In This Episode
Trump spends the weekend picking fights with our biggest trading partner (Mexico) and our closest ally (the U.K.), the mass shooting in Virginia Beach puts gun control proposals back in the spotlight, and the Democratic candidates for president descend on California to make their case. Then London Mayor Sadiq Khan talks to Tommy about Trump’s U.K. visit, and Cherokee journalist and activist Rebecca Nagle talks to Tommy about her new podcast, This Land.
Show Notes:
Trump’s New Trade Tax
- NYT: Trump Says U.S. Will Hit Mexico With 5% Tariffs on All Goods
- NYT: Trump Is Said to Have Overruled Kushner and Other Aides in Threatening Mexico With Tariffs
- WSJ: Trump Threatens Tariffs on Mexican Imports in Response to Migrant Surge
- HuffPo: Trump’s Threatened Mexican Tariffs A ‘Molotov Cocktail,’ Warns Manufacturers Group
- NYT: A New Threat From Trump and Old Questions About Its Effectiveness
- WaPo: Trump officials say Mexico needs to act quickly on immigration to avoid tariffs
- WaPo: Trump’s stunning decision to escalate trade wars with China and Mexico signals a turning point for U.S. policy
- WaPo: Republicans wave the white flag on tariffs (again)
- CNBC: Mexican president hints at migration concessions to avoid Trump tariffs
Who will pay for this?
- NYT: What Are Mexico’s Biggest Exports to the United States?
- WaPo: A guide to Trump’s tariffs: What they are, how they work and whom they’ll affect
- WaPo: As Mexico becomes America’s top source of imported goods, here are the products that could be most hit by Trump’s tariffs
- Bloomberg: Trump’s Mexico Tariffs Are Borderline Crazy – Beyond the obvious economic damage, the move would threaten the U.S.’s stature as a diplomatic partner globally
- NY Mag: The Trade War Is Getting Big Enough to Hurt the Economy
- Texas Tribune: Trump’s tariffs could hurt Texas, U.S. economies as much as Mexico’s, border leaders and analysts say
- The Verge: DONALD TRUMP’S WAR ON CARS IS PUSHING THE US CLOSER TO A RECESSION
- USA Today: Dow, stocks end lower on threat of tariffs on Mexican imports and recession fear
- AP: Trump tariff threats alarm Mexico growers, economists
- Detroit Free Press: GM would be hit hardest if Trump imposes tariffs on Mexico
- Vox: Trump’s new plan to tax Mexican imports, explained
What Trump wants from Mexico
- Fortune: Trump Tariffs Will Hurt Lower Income Americans Above All: Economists
- Think Progress: U.S. farmers caught in Trump’s escalated trade war with China and Mexico
What are the potential consequences?
- WaPo: Trump’s stunning decision to escalate trade wars with China and Mexico signals a turning point for U.S. policy
- New Yorker: Trump’s Crazy Mexico Tariff Is Stoking a Meltdown on Wall Street
- NYT Upshot: The New Tariffs Against Mexico Signal the U.S. Isn’t a Reliable Negotiating Partner
- NYT: How Trump’s Trade War Is Being Fought Around the World – Mexico, China, Japan, Europe, Canada: The White House’s various conflicts add up to a broad assault on a postwar effort to build economic ties around the world
- NYT: As Trade War Spreads to Mexico, Companies Lose a Safe Harbor
Could this jeopardize Trump’s perceived strength and can it work?
- CNN: Americans have turned against Trump on trade
- CNN: Here’s the next political truism that Trump might overturn
- WaPo: The economics of red and blue aren’t quite as lopsided as you might think
- Politico: Trump’s tariff war leaves allies fretting about losing strong economy
Immigration in Trump’s re-election bid
- WaPo: Shutdowns, emergencies and tariffs: Trump’s frenetic immigration approach has become central to his 2020 bid
- WaPo: Power Up: Trump declares two-front war on trade and immigration
- NYT: Deceased G.O.P. Strategist’s Hard Drives Reveal New Details on the Census Citizenship Question
- WaPo: A Republican operative figured a citizenship question on the census would help Republicans. Here’s how
- Mother Jones: Architect of GOP Gerrymandering Was Behind Trump’s Census Citizenship Question
- CNN: How the GOP’s shady plan to help elect white Republicans works
- Axios: Trump’s war on global trade
- WaPo: Trump’s reliance on pressure tactics is showing diminishing returns
- WaPo: A trade war with Mexico is more serious — and more political — than you might think
How should Democrats respond?
