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Considering how covfefe treats Canada, it's a no-brainer for Asian countries to align closer to China, rather than the US. Not surprisingly, American consumers are going to pay for his political "wins" because his tariffs benefit his base but hurt the rest of us.

In remarks Trump wanted to be “off the record,” Trump told Bloomberg News reporters on Thursday, according to a source, that he is not making any compromises at all in the talks with Canada — but that he cannot say this publicly because “it’s going to be so insulting they’re not going to be able to make a deal.”
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Trump, of course, is known for both dishonesty and for bragging about his own greatness, and he regularly makes dubious claims about how he is supposedly dominating the begging people on the other side of the bargaining table from him. When he claimed to have made no compromises, it is distinctly possible he was making a false claim to impress the Bloomberg journalists.

https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2018/08/31/bombshell-leak-to-toronto-star-upends-nafta-talks-in-secret-so-insulting-remarks-trump-says-he-isnt-compromising-at-all-with-canada.html

upd: "truth is not truth" - Лживое хуйло calls a truthful report "dishonest reporting."
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/404586-trump-blasts-media-after-off-the-record-comments-about-canada-are