MEXICO/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “At 8:31 p.m. on Friday [6-7-19] night, a triumphant President Donald Trump declared that the latest crisis of his own making would be averted, promising to hold off on stiff tariffs because Mexico agreed to ‘greatly reduce, or eliminate, Illegal Immigration.’ By Monday [6-10-19], the president’s victory lap had screeched to a halt. As news outlets began chipping away at the agreement’s veneer, pointing out that it wasn’t the game-changer that Trump made it out to be, the president started lashing out, painting himself as a victim and insisting that he’s not getting the credit he deserves. In the span of three days, he fired off more than a dozen angry Twitter messages complaining about media coverage. He promised there was more to the deal than meets the eye, teasing a ‘very important’ part of the agreement that will be ‘revealed in the not too distant future.’ And he called into CNBC for a 27-minute, impromptu interview in which he bashed the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for criticizing his approach to trade negotiations while offering few new details about the deal.”
–Andrew restuccia, “‘He needs some victories’: Trump lashes out over his Mexico deal,” Politico, June 10, 2019 5:17 pm