tariff on some tobacco products. there are some industries in every country that either are sacred to the country, or they have political allies with big money. if you look at the big picture, average u.s. tariffs 2.4%, european 3%, canada 3.1%. their argument is he focuses on this one thing and when you try to make the broader argument, he gives you the trump glare and he won t listen to you. we ve been watching this president for 189 mon nts no m. he has a populist message on everyone issue and there is really no different. the president is speaking to the american audience when he does the strong america first thing. clearly the message is also being heard by everybody else at that meeting. but this is basically a pattern at this point. he is trying to play a little cleanup by saying that everything went well at the meeting when it clearly different. and to the point of lack of reaction from the gop, they have
round robins because the president can t afford to talk about what s going on. he cannot get out a cogent sentence. he doesn t know the details of even the good things that he accomplished, as you said, the freeing of the hoft jds. he certainly doesn t know the details of something like the iran deal. he has no conception whatsoever what was in there. he just knew it was obama s, so it had to be bad and it had to be good to get rid of it and now we re better off and we re safer because we don t have the agreement. that s the level of thought process that goes into this. i would also say that the die was cast once he set his cabinet. if you re going to have a populist economic agenda, you do not stock it full with people from wall street. you do not put people like steve mnuchin in your cabinet and have him drafting tax policy. so on one hand he had this populist message, which you re right, it would have been interesting to see if he d actually govern that way. i think the democrats
even the good things that he accomplished, as you said, the freeing of the hoft jds. he certainly doesn t know the details of something like the iran deal. he has no conception whatsoever what was in there. he just knew it was obama s, so it had to be bad and it had to be good to get rid of it and now we re better off and we re safer because we don t have the agreement. that s the level of thought process that goes into this. i would also say that the die was cast once he set his cabinet. if you re going to have a populist economic agenda, you do not stock it full with people from wall street. you do not put people like steve mnuchin in your cabinet and have him drafting tax policy. so on one hand he had this populist message, which you re right, it would have been interesting to see if he d actually govern that way. i think the democrats were nervous that he might. but he decided to instead on the economic stuff go double and triple down what paul ryan and what the ted cruzes of the w
iran deal. he has no conception whatsoever what was in there. he just knew it was obama s, so it had to be bad and it had to be good to get rid of it and now we re better off and we re safer because we don t have the agreement. that s the level of thought process that goes into this. i would also say that the die was cast once he set his cabinet. if you re going to have a populist economic agenda, you do not stock it full with people from wall street. you do not put people like steve mnuchin in your cabinet and have him drafting tax policy. so on one hand he had this populist message, which you re right, it would have been interesting to see if he d actually govern that way. i think the democrats were nervous that he might. but he decided to instead on the
since obama s term in office, ha that has been unable to control its primary process. it went to the senate races in 10, 12, 14, 16 and now again in 2018. go ahead. ways going say it is a test kitchen of sort of these races in a trump, post-trump world. this is a trump state. it s a place where he won handily. he look at someone like roy moore. roy moore almost won. you have folks saying, i can take this trump message. i m not a pedophile. this guy served time e. wasn t a pedophile, but this one served time for people who died during his mismanagement in a coal mine. we spent many, many years railing against a smoke filled room. political parties would pick people. when political parties pick people this stuff didn t happen. this is what elevates the roy moores, the blankenships, the jeremy corbins in the u.k., the ability to engage in a populist