Reader “does his homework” in response to issue of Trump and tariffs

Victor DiNardo has suggested I do my homework regarding Donald Trump. I did and here’s what I found.

Businessman Trump has declared bankruptcy six times between 1991 and 2009 related to his hotels and casinos. Aren’t casino permits a license to print money? He settled a lawsuit over fraud for misleading students to his Trump University. He settled a $2 million lawsuit for misuse of funds from his charitable foundation. 

Then there’s Trump steaks, Trump wine, Trump golden sneakers, Trump bibles, Trump trading cards with pictures of himself as a cowboy and an astronaut. 

Are these the enterprises of a successful businessman or a small-time charlatan? 

In his first term he signed the USMCA, a trading agreement between the USA, Canada and Mexico. In his second term he denounced the agreement and strongly criticized the person who signed it. Did he forget that it was himself or was he hoping everyone else did? When you sign a trade agreement you are committed to stand by it until expiry, not renege part way through. 

Tariff agreements should be settled by negotiations with individual countries, not blanket high tariffs willy-nilly on the whole world.

When Barack Obama was president, Trump condemned him for occasionally going golfing. He stated that if ever he was president, he would be working too hard to ever go golfing. He golfs continuously at his own golf courses and charges the taxpayers millions of dollars each time, a nice way to line his own pocket.

Elbows up!

—John Duguid

Amherstburg

Reader “does his homework” in response to issue of Trump and tariffs