David Pakman
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Once Donald Trump says we're out, if only to have leverage for future negotiations.
So great.
It's open.
I think that that that's a great thing, but it never should have been closed in the first place to quote Trump.
It never should have happened as he likes to say.
I'm so glad you brought that up because I did a breakdown last week of what was in the original 2015 deal, which was a terrible deal according to Donald Trump.
It didn't make sense.
Obama shouldn't have signed it, etc.,
And the administration by their own admissions were struggling to get even back to the full strength of that deal.
Uh, and it's, I mean, it's, it's beyond parody.
It would be, it would make sense to laugh if it weren't also tragic and so serious.
And at the end of this rainbow, what we hopefully would have
is something that resembles 80 or 90% of the original Iran nuclear deal.
And so this, this kind of goes back to something that's an important prism when analyzing anything Trump does, which is he wants to take Obama and Biden's names off of things.
I mean, we think about replacing NAFTA with the USMCA and there are some differences in there about
the percentage of vehicles and parts that can be made in Canada, us and Mexico.
But it's basically a recreation of NAFTA with a different name and slightly different parameters.
This is the exact same thing all over again.
And, um, we,