Stable Genius
I will be signing our very large and comprehensive Phase One Trade Deal with China on January 15. The ceremony will take place at the White House. High level representatives of China will be present. At a later date I will be going to Beijing where talks will begin on Phase Two!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 31, 2019
Uh-huh. Imma old enough to remember all the other times Prznint Art-of-the-Deal pulled this grift, my favorite being the break-through phone call with China that never happened.
I’m putting some quatloos down that if whatever this thing is happens on January 15 that it gives China an advantage. Any takers?
Mock Paper Scissors 
They’re going to give him a huge dossier on “Joseph Briden” who will turn out to be a crude copy of the real thing, that shorts our and starts a small fire in the White house.
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Fool me a hundred times…
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From the WaPo of 12/14:
“It’s better to have a truce on the trade front than not, but it would be better still to have actually achieved fundamental progress after 17 months of costly and destabilizing conflict, the burden of which has fallen on U.S. farmers, consumers and manufacturers. That has not happened, apparently. The administration said the Chinese agreed to “structural reforms and other changes to China’s economic and trade regime in the areas of intellectual property, technology transfer, agriculture, financial services, and currency and foreign exchange,” which sounds like a version of the relatively superficial adjustments Mr. Trump announced — and quickly retracted — in October.”
I can’t find any source that’s fresher than the middle of Dec, but I’ve been seeing hints here and there that once again he’s being played, like a big, fat trout. He capitulated to many of their demands while gaining very little in the way of concessions from them for our farmers and others who have been hit the hardest by these unnecessary and harmful tariffs.
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I just hope Ivanka gets to keep her Chinese patents.
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Maybe the Chinese can keep Ivanka?!!
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Hey, Donnie, whoever authored this “tweet” forgot to use YOUR “Very Perfect” vernacular ah, This will be a Very Perfect phone, oops, Trade Deal??
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But, but, the stock market is going up Up UP. (In preparation for the big fall?)
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