Trump Trade Deal With Mexico And Canada Passes Senate - Ready To Be Signed Into Law

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More winning from President Trump. I get that he is over the top with some of his tweets, but its hard to argue with his economic and trade accomplishments in just 3 years. He is doing what he said he would do which is the opposite of most politicians of both parties. It will be interesting to watch the media and liberal (same thing) meltdown when he wins re-election in November. Get your popcorn ready!

Well, he did not win the last election and he will not win this one. he has been impeached. His approval rating hovers between 43- 47 percent. No resident has ever been re-elected with these numbers. And as Rupert Murdoch, no less, pointed out, he has done nothing to increase his base. The educated suburbanites that gave him a chance are turning away from him in droves and his inflammatory, juvenile behavior is firing up his opposition.

Truthy-A few key points you are missing.

1. The name of the US Presidential Election contest is the electoral college. Until that changes it makes no difference about the popular vote. It's like trying to argue that your football team lost the final score but had more total yards and therefore should have been the winner. If that was the way the game was played in 2016, Trump would have campaigned hard in NY, California and elsewhere to pick up many more votes. Hillary banked most of her votes in just 3 states.

2. Citing polling after the 2016 botch is ridiculous. That election has shown Trumps support is 5 to 10% under-represented, so if you are saying 43 to 47 its more like the 50s. And, Gallup which has used the same methods for years has shown that Trump's approval at many points of his his first term have been higher than Obamas first term.

3. Actually educated suburbanites went away from Trump in 2016. This is not how he won. He won with a slightly higher percent of minority voters than Romney got PLUS over 600 counties that voted for Obama in 2012 that Trump was able to flip. Trump has greatly expanded his popularity among blacks and hispanics and he will win by a wider margin in 2020.

4. As for your comments about Russia in other threads, please keep talking Russia and impeachment. Every time the Dems do this, Trump just gets more fans and followers because, while some independents dislike some of his tweets, they dislike FAR MORE a corrupt political class who they see as unfairly trying to oust a duly elected President.

Brillhome, a few additional points for you.
1) to say there is no connection between the popular vote and the electoral vote demonstrates your misunderstanding. In the first ballot they are to cast their vote in accordance with the popular vote of that particular state. The electoral college over-represented small population states.
2) you are making up polling numbers. The 8 major respected polls all show trump's support maxing at about 47 percent. This is a horrible number given the economy.
3) You are wrong again. Data shows white educated suburban voters trended toward trump and are turning away from him. It is not that trump won more minority voters, it is just they did not turn out for Hillary.
Trump has motivated democratic voters who sat out the last election to turn out in droves for this one.
4) Obama's poll numbers you cite for his first term were reflective of the terrible economy he inherited then fixed. Trump's terrible poll numbers are during a good economy, in fact he has the worst approval rating of any president without a recession.
4) trump is not getting more supporters, just the current fans get more excited at his lies, ignoring that he is the most corrupt president in history.

To Truthy:
I don't like Trump, but remember:
1. His favorability rating in Nov 2016, just prior to the last election was 37.5% with unfavorability at 58.5%, so 43 - 47% now would be an improvement.
2. I'm pretty sure that you know, by now, that Trump the Trump support base is solid. He could take a crap on the front lawn of the White House and it wouldn't have any effect.
3. That his support is below 50% will only ensure that his base comes out en-mass for the election. so 85% of 43% Trumps 60% of 57%

His behavior and ignorance of constitutional norms has fired up the democratic base in a way Hillary could not.

The update to NAFTA is a good thing, but it is evolutionary and not transformational. Big trade agreements are like that. And this all could have been done without threats and histrionics. While nobody knows how the public will vote in November, the margin last time was 77k votes in 3 states after 8 years of team Blue. Not exactly a rousing endorsement for team Red. After a 4 year Gong Show of lies and self made crisis on the world stage and being impeached (damaged goods), it will be very interesting if Team Trump gets another term. I somehow doubt there are enough voters remaining to hold their nose (again) and vote Red in November.

Won't happen. Many of the college educated suburban voters who either gave trump a chance in 2016 or did not vote will turn out for his opponent. Russia will not be able to help him as much even though MoscowMitch has done all he can to enable them.

