For G-7, Trump’s racism and misogyny are ok, but his trade policies are intolerable
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(Lori Wallach from Public Citizen) June 8, 2018
U.S. President Donald Trump seems as welcome at the G-7 picnic as a rabid skunk.
Most G-7 leaders have worked to build warm relationships with Trump, despite his xenophobia, racism, misogyny, climate denialism, warmongering and corrupt business self-dealing. But apparently, taking on the trade status quo was a bridge too far.
That is a bitter irony, given that the trade and financial policies that the G-7 has relentlessly promoted created the political context that helped to make Trump president. Decades of U.S. presidents from both parties and their G-7 counterparts have pushed international economic policies that have created expansive new rights and powers for multinational corporations and hurt working people.
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