oh my momma check in from afar with remote access. and have professional monitoring backing you up with xfinity home. demo in an xfinity store, call, or go online today. to save 30% on all the medications we carry. so go directly to petmeds.com now. president trump s entire trade policy is predicated on his belief that trade deficits represent failure. new numbers show the trade deficit last year was the worst in a decade. $621 billion. the overall deficit in goods, the number the president has railed against, it was the worst in america s 243 year history,
combat veteran, revealed she was a survivor of mental and physical abuse by her former husband and also she said she was raped by a boyfriend in college. president trump s trade policy is predicated on his belief that trade deficits represent failure. new numbers show the trade deficit last year was the worst in a decade. $621 billion. overall deficit in goods was the worst in america s 243 year history, $891 billion. the deficit with china also the worst on record. the president detests trade deficit. he very simplistically sees them as a loss of money from the u.s. to its trading partners. the trade deficit very dear to my heart because we ve been ripped off by the world. $60 billion, $69 billion to $100 billion a year. a number beyond anything what anybody would understand.
exploding an all-time high. and those last two, the trade deficit and immigration central to president trump s 2016 campaign and victory. joining us now, rachel bade, kirsten powers and joe lockhart with us now as well, former clinton white house press secretary. the border crossing 76,000 in february, the apprehension the highest february in 12 years. the trade deficit, this number came out just late yesterday, 621 billion, that s the worst in a decade, joe. and the manufacturing trade deficit s the worst ever. right. you know, if donald trump had said when he was running for president i will increase the trade deficit and increase illegal immigration, he would have been in trouble. and that s exactly what s happened. i think it highlights the difference between running as a challenger and saying you re going to change everything and fix every problem with a magic wand and having to run for re-election as an incumbent. i mean, his policies have been misguided to put it mildly, f
new numbers show the trade deficit last year was the worst in a decade. $621 billion. the deficit with china also the worst on record. the president detests trade deficit. he very simplistically sees them as a loss of money from the u.s. to its trading partners. the trade deficit very dear to my heart because we ve been ripped off by the world. $60 billion, $69 billion to $100 billion a year. a number beyond anything what anybody would understand. the days of the united states being taken advantage of are over. in his two years in office, the trade deficit has swelled by well over $100 million. he has called himself tariff man, but the tariffs brought retaliatory tariffs that made
services we sell to our trading partners versus how much we buy from them. whenever we purchase more imports than we sell in exports, that is a deficit. in 2018, the u.s. ran up a total trade deficit of $621 billion. an increase of 12% from 2017. if you dig deeper, we can see that america s trade deficit in goods alone shots up to $891 billion in 2018 which a record high. for all the hay that president trump made about our deficit with china, the trade gap between both countries has only widened despite president trump s trade war with beijing in fact. the deficit with china has increased by almost $44 billion in 2018 alone bringing the current grand total to a whopping $419 billion. none of this sounds like good news for the president who over and over promised to eliminate those trade deficits. but the big question is, are deficits really the win/lose