Right now. Its not an order, the president s opinion. Are President Trumps tweets considered official white house statements . The president is the president of the United States, theyre considered official statements by the president of the United States. Wow. Good morning. And welcome to morning joe. Im confused. So confused. What is that line from the office . Universe, you win. Its thursday, august 2nd. And what a way to start the day. What a way. So, is it the official policy of the president or not . I think the most telling thing of the whole story is how much his lawyers freaked out immediately and started calling around immediately. He was just venting. Just like a baseball game. When hes actually doing what talking about what would start a constitutional crisis. Or Obstruction Of Justice. As brian clause pointed out yesterday is exactly what he did in turkey back 2013, 2014. Talk about fake news. You talk about deep state conspiracies. You fire prosecutors and you have a were
trade agreement with us so that then when we go into the fight with china, about what they re doing to our goods, how they re stealing our intellectual property we re in a much stronger position. the danger here is trump is picking trade fights with our allies at the same time he s doing with china, which gives him much less leverage and leaves us much more vulnerable. the rest of the world could gang up on us. he s not getting the europe even union, angela merck toll join had nim a concerted no, that s when that comes home to roost with the allies, you need them in a trade scrap or going after terrorists they ll be less likely to put skin in the game. dealing with iran i believed it was a bad deal, but getting out of it now only isolates the united states more and there s nothing we can do now, willy, to get our european allies to at least stand at the side for a minute if we want to renegotiate certain terms that we may find