Why are the much promised trade deals going nowhere?

[spidermike007]

President Trump who fashions himself to be a great negotiator promised months ago that he would have trade deals done in weeks, yet so far we have one trade deal with the UK, and the framework for another one with China. 

 

Is it possible he is not as good a negotiator as he claims he is, is it possible he has the wrong team working for him, or is it yet again possible that these tariffs were a really, really bad idea? 

 

With just a week and a half remaining of a 90-day pause on President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs, the White House is running out of time to negotiate its long-promised trade deals that could bring some certainty to an increasingly uneasy economy.

 

For months, the Trump administration has said deals are imminent, working with 18 key partners to lower trade barriers while hundreds of other countries wait in line to get out from under the burden of higher tariffs. But the timeframe continues to shift.

“I’ve made all the deals,” Trump said in a Time interview in late April, saying trade negotiations with foreign partners were nearly complete. “I’ve made 200 deals.”

 

“The idea that uncertainty will be resolved early this summer appears to be completely dead,” Justin Wolfers, an economics professor at the University of Michigan, told CNN. “This means tariff aggression is not dead. That’s probably not super surprising but some of us allowed ourselves moments of optimism.”

 

Inflation is ticking higher, job growth is slowing and retail sales are sinking. That’s a concern, because consumer spending makes up two-thirds of America’s economy. I was recently back in the US I have a business back there and I can say with absolute certainty consumer confidence is the lowest I've seen it in the 30 years that I've had this business. So, where is all this heading? Is Trump simply going to continue to make America and far less relevant version of the nation that it used to be? 

 

 

[SLOWHAND225]

What kind of drugs are you on ? Might try and get some help.

I've never seen anyone on the internet make things up the way you do. Actually, kinda impressed.
Even your beloved clinton network news is starting to rub his belly because they have no choice as people can see with their own eyes whats going on and its not the failure you wish it to be. Not even close
Unless you have some legit sources to prove your lies, in which case I'll gladly back track a little

[JAG]

Perhaps a (rather understandable) reluctance to kiss his spray tanned arse?

[candide]

1 hour ago, SLOWHAND225 said:

What kind of drugs are you on ? Might try and get some help.

I've never seen anyone on the internet make things up the way you do. Actually, kinda impressed.
Even your beloved clinton network news is starting to rub his belly because they have no choice as people can see with their own eyes whats going on and its not the failure you wish it to be. Not even close
Unless you have some legit sources to prove your lies, in which case I'll gladly back track a little

Who's making things up? Trump!

Where are the 200 deals Trump claimed to have made more than one month ago? 🤣

 

“I’ve made 200 deals,”

https://time.com/7280114/donald-trump-2025-interview-transcript/

[LosLobo]

Why are the much promised trade deals going nowhere?

Coz ...He's a real nowhere man, sitting in his nowhere land, making all his nowhere plans for nobody.
 

Trump’s promised deals tend to follow this pattern:

1. Announce a “historic” trade deal.

2. Get media coverage.

3. Deliver little or nothing.

Take USMCA: mostly NAFTA in a new suit.
The China “Phase One” deal? China bought less than promised, tariffs stayed.
UK, EU, India? Talks stalled or fizzled.

Turns out yelling “America First” isn’t a negotiation strategy — it's a bumper sticker.

[spidermike007]

1 hour ago, LosLobo said:

Why are the much promised trade deals going nowhere?

Coz ...He's a real nowhere man, sitting in his nowhere land, making all his nowhere plans for nobody.
 

Trump’s promised deals tend to follow this pattern:

1. Announce a “historic” trade deal.

2. Get media coverage.

3. Deliver little or nothing.

Take USMCA: mostly NAFTA in a new suit.
The China “Phase One” deal? China bought less than promised, tariffs stayed.
UK, EU, India? Talks stalled or fizzled.

Turns out yelling “America First” isn’t a negotiation strategy — it's a bumper sticker.