- WaPo: Democrats cannot duck a fight with Trump on trade forever – Plum Line – by Greg Sargent
- NYT: Pelosi Slow-Walks Trump’s New Nafta Deal
- Politico: How Trump’s Mexico tariffs could scare Democrats away from his trade deal
- Vox: The big divide among 2020 Democrats over trade — and why it matters – Democrats are on the brink of completely reorienting their party on trade
- The New Republic: Democrats Already Have a Position on Tariffs… If You Know Where to Look
- WaPo: Democrats should be shouting Trump’s trade failures from the rooftops
- Council on Foreign Relations: Democrats Won’t Win by Being Trump Lite on Trade
- Vox: Trump wants to pass his trade deal. But he’s not acting like it
- CNN: Somebody should tell Democrats they’ve become the free trade party
- NYT – U.S. Promises Security Aid, but No Funds, to Guatemala to Curb Migration
Why is Trump in the UK?
- The Sunday Times – Donald Trump interview: ‘Jeremy Corbyn is making a mistake if he’s not America’s friend’
- CNN: Trump shatters diplomatic etiquette on eve of UK visit
- Politico: Trump backs no-deal Brexit – US president says trade deal with UK could be done ‘very quickly.’
- Guardian: Trump backs Boris Johnson and calls Meghan, Duchess of Sussex ‘nasty’
- WaPo: The Latest: Trump says he may meet with Boris Johnson
What’s the current state of politics in the UK?
- BBC: Tory leadership: Who will replace Theresa May?
- Reuters: Race to succeed UK PM May centers on ‘no deal’ Brexit battle
What are the potential consequences of no deal Brexit?
- NYT: Brexit ‘Red Lines’ Became a Trap for Theresa May
- WSJ: ‘No Deal’ Brexit Returns to Forefront of Debate
- BBC: No-deal Brexit: The five questions everyone is googling
- NYT: Where Europe Would Be Hurt Most by a No-Deal Brexit
- NYT: What Would a No-Deal Brexit Look Like?
- NYT: ‘No Deal’ Brexit Finding Favor With British Conservatives
Further Reading
- The Observer: It’s un-British to roll out the red carpet for Donald Trump
- CNN: Trump is a ‘global threat,’ says Mayor of London, ahead of US President’s visit
- NYT: Trump State Visit to U.K. Faces Turbulence Amid Brexit Chaos
- Axios: London mayor compares Trump to “fascists of the 20th century”
- WaPo: As Trump’s state visit looms, Britain seems a reluctant host
- BBC: Trump: Prepare for no deal and send in Farage
- CNN: Trump tells UK he ‘wouldn’t pay’ $50 billion Brexit divorce bill
- The Guardian – Sadiq Khan has 24-hour police protection after repeated threats
- Politico: Ahead of Trump state visit, it’s déjà-U.K. all over again
- BBC: Donald Trump should not be given state visit says Sadiq Khan
- CNBC – Trump encourages no-deal Brexit ahead of state visit, offers Britain trade deal with US
- BBC: ULEZ, Crossrail and constraint: Khan’s three years in charge
- BBC: Brexit ‘causing’ more British nationals to become Irish
- NYT: John Cleese Suggests London Isn’t ‘Really an English City’
Virginia Shooting
- WaPo: Twelve people killed in shooting at Virginia Beach municipal complex, police say
- WaPo: DeWayne Craddock, a longtime Virginia Beach employee, identified as shooter who killed 12 in city building
- CNN: New details emerge in the Virginia Beach mass shooting that left 12 people dead
- WaPo: ‘Suddenly, a kind of hole exploded in my wall.’ Pop-pops and then duck for cover.
