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Howard Lutnick says many amazing trade deals are coming in 2 weeks: “The next two weeks are going to be weeks for the record books!” pic.twitter.com/rY3aPPgG5u

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) July 20, 2025

The letters are the “deals.”

Trade deals can’t be made for the U.S. without the approval of Congress. 

Trade deals can’t be disregarded unilaterally by the President.

Trump has ignored trade deals he made before, and which Congress had approved. 

No country is going to consider any trade deal with the U.S. as valid as long as Trump is in office.

So this is all just empty verbiage.

It really wouldn’t be “stating an opinion” to report it that way.

To make it concrete:

An entire WSJ article about why US soda-makers don't use cane sugar (spoiler: we don't "make enough" lol) and not a single mention of highly-restrictive US sugar quotas that keep prices here WAY above global levels?

Cmon, man.https://t.co/gj7x14b4km pic.twitter.com/fxFEN6iG88

— Scott Lincicome (@scottlincicome) July 20, 2025

Yeah. Just like this.