Trump: Might pull out of the WTO and thinks the EU was created to beat the USA

[BlueSwan]

Whatever you might think of the WTO, a unilateral pullout and imposition if broad tariifs would be the worst shock to global markets since the wall Street crash. I'm starting to think Trump is actually a Marxist plant who wants to dismantle capitalism.

He's not. He just doesn't know what the hell he is talking about.

I wonder how the pro-business part of the republican party will react to this.

[BlueSwan]

I don't like Trump and wouldn't support him if he offered me a million dollars, but pretending that on these issues in particular (defense and trade), he's not saying what many American voters are thinking is part of why he's getting as much support as he is.

True. He is saying what lots of people think. People who don't have any idea what they are talking about.

[BlueSwan]

Whatever you might think of the WTO, a unilateral pullout and imposition if broad tariifs would be the worst shock to global markets since the wall Street crash. I'm starting to think Trump is actually a Marxist plant who wants to dismantle capitalism.

Let him saber rattle on the WTO to get better deals and/or to replace multilateral deals with bilateral deals where the US has more leverage.

As far as the EU goes, Trump is right. It was, in part, created as a one-Europe government to counter the United States.

No. That was a small part of the french motivation, but it was never the main goal for france, and it wasn't a goal at all for any of the other 5 founding nations.

[BlueSwan]

Whatever you might think of the WTO, a unilateral pullout and imposition if broad tariifs would be the worst shock to global markets since the wall Street crash. I'm starting to think Trump is actually a Marxist plant who wants to dismantle capitalism.

He's not. He just doesn't know what the hell he is talking about.

I wonder how the pro-business part of the republican party will react to this.

They are already #NeverTrump.

I don't think so. If they were, Trumps numbers would be significantly lower at this point.