You're exactly right, it's a slogan and a really bad and arrogant one at that, and it is alienating the entire planet and making America seem even more of a bully than they've appeared to be for the last few decades. Trump is doing the opposite of making America great again, he's driving away manufacturing, he's sabotaging the economy, he's losing jobs, and he will drive up inflation. More than likely he will go down in history as being either the worst, or the second worst president ever. He is such an ignorant moron. 

[Mike_Hunt]

3 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

President Trump who fashions himself to be a great negotiator promised months ago that he would have trade deals done in weeks, yet so far we have one trade deal with the UK, and the framework for another one with China. 

 

Is it possible he is not as good a negotiator as he claims he is, is it possible he has the wrong team working for him, or is it yet again possible that these tariffs were a really, really bad idea? 

 

With just a week and a half remaining of a 90-day pause on President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs, the White House is running out of time to negotiate its long-promised trade deals that could bring some certainty to an increasingly uneasy economy.

 

For months, the Trump administration has said deals are imminent, working with 18 key partners to lower trade barriers while hundreds of other countries wait in line to get out from under the burden of higher tariffs. But the timeframe continues to shift.

“I’ve made all the deals,” Trump said in a Time interview in late April, saying trade negotiations with foreign partners were nearly complete. “I’ve made 200 deals.”

 

“The idea that uncertainty will be resolved early this summer appears to be completely dead,” Justin Wolfers, an economics professor at the University of Michigan, told CNN. “This means tariff aggression is not dead. That’s probably not super surprising but some of us allowed ourselves moments of optimism.”

 

Inflation is ticking higher, job growth is slowing and retail sales are sinking. That’s a concern, because consumer spending makes up two-thirds of America’s economy. I was recently back in the US I have a business back there and I can say with absolute certainty consumer confidence is the lowest I've seen it in the 30 years that I've had this business. So, where is all this heading? Is Trump simply going to continue to make America and far less relevant version of the nation that it used to be? 

 

 

A bill introduced in Minnesota seeks to revise state law to include “Trump <censored> syndrome” as a form of mental illness.
 

https://thehill.com/homenews/5200463-trump-derangement-syndrome-mental-illness-minnesota/

[HappyExpat57]

STILL waiting for evidence from just ONE human who got their "freedom sneakers."

 

Buncha suckers.

[SLOWHAND225]

15 hours ago, candide said:

Who's making things up? Trump!

Where are the 200 deals Trump claimed to have made more than one month ago? 🤣

 

“I’ve made 200 deals,”

https://time.com/7280114/donald-trump-2025-interview-transcript/

Ok, so he only made 199 deals because one got clawed back. BFD

Typical <removed>
 

[Jim Blue]

17 hours ago, SLOWHAND225 said:

What kind of drugs are you on ? Might try and get some help.

I've never seen anyone on the internet make things up the way you do. Actually, kinda impressed.
Even your beloved clinton network news is starting to rub his belly because they have no choice as people can see with their own eyes whats going on and its not the failure you wish it to be. Not even close
Unless you have some legit sources to prove your lies, in which case I'll gladly back track a little

I detect a slight note of hysteria in your reply Slow. Are you OK?

[SLOWHAND225]

12 minutes ago, Jim Blue said:

I detect a slight note of hysteria in your reply Slow. Are you OK?

I'm right as rain brother, just enjoying the mental madness that shows up here about Trump. Its amazing how rent free he lives in libtards heads. Though its sad they can't talk about anything else. 
At least if they are they could tell the truth, post some facts, you know, normal stuff.

[Quentin Zen]

17 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

 he is not as good a negotiator as he claims he is, i

 

President of America, TWICE.  The most powerful country in the world, easily.  Maybe the most powerful person in the world, which is insane to type and half-believe.   95% of countries fear him.  His own citizens fear him.

 

You must be good at negotiating something to get this gig, twice.

 

I could tell you about 192328323 deals done behind closed doors, but I'm sure you need to read it on the internet to believe it.

 

Facts don't lie.  President Trump.  

[TheAppletons]

1 hour ago, Quentin Zen said:

Facts don't lie.  President Trump.  

 

  Facts don't lie.  President Trump lies.

 

  (You're welcome.)