- WaPo: Remembering the victims of the Virginia Beach mass shooting
- NYT: Gunman in Virginia Beach Shooting Planned to Quit City Job, Officials Say
- New Yorker – The Startling Image of a Blood-Spattered Victim of the Virginia Beach Shooting
- NPR: Virginia Beach Shooting Survivor Says Victim Laid Down His Life To Save Colleagues
- The Intercept – Mass Shootings, Dinner, and the Cognitive Dissonance of Just Living in America
- Axios: The deadliest mass shootings in modern U.S. history
- The Guardian – A mass shooting couldn’t happen in Virginia Beach … until it did
The Virginia GOP stopping gun control bills
Democratic gun control policies
- NYT: Gun Issues, Long at the Fringe, Now Loom Large for Democratic Candidates
- CNN: Booker makes clear how he differs from Biden on gun licensing
- CNN: Cory Booker unveils ‘sweeping’ but ‘simple’ gun violence prevention plan
- NYT – Kamala Harris Proposes Executive Orders on Gun Control
- Politico: Kamala Harris’ next target: Banning AR-15-style assault weapons
- Denver Post: Hickenlooper is latest Democrat to make guns a priority in 2020 presidential race
- ABC News – Here’s how the 2020 Democrats differ on gun control
- Vogue: Taking a Stand: What the 2020 Democratic Candidates Plan to Do About Gun Violence
- Politico: Michael Bennet after shooting: McConnell must act
Dems in CA this weekend
- WaPo: The Trailer: No lock on California for Sen. Kamala Harris, even as liberals scramble for an alternative to Joe Biden
- AP: Warren tells Dem activists ‘time for small ideas is over’
- LA Times – At California convention, Democratic candidates unite in bashing Trump but squabble over issues
- WSJ: Kamala Harris Faces Primary Challenges in California – Attendees at the state’s Democratic Party convention also gave enthusiastic receptions to Sens. Warren and Booker
- Vox: Democratic presidential candidates call for change at California’s Democratic Party Convention
- Politico: ‘I’m not a Bernie Bro’: Sanders’ base splinters in California
- San Francisco Chronicle: Several thousand pack Oakland soccer field to hear Elizabeth Warren
- San Francisco Chronicle: 2020 Democrats impress San Francisco audience with ‘big ideas’
- Vanity Fair – ELIZABETH WARREN’S PITCH TO WIN CALIFORNIA: ANTI-TECH CLASS WARFARE
Elizabeth Warren Highlights
- WaPo: Warren pledges to reverse Justice policy that prevents indicting sitting presidents
- Vanity Fair – CHARLAMAGNE THA GOD CALLS ELIZABETH WARREN “THE ORIGINAL RACHEL DOLEZAL” IN TENSE INTERVIEW
- AP: With Biden absent, his rivals pounce at California gathering
- WaPo: Liberals go after Joe Biden, trying to blunt his presidential candidacy and the recent centrist surge in the Democratic Party
- Bloomberg: It’s Knives Out for Biden as Other Democrats Look for a Foothold
- FiveThirtyEight – Is Biden’s Bounce Over?
- USA Today: Biden faces stiff criticism from Democrats for skipping California convention
- WaPo: Can Joe Biden be the future and the past?
What else stood out?
- WaPo: A Democratic 2020 contender denounces socialism — and gets booed
- The Hill – Protester takes mic from Kamala Harris while onstage at event
Primary calendar/ dynamic
- NYT: California Is Now an ‘Early Primary State.’ Democrats Are Grappling With How to Compete
- Vox: The new, crucial role the California primary could have in 2020, explained
- NPR: California, Rich In Delegates, Takes On New Importance For Crowded Democratic Field
- ABC News – 2020 Democratic presidential candidates hope to strike gold in California
- Bloomberg – California Primary Becomes a Tantalizing Prize for 2020 Democrats
- LA Times – There’s some mystery to how presidential hopefuls get on California’s primary ballot
- USA Today: California’s primary is way earlier in 2020. Is that good for Democrats?
- LA Times – Think California’s too big and influential? Wait until the presidential race heats up
Social media’s impact on Iowa and New Hampshire
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