since donald trump has become president, when it comes to trade, his policies make america look like a he 98 pound weakling. he s done virtually nothing. that is a risk for the president, right you get the idea the first face to face meeting, you know the culture of china, your don t want to get in their face. these very positive statements. if he does not have tangibles to show three months, six month, nine months, a year from now on this economic front with china there s a risk? sure. china trade was central to his campaign and if you believed the donald trump of the campaign trail this is one of the thing he was very consistent about. you would have believed that he would have slapped a tariff on day one. he did retract the tpp which never went into effect but that was a significant action that did fulfill his campaign promise. it helped china because other countries in the region organized against china. he hasn t ripped up nafta.
he hasn t slapped a tariff on mexico. for a while there was a back door tariff part of the house tax plan. now we hear that may also be dead. so to your point if the trump you voted for was the trump who was going to get in there aggressively, smash the niceties of diplomacy, make that call to taiwan no matter what anybody said was the right protocol this is a different and more presidential looking trump that s comforting to people who didn t want a complete disruption of all of our diplomatic institutions but disconcerting to people who were hoping as a nonpolitician he would actually break some proverbial china. more establishment looking trump as we go forward. next, a white house shake up as the president s top three aides meet to see if they can move constant infighting and constant policy differences. its witnessed 31 crashes, 4 food fights,
russia then layered on top of it. we re in a much more difficult situation in syria than we were when obama was making this decision in 2013. unpredictability as been the trump calling card. and the secretary of state going to moscow. we ll get to the summit with china and military ships going towards north korea. one thing we do know is what the president decided to do was 180 degrees apart from what for years he said the united states should do. if assad got knocked off, what do we have? we don t know if it will be worse than assad. so what are we doing? i think it s irresponsible for us to get bogged down in syria and let s end up over world war iii over syria where we don t want to be in the first place. they insist we won t get bogged down. it was a one time response. the president s letter to