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Donald Trump imposed additional global tariffs this week—but is there a governing theory to how the president is carrying out his trade policy? Panelists on Washington Week With The Atlantic joined to discuss Trump’s latest trade announcements and how they may affect the U.S. economy.
Meanwhile, Trump has said he will meet with Vladimir Putin next week in Alaska to talk about ending Russia’s war in Ukraine. “The Biden-era mantra of ‘Nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine’ is now ancient history under the Trump administration,” Vivian Salama, a staff writer at The Atlantic, said last night. Although this once meant that “you cannot negotiate the future of Ukraine without Ukraine at the table,” she continued, “that’s out of the question.”
“Obviously, it puts the Ukrainians in a very difficult position because they basically have lost, first, their sovereignty to the war, and then again to the Trump administration essentially twisting their arm,” Salama said.
Joining the editor in chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, to discuss this and more: Jonathan Karl, the chief Washington correspondent at ABC News; Tyler Pager, a White House correspondent at The New York Times; Jonathan Lemire, a staff writer at The Atlantic and a co-host of Morning Joe on MSNBC; and Vivian Salama, a staff writer at The Atlantic.
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