Add another to my list of significant people who are beginning to speak out critically of President Trump. The latest is the former chief political correspondent for Fox News, Carl Cameron. I don't know his political persuasion, either now or in the past, but I am sure he did not say things like this on air at Fox News.
According to an interview by MSNBC's Ari Melber Friday, Carl Cameron said that there was not "enough time in the day" to list all the problems President Trump currently faces.
Cameron, who left Fox News two years ago, told Melber Trump's problems are now impacting American's global standing. "We like to think of ourselves as world leaders. The president is not leading. . . . The United States of America's reputation is at stake because the president is being irresponsible and violating our values and our traditions, Cameron said.
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And then Sunday's Wall Street Journal hit the stands, with its editorial highly critical of the president for his escalating trade war with China.
"The trouble with trade wars, like shooting wars," the Journal wrote in its editorial, is that once they start you never know how they're going to end. The enemy gets a vote, and sometimes events escalate in ugly fashion. Take Friday, which saw China retaliate for Donald Trump's recent tariffs, Mr. Trump blow a gasket, markets tank, and Mr. Trump impose even more tariffs."
"The newspaper said Trump then "began tweeting like a bull in a China shop,' and scoffed at his 'order' that American companies no longer have anything to do with the world's second-largest economy.
"'Order? Somebody should tell Chairman Trump that this isn't the People's Republic of America." The editorial then explains that have been trying to shift production out of China to avoid the tariffs; but that supply chains supply chains developed over decades can't be changed overnight, and no other country has China's huge and relatively skilled workforce, infrastructure, and network of suppliers." . . .
"In a final dig, the editorial asks: 'What was that again about trade wars being easy to win?'"
Let me emphasize again: This is the conservative editors of the establishment Republican Wall Street Journal.
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