Trump and Starmer put lipstick on a pig of a trade deal

M\nore than a month after Donald Trump set the global economy on fire to rebalance America’s trade relationship with the entire world, the self-proclaimed master negotiator has finally struck his first deal.Given that the entire premise of Trump’s tariff gambit was that countries were “taking advantage” of the United States, it might come as a surprise that his first agreement was with one of the few countries with which the U.S. has a trade surplus.The president did not let that small detail spoil the celebration.“We have a big economic security blanket, and that's very important, and we feel very, very ..