BTRTN: Storm and Grunge
Tariffs and trysts and Cohns and Cohens dominate another typical Trump week...as his numbers drop.
http://www.borntorunthenumbers.com/2018/03/btrtn-storm-and-grunge.html
"...you might have thought a five-alarm fire had broken out at the Chamber of Commerce with the reaction, as businessmen and staunch Republicans belched smoke about the negative impact such nativist moves would have on the U.S. economy. Why even meek Paul Ryan himself took the unusual step of opposing Trump on the tariffs, which was previously thought to be congenitally impossible. In fact, politicians in Washington finally agreed on something, universal condemnation of the proposed tariffs. About the only happy people were, predictably, the CEO’s of steel and aluminum companies…and perhaps a certain constituency in the steel-center Western Pennsylvania, where the 18th District just happens to be holding a hotly-contested special election on March 13 to replace disgraced Republican representative Tim Murphy (more on this race from BTRTN on Monday).
Trump lost Chief Economic Adviser Gary Cohn in the process, one of the few relatively stable domestic advisers in Trumpworld. Cohn had strenuously opposed the tariffs, and all but stood in front of a tank in Tiananmen Square to prevent them, but he lost that battle in the blink of an eye, to a fit of pique. Trump predicted that Cohn would “make another couple of hundred million and then he’s going to maybe come back {to work for Trump in the White House},” torturing English and logic in one fell swoop.
Then that low pressure system that has been annoying Team Trump exploded into the full Stormy Daniels..."
