FALSE! There's lots of examples of Trump successfully negotiating with foreign leaders.
1. Trump pressured European delinquent scofflaws into paying their agreed upon shares in NATO.
2. Trump brokered a peace agreement between Sudan and Israel – the third such agreement between Israel and an Arab-Muslim nation in less than three months. (Bahrain, UAE)
3. Trump negotiated and signed the historic United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (MCA), replacing the disasterous, outsourcing Clinton-era North American Free Trade Agreement.
4. After years of failed negotiations, Trump proposed a new way of bridging the divide between Serbia & Kosovo. By focusing on job creation and economic growth, the two countries were able to reach a real breakthrough on economic cooperation across a broad range of issues.
5. Trump successfully negotiated the normalization of ties between Kosovo and Israel, and the establishment of diplomatic relations.
6. Trump got Serbia to open a commercial office in Jerusalem, and to move its embassy to Jerusalem.
7. Trump negotiated and signed 2 "Agriculture and Digital Trade Agreements with Japan, eliminating or reduce tariffs on about $7.2 billion in United States agricultural exports, including beef, pork, poultry, wheat, cheese, wine ethanol, and more. Upon implementation, more than 90 percent of U.S. agricultural imports into Japan became duty-free or got preferential tariff access.
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8. Trump enacted a law that requires the State Department to punish Chinese officials who bar American officials, journalists and other citizens from going freely to Tibetan areas in China’s far west.
9. Trump enacted a new law requiring the U.S. to impose sanctions on foreigners, foreign companies and foreign government agencies found supporting Hezbollah or a number of entities related to it, including its financial agency, its foreign-relations department and its media arm.
10. Trump welcomed FIFA's newest president Gianni Infantino to the White House, where Trump hailed the upcoming 2026 World Cup games as being a "very important and special event."
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11. As for denuclearization, when Trump was president, relations between North Korea & the US were good and Kim stopped firing test missles. When Biden took over, the peaceful climate ended, and missles started up again. Trump also negotiated a peace between North & South Korea.
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12. Argentina agreed to allow pork product imports from the US, in 2017, for the first time since 1992.
13. Trump signed into law legislation cutting some aid to Palestine, until they end stipends to terrorists and the families of slain attackers, Included was
the Taylor Force Act, which was named after a former US army officer who was stabbed to death by a Palestinian terrorist while visiting Tel Aviv.
14. Trump expanded US oil exports by negotiating for crude oil exports to India.
15. Trump secured & finalized terms of a sugar trade pact with Mexico, to resolve a years-long dispute. The sugar deal, which was reworked from a lopsided 2014 pact, averts imposition of large duties on U.S. imports of Mexican sugar, while also addressing U.S. industry demands for protection from cheap, subsidized sugar from its top foreign supplier.
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Lawmakers hope to force China to lift the travel restrictions, which they say are meant to conceal abuses of Tibetans’ human rights.
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The United States and Mexico on Wednesday finalized terms of a sugar trade pact that seeks to resolve a years-long dispute between the governments before a North American trade deal is renegotiated.
www.reuters.com
FIFA's Infantino arrived to the White House after a successful North America bid for the 2026 World Cup games
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https://magapill.comhttps://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-president-of-fifa-gianni-infantino-meeting-today-2018-08-28-live-stream/
(This version of the Aug. 17 story, corrects 6th paragraph to 1.25 million metric tons valued at $3.21 billion not 200,229 metric tonnes valued at $527.1 million.)
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