The Guardian view on Trump's trade betrayal: rhetoric hides trickle down economics on steroids | Editorial

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : Friends, such as the EU and the UK, as well as opponents like China are also under threat.
47% : The US president's tariffs pose as worker protection, but they're a smokescreen - his bluster trades US credibility for a $4.6tn tax-cutting giveaway to the rich In 2020, Donald Trump scrapped the North American free trade agreement, replacing it with the "United States Mexico Canada agreement", which he bragged was "the fairest, most balanced, and beneficial" trade deal ever.
25% : Trump is exploiting presidential emergency powers to push these tariffs with no real constraints.
17% : Yet Trump has convinced many Americans that globalisation alone fuelled China's rise at their expense - a deliberate distortion.

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