Trade accomplishments?? The trade deficit has increased dramatically since trump became president. This agreement does not change NAFTA meaningfully.
Economic accomplishments?? He inherited a booming economy. The trends on stock market growth, employment growth etc were already in place. In fact, the average quarterly GDP is lower than Obama's last term.
And trump has kept this up mainly by inflating the deficit by $2 trillion with an ill-advised tax cut during an expansion.

Trump said he would eliminate the deficit in 8 years. He has exploded it upwards in less than 4. Like atomic bomb explosion upwards. Billionaires love it because it has exploded their bank accounts as well. Good for them, I guess.

The new Nafta deal is largely based on work the Obama effort worked on the final year or so of his administration with the exception of some small tariffs that may or may not be included in the final deal, or may be simply be unenforced. This was pure ego rebranding and unnecessary turmoil with neighbors and allies. Unfriendly countries have benefitted enormously from this presidents actions based on simple egotistic spite. Businesses simply want a stable forward looking trade agreement in which to plan ahead long term- virtually any deal would do and all it would have taken was a simple sit down and meetings for a week or so. We could have done without the ego-driven reality show.

So you Trump haters are going to vote for Warren or Sanders, two far far left socialists who will ruin our economy, give us universally shitty healthcare, ban internal combustion engines, and raise taxes on just about everyone? Talk about insanity. Or how about the corrupt Biden who is the poster boy for quid pro quo with his intervention in Ukraine to take the heat off his son? Good luck when you get laid off by your employer who is now paying higher taxes. The so-called rich don't have enough money to pay for all those socialist programs. YOU will be paying for them. Say good-bye to your ICE car. Get on the bus or walk.

No we are going to vote for Bloomberg or Biden. Quit being triggered.

Oh, and statistically, I know you tRump fans hate experts and facts, both Clinton and Obama had better economies than trump. Both did so without recklessly inflating the deficit. You see, trump's continuation of the Obama boom is paid for the government. The $2 trillion tax break dumb donny gave the top 1 percent will be paid by the rest of us.

@section31 - Here is the reality. The Trump $1T tax cut isn't helping anyone but make corporations more wealthy and reward stockholders. Here is an article that shows the top US banks had a $32B USD windfall and have not expanded credit or given raises or pensions. They have profited from it instead doing zero for the economy.

And no matter who gets in, everything still has to pass the House and the Senate. Everything gets watered down and dulled. You make things better a yard or more at a time. You don't get to run the ball in just by being elected.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-16/trump-tax-cut-hands-32-billion-windfall-to-america-s-top-banks?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_medium=social&cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&utm_content=business

I love how the far left whackos kow tow to the FailBama economy. I guess the $400 million he gave to Iran in secret helped our economy as well eh? The real truth is this is Trump's show and he gets the credit for the sucesses. He didn't leave an American ambassador to die. He didn't kow tow to world leaders who do not like us. It's the left wing nutcases that don't want to understand the facts. They hide behind their pals at CNN, MSNBC, and Bloomberg, et al.

Unless you work and live in a bubble, when corporations make money, so do you. Your 401k and IRA are now much bigger because the stock market is composed of those corporations. Your job still exists because of those corporations. You got a raise because of those corporations. Leftists love to demonize corporations yet they don't have the guts to start their own businesses and make their own contributions to the economy.

No he had an American ambassador trailed and was willing to have her killed.
And that stupid Bhenghazi lie has been shut down for years except for alt.right media.
Two republican congressmen admitted the whole thing was a sham in order to try to discredit the most likely democratic candidate. They are using the same BS playbook now.

Addressing your second point, on a percentage basis my investments increased more under Obama, as did your. But you keep listening to tRump and your "feelings" rather than facts.
And many successful business men and women are democrats and did so without 4 bankruptcies, stiffing contractors or taking money from Russia.
Over 40 percent of CEOs are democrats.
38 percent of small business owners are republican, 34 percent are independents and the rest democrats. So your entire premise, or rant, is baseless.
Go read a book, get informed.

One last comment, equity prices are not the sole measure of an economy. trump likes to keep saying this. One big reason the market is up is the $2 trillion trump added to the deficit which most corporations used to buy back stock, thus inflating the prices.
Manufacturing is actually down versus last year.

You are so misinformed it's laughable. FAILbama left Ambassador Stevens to die. Then he had his secretary of state blame it on a video, which was an abject lie. Charles Woods, one of the men whose son died that day, has in his notes, the lies that Hillary told him on the day of his son's funeral.

