Sunday, August 28, 2016

Brexit With Tiffany

   The candidate last week cozied up to Nigel Farage, a leader of the campaign to have Britain leave the European Union.
  At a rally in Mississippi, Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for President, praised Farage, former leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), as the man largely responsible for the Brexit vote, and suggested that a similar effort is in store for the U.S. "They will soon be calling me Mr. Brexit," Trump tweeted.
   In the context of Trump's repeated calls for renegotiating U.S. trade deals with other countries, particularly the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and warning of the supposed dangers of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), it would be no surprise if he named a family member to talk with Farage about strategy in leaving international trade partnerships and how to rewrite or tear up existing contracts.
   Not that Trump needs any advice on the latter, since his business career is loaded with examples of doing just that. That is, after all, a Trump tradition, as detailed in his book, "The Art of the Deal."
   Who better, then, to carry on the family tradition than daughter Tiffany, newly graduated and in need of a job?
  That's how Trump got his start, learning at his own father's elbow how to build and expand the family business.
   Now it's time to sharpen the elbows of a new generation, this time on an international level. And the most likely candidate to take the deal-making art to an international level could be Tough Tiffany, as she might become known from her strong negotiating tactics, learned from her father's example. She has already made her name known, introducing Daddy Don at the Republican National Convention when he was nominated.
   So with name recognition and her father's support, young Tiffany could well be named to the post of chief international trade representative, charged with building a new Business Fortress America, immune to such trivial details as complex trade treaties.
   After all, if there are no trade agreements, or just a few that overwhelmingly favor the U.S., then experience won't matter.
   Total lack of experience in government, politics, diplomacy or international relations hasn't stopped Trump from rising to the top of the Republican Party.
   Why should it stop or even slow young Tiffany?

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