what it is, a potential photo op? trump is all about the photo op. you talked earlier that he considers this relationship with the north, his only foreign policy win. i would question how much of a policy win it is just yet. the north keeps building these nuclear weapons. they view it as in the security 2r to have that and prevent any invasion of north korea. either now or in the future. hard to see america invading north korea now because trump is an isolationist. he won t even attack iran, even though his own advisors are telling him to do so. north koreans think long term if they give up their weapons now, who knows what kind of president
there will be no 5% tariffs. the question now is did the president get a big policy win here? has mexico agreed to do something significant to stop the flow of migrants. a classic trump play. you create a crisis and then you look like you solved it. most of the things that were laid out were things that mexico decided to dorks moving national guard to their southern border or things that were already in the works, which was ramping up the remain in mexico asylum policy. overall, no. it s not as though the president got huge new concessions. at the same time he can paint this as a political win. for him, that matters quite a bit. the mexicans, also, can claim that they were able to avoid giving big concessions. both parties here walk away feeling okay about the situation which is a bit odd because it was largely a self-created crisis. the first trump-kim summit.
who criticize his unorthodox and disruptive ways. off the table, for now anyway, the president s threat to impose, beginning tomorrow, new tariffs on all mexican goods sent to the yatsunited states. instead mexico has agreed to the biggest promises deploying mexican national guard troops to deter illegal migration and agreeing more that apply for asylum at the u.s. border can be returned to mexico while their claims are being processed. the president s re-election campaign sees this as a chance to raise money, rushing out a text praszing the deal and asking for donations. that s the politics. the scope of the policy win, however, is in dispute. the new york times claiming these new initiatives were agreed to months ago and mexican officials say they did not, as president trump claimed in a tweet, also agree to make giant new purchases of u.s. farm goods. so brace, braces for debate
allows the new mexican government to say look we ve done our part, we can t control these people and, again, they could just head into the u.s. illegally over the border. that could be an unintended consequence perhaps of this new policy if it, in fact, gets implemented. on its face it seems like it would be a huge victory for this president. it would. it would be a policy win. there s nothing wrong with asking our neighboring countries to shoulder some of the responsibility for shoring up our borders and fixing a broken immigration system that s been broken for previous administrations over decades. the problem is, as was alluded, congress was not involved in this decision. and it s time for congress to start doing its job. and maybe now with a divided congress democrats having to work with republicans, the republicans not controlling all the levers of power, they might be forced to do that and have those conversations that will be
make no mistake. this is a big political win for president trump. he will talk about it in this 11:00 rose garden event. he has also been tweeting about it. the top line takeaway is this opens canada up to farmers. farmers, frankly, who have been feeling the heat of the china tariffs. so this is a big win for wisconsin. wisconsin helped deliver the white house to president trump. there are major changes for auto production. there is a special dispute process, something known as chapter 19. the u.s. view was that that was an affront to u.s. sovereignty. canada wanted that provision. they get to keep it. you see increased intellectual property protections. the new chapter is 63 pages. the president gets to make the case that his brash negotiating style is the thing that brought north korea back to the negotiating table and it s also the thing that resulted in this now concrete policy win that he gets to talk about not just in the rose garden, but also on the campaign trail ahead of the