Trump trashes Germany and NATO in his opening salvo at the NATO summit in Brussels:
“Germany, as far as I’m concerned, is captive to Russia because it’s getting so much of its energy from Russia,” Trump told NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, in a fiery on-camera exchange that was nearly without precedent in the history of the post-World War II alliance.
“We have to talk about the billions and billions of dollars that’s being paid to the country we’re supposed to be protecting you against,” Trump said, referring to European purchases of Russian natural gas.
That boy ain’t right.
It’s a DAIRY DISASTA! Not my words, the words of a Veep with the National Chamber of Commerce. Thanks to Trump’s tariffs on steel and aluminum, Mexico has imposed 25% tariffs on American cheese and dairy products. This will not, um, play well in the midwest. The grim statistics:
How significant are U.S. cheese exports to Mexico? Check out these facts from USDEC:
- Mexico is the No. 1 U.S. cheese export market.
- In 2017, the United States held a 75% share of Mexico’s cheese import market.
- U.S. cheese shipments to Mexico were valued at $391 million last year.
- Last year’s U.S. cheese exports to Mexico increased 8% in value over 2016.
- Mexico accounts for 28% of total U.S. cheese exports.
- U.S. suppliers shipped 96,413 tons of cheese to Mexico in 2017.
- Over the last decade, both the volume and value of U.S. cheese exports to Mexico have nearly tripled.
All of this is in jeopardy due to Trump’s tariffs on Mexico. Somewhere, Vlad the Impaler smiles.
Here’s what Obama has been doing, and will be doing, throughout the election season.
Trump Vs. The Breast-Feeders: Part Deux.
Trump To Immigrant Moms: Pay for DNA tests or you’ll never see your kids again.
Finally, as an antidote to this relentless depressing litany, .the article you didn’t know you wanted to read. Yes, I must be speaking, of course, about the origin story of one of music’s greatest guilty pleasures, that ode to ‘nooners’, ‘Afternoon Delight’ by the Starland Vocal Band. Oh, and to send you off humming that tune and perhaps providing some inspiration for later on, here is one of my fave bands providing their interpretation:
