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Last week saw a flurry of activity from the Trump White House on the foreign policy front as the administration announced new steel and aluminum tariffs on our allies and the summit with North Korea was a go.
On NBC News’ Sunday Today, anchor Willie Geist and Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd closed out their political coverage by chiding President Trump. They sided with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau who claimed common sense was no longer about of the current U.S. administration. The pair also suggested that the North Korean summit in Singapore wouldn’t be anything more than just another photo-op.
“Before I let you run Chuck, the G7 this week in Canada of all places on a week when the President of the United States and the White House instituted tariffs on steel and aluminum against our allies, including Canada,” Geist prefaced. “You sat down with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. It seems to me, in the bits I’ve seen of your interview, he has begun to lose diplomatic patience with this president.”
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