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Summary Of Trump's Oval Office Briefing

This is following his meeting with Prime Minister Keir Starmer. The briefing is still going, but I stopped watching. Here's what I summarized:

1. The deal with the UK is great and historic, because he's friends with Sean Connery, aka James Bond, and it's a comprehensive deal.

2. The world has been talking about a deal between the US and the UK for 25 years, since Brexit, but no one can do it and he made it happen now.

3. He loves Rolls Royce and Bentley and wants to help them. He's had many of them.

4. When he announced his tariffs on April 2nd, a bunch of car companies decided to build plants in the US, and in fact construction is under way.

Great news. Now, in reality...

Brexit was 5 years go, but what's 20 years between friends.

Sean Connery has been dead about 5 years also, and what does Sean Connery have to do with the trade deal.

The UK was somewhat a bit reserved, calling the deal a "framework" and the details will take a long time to iron out.

Who are these car companies building plants in the US, and how did they manage to:

1. Locate the land.
2. Negotiate a sale/lease agreement for the land/location.
3. Design the plant.
4. Hire a design firm to design the plant.
5. Finish the design and get internal approval and permits.
6. Hire people.
7. Start construction

All in about 4 weeks.

Also he said that grocery prices are down and things have been amazing. 😭 But whatever is not going right, is Biden's fault.
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
I have been hearing two different nouns from different people of both nations:

Deal,

Agreement.

We learnt this morning, on the Today programme, that there is an important difference between them. A deal is normally temporary, often quite short-term. An agreement is designed for longevity.

So is it a deal or an agreement?

And is it fair or all one-sided, tilting Westwards?

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What's Mr. T. waffling about anyway? Does he not know that much of Britain's car manufacturing was bought by American firms like GM, and Ford established factories of their own here, a very long time ago?

......

Had he not reduced his tariffs on imports from the UK:

3) He could have bought a Rolls-Royce or a Bentley, paid the import-tax as well as normal retail price in the USA, and so helped RR, the US agent and his own nation's Treasury!
FreddieUK · 70-79, M
@ArishMell
What's Mr. T. waffling about anyway?

Question of the century 🤣
SunshineGirl · 36-40, F
@ArishMell It is a deal, not an agreement (in the sense of the agreement reached with India yesterday). The President does not have the authority to approve a binding trade agreement. That must be passed by Congress.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@SunshineGirl I see. Thankyou . I had the impression this President is not too worried about such niceties, though.