Your assertion about Yavonovitch is full of hot air like the rest of your post. Stop believing every word Rachael Maddow utters.

The BK stuff is completely immaterial. Big businesses do it all the time and that pales in comparison to the money that Biden and his son took from Ukraine, SELLING OUT our country. And let's not forget the $400 million FAILbama sent to Iran on pallets in secret, until the Wall Street Journal exposed it. The dhims are as crooked as the day is long.

At least this potus is standing up to China and their pillaging of our intellectual property and trying to fix the lopsided trade imbalance. Your idiot presidents are the guys who put most favored nation status for China into effect in the first place. It was the Clinton administration that awarded contracts to the former Long Beach Naval station to China, allowing it to steal our secrets.

As for the stock market, my portfolio and those of others, has performed vastly better under Trump than FAILbama. It's not even close. Furthermore under Trump, African American and Hispanics now enjoy the lowest unemployment rate they've ever had. The dhims are quaking in their boots right now because surveys are showing Trump is garnering up to 25% of the African American voter support. That's game over for the dhims if it happens.

I laugh at the hate from the far left. The more successful potus is, the more hate comes from the left. Now turn off MSNBC, and go to bed.

Apparently you get your news from Infowars. The SoS does not handle security at embassies directly. The real culprit is the republican congress that cut embassy security budgets which dramatically reduced the security at Benghazi.
Show me some proof about your uninformed 401K returns. Fact: the dow surged 11,783 points during Obama's presidency, or 148 percent (that it way more than double. 2 is bigger than 1) under trump it has increased 36 percent. Wow, that is way lower. And remember, trump increased the deficit by $2 trillion with his tax cut and pushed the Fed to lower interest rates. See, lower bond yields push people to equities. So bone spurs is trying to goose the market. I can direct you to articles in Forbes and Fortune if that will help.
Also, the liquid assets sent to Iran were about $50 billion, not 400. Wow, that was an exaggeration. The money was Iran's that was frozen in US accounts and due to international treaties had to be renumerated back to Iran. You can go to factcheck.org to find a list of factual sources.
Your spurious claims about black support for tRump come straight from fox opinion fools.
In a pole out this week 87 percent of african americans would support any Democrat over trump. I'm afraid it is not much better among Hispanics.
More bad news, the democratic candidates have raised 3x the amount of money than trump has.
And that does not include Bloomberg's substantial cash.
Oh, and a new pole out today shows 51 percent of Americans want trump removed from office. Sad.

You're so misinformed it's laughable. You love to spout off about "data" from biased sources. FAILbama's "recovery" was all smoke and mirrors. It was a jobless recovery. It wasn't until Trump got into office that we saw job come back. Now we're at an all time low for Hispanics and Blacks. And unlike FAILbama who had history's highest use of food stamps, we've now got 2 million people off food stamps. My 401k returns are so good, I don't have to work anymore thanks to Trump. I'll be dammed if I vote for left wing vermin who will tax everything we have.
Yes, bond yields are lower. The Fed lowered interest rates to head off an economic downturn. It was the right move. The Wall Street article is correct. It was $400 million, money Iran use to purchase weapons to kill Americans. FAILbama tried to hide it and when he was exposed, the left wing media tried to spin it as some sort of repayment. It's bullcaca.

BTW, the opinion polls are more accurate than the laughable ones that told us Hillary was going to win. Keep believing one of your corrupt candidates will win. Just today it was revealed that Biden's brother got $54 million in taxpayer loans from the FAILbama administration. Between the Bidens and the Clintons we have the two most corrupt families in modern history. Congrats dhims!

You are beyond gullible. The jobs recovery started under Obama and the trend line is unchanged under trump. See, trump did nothing material to change the trend, he just let it continue and then claimed credit for it.
You failed (surprise) to mention that percentage wise the stock market and your 401k did much better under Obama. It is disappointing that you trumpeteers do not know simple math. You probably believe tRump when he said in front of the Japanese OM that they are moving 3 plants to the US even though this was planned before he became president. I am surprised he does not claim credit for the sun rising every day, but I would not be surprised you believed him.

And to think that Truthy accuses me of going on political diatribes and staunchly denies that he ever does.