{"id":4244,"date":"2026-03-02T23:28:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T23:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/?p=4244"},"modified":"2026-03-02T23:28:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T23:28:39","slug":"liberals-whine-about-trumps-historic-trade-deal-with-european-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/?p=4244","title":{"rendered":"Liberals Whine About Trump\u2019s \u2018Historic\u2019 Trade Deal With European Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1861172\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>What emerged from those tense negotiations was not a symbolic handshake but a structural shift in the Western economy. Trump secured a flat 15% auto tariff, wider access for U.S. agriculture, and a pledge of up to $750 billion in American energy purchases, plus $600 billion in broader European investment. For a continent once \u201chooked on cheap Russian gas,\u201d as former EU Ambassador Gordon Sondland put it, the signal could not be clearer: Europe is re-aligning its energy lifeline toward the United States and away from Moscow.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-4\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1861172\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The political shockwaves are just as dramatic. Critics on CNN frame the deal as a warning shot to countries like China: make a deal or face a trade war. MSNBC voices openly wish Brussels had \u201cplayed cat and mouse\u201d longer, a tacit admission that Trump dictated the pace. Behind the public grumbling, however, both sides know something fundamental has changed. The United States didn\u2019t just avoid a clash with Europe; it walked away with leverage, markets, and a rare, grudging chorus of acknowledgment that, this time, Trump got exactly what he wanted.<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What emerged from those tense negotiations was not a symbolic handshake but a structural shift in the Western economy. Trump secured a flat 15% auto tariff, wider access for U.S. &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4246,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244\/revisions\/4246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}