Reagan was Right
l3wis For at least 5 minutes in April of 1987 he was right;
So this video posted 6 months ago. Recently the Canadians used some lines from it in a TV ad over the trade war. The Supreme Court will decide soon whether Trump’s tariffs were legal without congressional approval. I’m with Reagan on what he is talking about (watch the entire video) he basically doesn’t like them and thinks they contributed to the Great Depression. Reagan was an economics major in college. Reagan supported targeted tariffs, as do I, to get American consumers to buy American products, so you would target that specific product with a tariff instead of a blanket one with every product from a specific country like Trump is doing. Reagan was referencing this in the video with semi-conductors. He wanted American manufacturing to buy American conductors instead of cheaper Japanese ones.
As for the Reagan foundation saying they didn’t get permission to use the clip, that point is moot, it is a public document, anybody can use it, even a foreign government. Also, there was NO creative editing in the AD, they just simply played a few lines from the address about the pertinent dangers of tariffs, like isolationism, inflation and high unemployment (it’s coming folks!)
EAST WING WENT BYE BYE
I love how Trump’s Press Secretary is tasked each day with revisionist history. They are claiming Truman’s remodel of the White House was no different then this. Hogwash. Truman was going to take a leak in the middle of the night and he heard a crack under the floorboards in his bedroom. They discovered that after adding the 3rd floor without reinforcing floors 1 & 2 caused the floor beams to start cracking and breaking. Truman had no choice but to remodel or the place was going to fall into itself. There was the controversy of adding the balcony, but it wasn’t a gold plated ballroom double the size of the current white house. I have said that the next president needs to undo all of this in the last year of their first term. I would auction off the ballroom in pieces, make the buyers responsible for removal and take the money raised to rebuild the East Wing to original standards but modernized. I would also restore the rose garden. Trump has done enough damage to this country and it’s reputation we don’t need any reminders of him after he has left the Whitehouse.
I think in Germany after WWII they have some law where you can’t talk about Hitler or Nazis or something. . . just an idea.
