Six years ago, after ripping up the North American Free Trade Agreement, which had endured since 1994, Donald Trump hailed the bipartisan US–Mexico–Canada Agreement that he demanded as a replacement as the best trade deal ever and the reason he entered politics:
Hailing the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement as “a colossal victory for our farmers, ranchers, energy workers, factory workers and American workers in all 50 states,” Trump used an event on the White House South Lawn to demonstrate his successes even amid an impeachment trial.
“The USMCA is the largest, fairest, most balanced and modern trade agreement ever achieved. There’s never been anything like it,” Trump said.
…“This is something we really put our heart into. It’s probably the No. 1 reason that I decided to lead this crazy life that I’m leading right now as opposed to that beautiful, simple life of luxury that I lived before this happened,” Trump said during the ceremony [Kevin Liptak, “Trump Highlights Trade Win amid Impeachment,” CNN, 2020.01.29].
Evidently NAFTA worked longer than its replacement. Trump is already tired of USMCA:
The Trump administration has decided not to renew its trilateral trade pactwith Canada and Mexico, instead opting to conduct annual reviews of the treaty that President Donald Trump once called “the best agreement we’ve ever made.”
The widely anticipated decision on the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, known as USMCA, was revealed Wednesday, the deadline for the three North American trade partners to determine whether they would renew their agreement for another 16-year term.
The decision means the USMCA will stay in effect for another decade, provided no member tries to withdraw from it. But it also triggers yearly reviews that could result in the renegotiation of major parts of the treaty.
…Trump’s enthusiasm for USMCA has recently waned, coinciding with mounting strain on the U.S. relationships with its two neighbors.
“I don’t know that I’m going to renew it,” Trump said of USMCA in June. “We don’t need anything that Canada has. We don’t need anything that Mexico has, but they need everything that we have. And they have to treat us better” [Kevin Breuninger, “U.S. Won’t Renew USMCA, Opening Door for Negotiations with Canada and Mexico,” CNBC, 2026.07.01].
Gee, in April, we needed $35 billion worth of goods from Canada and $51 billion from Mexico, compared to less than $20 billion from China. Canada and Mexico provided more than a quarter of the $300 billion in goods that we imported in April. It sounds to me like USMCA has been bringing us all sorts of things we need.
What can you say the idiot brings down everything and claims victory. He causes problems with his direct tax on the American people in the form of tarriffs. His base with the brain power of puppy dogs doesn’t even get it. There are too many blithering idiots who support the blithering idiot in chief.