The trade war with China is top strand in the White House soap | Larry Elliott
by Larry Elliott from Economics | The Guardian on (#48XBE)
Donald Trump may be a ham actor but he's got the whole world on tenterhooks now
Art is supposed to hold a mirror up to society butfor Donald Trump the opposite is the case. Current events in the White House increasingly mirror the soap opera of the West Wing only with a rightwing nationalist rather than a social democratic globalist at the helm.
As with the TV series, there are a number of interwoven plots. Is Trump involved in an attempt to smear the world's richest man, Jeff Bezos? Will the probing by the special counsel Robert Mueller lead to the president's impeachment? Will the president's battle with Congress over a wall along the border with Mexico lead to a second shutdown of the government?
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