PETER BRUCE: Even a tired Trump won’t let SA’s trade surplus with US slide
President will find rich pickings in steel and aluminium, automobiles, meat and food
13 February 2025 - 05:00
Is Donald Trump already tiring? In his first two weeks back in the White House he was everywhere — signing executive orders, rounding up immigrants, denouncing SA and offering Afrikaners refugee status in the US, laying out plans to occupy Gaza, shutting down whole agencies of the US government and picking a trade war with his close neighbours.
They call it flooding the zone — wherever you look there’s another Trump outrage occurring. He’s renamed the Gulf of Mexico, he’s going to shut down the US department of education. ..
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