Poll shows big problem for Trump's trade deal: It's Trump

[Dulcinea]

(Politico) There’s a fundamental challenge facing the nascent trade deal the United States and United Kingdom just unveiled: Neither country trusts the man behind it.

A wide majority of American and British adults support their governments reaching a deal, according to a POLITICO-Public First poll conducted last month, but less than one-third of respondents in the U.K. and 44 percent of Americans said they believed President Donald Trump would abide by it. Nearly half of Americans, including 25 percent of his own voters, said Trump’s unpredictability is the biggest barrier to negotiations.

The poll offers a sobering assessment of how Trump’s whiplash-inducing approach to tariffs has eroded the United States’ credibility in other countries — a warning for the White House that its combative approach is pushing longtime allies toward its biggest economic rival: China.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/distrust-trump-hangs-over-emerging-095000048.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&segment_id=DY_VTO_CORE&ncid=crm_19908-1475736-20250510-0--A&bt_user_id=s3k%2B7mjwkQcSCYr8kdkNJDZOm8CrntEwiFOYvt4sMzMMiJBRdonMQpiBq%2B7x0zQH&bt_ts=1746877387508

[no_hypocrisy]

1. At this point, even if TSF makes "a deal" with select countries,

The "benefits" will be one-sided. Sure, the goods imported into the country will be marginally less expensive than the first stated tariff. But what's to prevent the consumers of that country from boycotting American products?

[Lovie777]

2. shithole deals would be made only in his favor and not the country.............

also the psycho RWers need to stop talking to me like I'm a child because they are full of shit.

"You must endure the pain"; Your child doesn't need too many dolls"; "prices will raise, deal with it"; "brown people are all gang members and terrorists"; "shithole won by a landslide therefore 2025 mandate is law"; problems the country now faces is because of that old and senile Biden, it's his fault because shithole is gawd's favorite"; et al.,