-we-opened-up-europe-trump-says-despite-no-final-trade-deal

[Thomas Hurt]

1. Anyone know Latin for I came, I lied, I proclaimed victory....

[FakeNoose]

32. Sorry no, but this might help

[JaneQPublic]

2. Balderdash. It's no more opened now than it was before he messed things up.

It's another instance of Trump acting like an arsonist expecting praise & gratitude for putting out the fire he started.

[Aristus]

3. Astonishing. He really has no idea that simply saying something

doesn't make it happen, does he?

[dixiegrrrrl]

29. It turns out that Trump was a a serious acolyte of Norman Vincent Peales's Positive Thinking.

Seriously. He thought it was the most powerful message he had ever heard, and built his salesmanship tactics on it.

In his mind, setbacks are temporary, and his grandiose promises are merely incantations to create the success of his dreams,
while admitting to problems and fuck ups are a form of negative thinking, to be banished.

when you look at some of the stuff he says and does in that light, it actually makes a bit more sense, from his point of view.
Of course, you have to throw in the crippling narcissism, and whatever else is in his brain.

He once stated in a deposition that how rich he is depends on he felt at any given time. To him, that is sorta true.

[Aristus]

30. i forget which politician it was who quipped, regarding Norman Vincent Peale:

" I find the Apostle Paul appealing and the Apostle Peale appalling."

[dixiegrrrrl]

34. veddy veddy clever.

[smirkymonkey]

35. Yes, he grew up attending Marble Collegiate Church with his family where Peale preached the

"prosperity gospel". Trump latched right on to that. So much so, that he has completely lost touch with reality.

However there are some teachings of Peale's that trump seems to have ignored such as:

"...like the chapter that encourages readers to "Stop Fuming and Fretting," and the sermon that ended saying, "If you've been mistreated, don't chew on the bitterness of it, swallow it. Then forget it and turn your attention to the opportunities that are yours."

[Renew Deal]

4. Opened up?

Europe was closed for trade with the US?

[iluvtennis]

24. Trump imposed [or pending] tariffs on EU. There is no opening up. All he did was take his tariffs

off of the table. This is just nonsense. And I'm mad that M$M doesn't report on this nonsense -- they bow down and give him credit for nothing.

[FakeNoose]

33. After this, he'll say Obama messed it up and he saved it

No wonder the Europeans are disgusted with him. We ALL are!

[WePurrsevere]

5. He really is totally full of shit & Cult45's ignorant idiots continue to buy it. nt

[bucolic_frolic]

6. Europeans none too receptive to GMO

[no_hypocrisy]

10. Exactly!

[bucolic_frolic]

11. Genetically Modified Orange

Yup!

[cstanleytech]

13. To be fair a number of Americans are not open to GMO either. nt

[bucolic_frolic]

17. We have no choice

it's been rammed down our throats

[cstanleytech]

19. Sure if you are like me and one of the ones that are struggling to keep a roof over your head

and pay the electric bill every month but if you are lucky and are one of the ones that have the $$$ to spend you have plenty of choices.

[Snellius]

7. Every time he opens a box of Cracker Jacks he boasts he won the Nobel Prize

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

31. Every time he opens a Happy Meal he brags he created putting toys in products.

Believe me.

[NCjack]

8. IQ-45: he is a legend in his own mind. At the end of August, with beans

being sold at a loss, the failure will be assigned to ex-Pres. Obama and the DEMs.

[LudwigPastorius]

9. Lie, threaten, and bluster,...

agree to a meeting,...

shit all over everything,...

then walk away and declare victory.


Yeah, we've all seen it so many times before.

[markses66]

12. ROFL...And when the prices don't come up, and when they lose their farms, then what?

Trump keeps doubling and tripling down on this nonsense as if reality isn't already hitting people. He's out there because they're getting slaughtered by his policies. So kick the can down the road again, as the prices plummet and plummet, the crops come in, and the bills come due? I guess if it's all you have, it's all you have.

This is gonna be a bad come down for a lot of these people. Many will end up destitute behind his complete incompetence.

[Docreed2003]

14. The eternal carnival barker...nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

16. The snake oil salesman who buys & drinks snake oil from other snake oil salesmen (Fox, InfoWars). nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

15. Like the Wall, Korean bodies, healthDontCare, middle class tax cuts, .... . . . nt

[Rural_Progressive]

18. Okay, let me know if I understand this correctly

Donnie O starts a fight with our friends
Our friends kick the shit out of him
Donnie O asks them to please be nice and stop knocking the snot out of him
Our friends decide to be nice and stop
Donnie O declares that he won the fight

Is that an accurate assessment of the situation?

[dalton99a]

21. Yep.

[bucolic_frolic]

20. Trump is on both sides of everything

while governing from the extreme right. He thinks people won't be able to figure it out. He might be right. GWB and his father did the same thing to a lesser extent. Flip-flops tell both sides of every issue what they want to hear. It's popular. Until people figure out the game being played on their intelligence.

[sinkingfeeling]

22. So, is the $12 billion bailout cancelled?

[iluvtennis]

23. But he is the one who had shutdown exports to Europe. This is utter nonsense.

[kimbutgar]

27. That was my first thought also

We had open trade and good relations with Europe and then he messed it up.

Wtf is he talking about? Grandpa needs his dementia medicine.

[SergeStorms]

25. Hey Donnie, how's that amazing deal you made with...

Kim Jong-un going? I bet Kim made everyone take the uranium off the hands of their watches, hmmmm? You are, without a doubt, the most fantastic negotiator on the planet, your assholiness!

[pbmus]

26. These rallies will end soon....and this is not a threat...

[Turbineguy]

28. "....opened up Europe....."

get stuffed clown.