Top headline: ABC News, 4/25/2025
Bottom headline: New York Times, 5/6/2025
Luke Broadwater reports in the Times:
“Everyone says ‘When, when, when are you going to sign deals?’” Mr. Trump said, at one point motioning toward Howard Lutnick, the commerce secretary. “We don’t have to sign deals. We could sign 25 deals right now, Howard, if we wanted to. We don’t have to sign deals. They have to sign deals with us. They want our market. We don’t want a piece of their market. We don’t care about their market.”
Within days of the April 2 announcement of the widespread tariffs, White House officials said around 70 countries were already calling to strike deals. Mr. Trump’s trade adviser predicted there would be 90 deals in 90 days.
But more than a month later, no such deals have materialized. And the clock is ticking.
Mr. Trump predicted the first deals could be signed this week. But administration officials also made that prediction the week before that, and the week before that.
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