United States President Donald Trump proclaimed on Inauguration Day “America first, America first, America first.” He has pledged that all further trade deals will involve this idea and will get all other nations to only buy American and hire American. What country would agree to that?
Even Trump, as a businessman, understood the important concept of free trade, an exchange between a foreign buyer and a foreign seller. This is what he did with his billion-dollar Trump Hotel brand.
Here is an illustration that looks at the global origins of the products inside of a standard Trump Hotel (courtesy of the American Enterprise Institute):
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