Donald Trump is busy handing out huge tariffs to our trading partners in Asia. In the meantime, Marco Rubio is attempting to strengthen our security ties with them. Now that’s a tough job!
Trump clearly believes he can bully nations all over the world into accepting our leadership. The idea that they might decide to ally themselves with China instead appears not to have occurred to him. The analogy to Kaiser Wilhelm II and his “diplomacy” becomes more compelling every day.
Rubio’s problems, however, are nothing compared to those of the Secretary of Agriculture, who must concurrently assure the base that illegal immigrant farmworkers are going to Alligator Alcatraz and promise Trump-friendly farmers that those same workers are safe from deportation. Expect lots of bobbing and weaving from the administration–loud blustering followed by quiet inaction.