Trump trade ‘emergency’ follows decades of anger that America has been ripped off

Executive summary of the 'Report to the President on the America First Trade Policy'

Friday, April 4, 2025 Summary Related: President Trump's 'America First Trade Policy' memo Weight: -20

Trump trade ‘emergency’ follows decades of anger that America has been ripped off

Economists and legal experts question how the strongest economy in the world can be facing a national emergency over the trade deficit. President Donald...

Middle Class Has Borne the Burden of Unfair Trade

Batya Ungar-Sargon told Piers Morgan on his podcast that Wall Street and the rich are punishing Trump for siding with the neglected working class over them. Sargon said people cannot believe there is a president who is working for them, and that's the real story.

KOENIG: The Regime Fears an America First Trade Revival

Last Wednesday, President Donald Trump announced an across-the-board tariff policy to the American public and the world at large. Here is an excerpt from the Trump administration’s “America First” executive order on global trade: “I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, find that underlying conditions, including a lack of reciprocity in […] The post KOENIG: The Regime Fears an America First Trade Revival appeared first on …

Trump’s absurd trade policies will impoverish Americans and harm the world

US President Donald Trump is trashing the world trade system over a basic economic fallacy. He wrongly claims that America’s trade deficit is caused by the rest of the world ripping off the US, repeatedly stating things such as, “Over the decades, they ripped us off like no country has never been ripped off in history…” Trump […]

America First: Trade War & National Emergency