Trump Wants Back Into the TPP. Not So Fast, Say Members. - The New York Times

As trade tensions with China escalate, President Trump has found new appeal in a regional trade pact he once called a “rape of our country.” The pact’s members — including some of America’s most stalwart allies — might not make it so easy to come back.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/13/world/asia/trump-tpp-asia.html

U.S. Allies to Sign Sweeping Trade Deal in Challenge to Trump - The New York Times

A group of 11 countries is set to sign a slimmed-down version of the Trans-Pacific Partnership as they try to counter Washington's new protectionism. ....
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/08/world/asia/us-trump-tpp-signed.html

Harley-Davidson laid off 800 people this week -- and its CEO says Trump is partly to blame -- Raw Story

Last year, President Donald Trump hosted executives from Harley-Davidson and praised them as a great American company that would benefit from his aggressive stances on trade. This week, however, Harley-Davidson announced the closure of a plant in Kansas City that will put 800 employees out of work. ....
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/harley-davidson-laid-off-800-people-week-ceo-says-trump-partly-blame/

“Smirking” Davos Elites Find a Silver Lining in President Trump -- Vanity Fair

World leaders are happy to fill the America-shaped vacuum. ....
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/01/davos-elites-find-a-silver-lining-in-president-trump

6 whoppers from Trump's speech -- CNN

CNN analyst John Kirby outlines the biggest untruths, exaggerations and inaccurate boasts from Donald Trump's speech unveiling his new national security strategy. ....
http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/19/opinions/trump-national-security-speech-kirby-opinion/index.html

The Ultimate Hypocrisy? Trump Plan to Renegotiate NAFTA Resembles TPP Deal He Withdrew From

https://democracynow.org - The Trump administration has released their plans for renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement. Observers say they are surprisingly similar to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which Trump withdrew from in one of his first acts as president. As the White House kicks off its "Made in America"-themed week, labor leaders say the new NAFTA plan worsens protections for workers and would be "the ultimate in hypocrisy." "There’s enough vagueness in the descriptions that it’s unclear of the things that simply must be done," says Public Citizen’s Lori Wallach. She also notes that "[Trump] has refused to divest his business interests. He’s refused to disclose what his full investments are in Mexico and Canada."
Interview:

https://youtu.be/1iI4BuZ9v_E

Bernie Sanders on Resisting Trump, Why the Democratic Party is an "Absolute Failure" & More

https://democracynow.org - Last month more than 4,000 people gathered in Chicago for the People’s Summit. Independent senator, former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders delivered the keynote speech. During his speech, he repeatedly criticized the Democratic Party, calling it an "absolute failure," and blaming it for the election of President Trump. "I’m often asked by the media and others: How did it come about that Donald Trump, the most unpopular presidential candidate in the modern history of our country, won the election?" Sanders said. "And my answer is that Trump didn’t win the election; the Democratic Party lost the election. Let us be very, very clear: The current model and the current strategy of the Democratic Party is an absolute failure."
Interview:

https://youtu.be/AqcaGbRkb8k

Trump’s Incredible Shrinking America

My whole life I have taken for granted America’s leadership in the world. America’s might and majesty were cornerstones of international relations, cooperation and diplomacy. We were a beacon and balance to the world. America has been imperfect — sometimes disastrously so — but it always seemed to me bent toward the belief that America and the world could be made more perfect.

Well, that time has come to a close. America is exiting the world stage. Donald Trump is drawing the curtains....
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/05/opinion/trump-paris-climate-accord-nato.html?em_pos=small&emc=edit_ty_20170605&nl=opinion-today&nl_art=4&nlid=78638145&ref=headline&te=1&_r=1

Trump's TPP withdrawal: 5 things to know (CNN)

President Donald Trump has begun carrying out his campaign pledges to undo America's trade ties — starting Monday with executive action to pull the United States out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. ...
http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/23/politics/trump-tpp-things-to-know/index.html

Salon: America’s loss becomes China’s gain: After Donald Trump ditches the TPP, a vacuum will emerge

President-elect Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in part because he appealed to working class voters with his strong anti-free trade rhetoric. Now that his rhetoric is about to be turned into policy, though — starting with Trump pulling America out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership — many of his fellow Republicans are expressing dismay. ...
http://www.salon.com/2016/11/23/americas-loss-becomes-chinas-gain-after-donald-trump-ditches-the-tpp-a-vacuum-will-emerge/

Global Trade: Fact And Fiction (Tom Ashbrook, On Point)

Something new is happening in global trade. It’s declining. After decades where Chinese factories boomed and the trend line was always up, it’s flat and down. Empty, idled container ships. US trade, too - down during a period of economic growth for the first time since World War II. On the campaign trail, trade-bashing is hot. That may be fighting the last war. Some say the great age of globalization is over. This hour On Point, what it means when trade goes flat. — Tom Ashbrook
Interview:
http://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2016/11/03/global-trade-nafta-ceta-tpp

Bernie's Next Revolution: New National Group to Launch to Promote Progressives.

Bernie Sanders returns to the political stage on Wednesday to try to do what no progressive has successfully done in decades—keep alive national grassroots momentum that led millions to support him and his agenda in 2016’s presidential nominating contests.

At 9 PM Eastern, Sanders will address 2,600-plus meetings across the country to lay out the next steps in pushing the nation’s politics toward the progressive left. He will kick off a new group called Our Revolution, which will support like-minded candidates running for office and hold pro-corporate officeholders accountable on key issues.

Pressuring Congress to reject the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact is perhaps the foremost immediate example....
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/bernies-next-revolution-new-national-group-launch-promote-progressives

WikiLeaks' Assange - TPP Not Only Trade, 83% Is Fascists Controlling Our Daily Lives

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange knows more about the contents of the TPP than most members of Congress and is doing much more to inform the American public than any of our so-called representatives with the lone exception of Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL). He has no restrictions other than his politically-motivated confinement to the Ecuadorian Embassy in London on his freedom to disclose the truth to the world and he is sounding the alarm.

Interview:

Barack Obama: Trans-Pacific Partnership eliminates 18,000 tariffs on American goods

Speaking with Singapore Prime Minister Lee Loong, President Barack Obama emphasized America’s renewed commitments to the Asian Pacific region.

It didn’t take long for the conversation to focus on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a 12-country trade deal pending Senate approval that has been highly contentious in the 2016 election. Defending the deal, Obama made several claims regarding its benefits for American workers.

Obama portrayed the deal as having wide-ranging influence — improving American manufacturing by removing tariffs, promoting labor rights in Vietnam and combatting human trafficking in Malaysia.

"Number one, it knocks out 18,000 tariffs that other countries place on American products and goods," he said. "So if everybody agrees that we're going to have lower tariffs, that's good for American businesses and American workers. And we should want that, we should pursue it."

In this fact-check, we’ll look at the claim about tariffs....
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/aug/04/barack-obama/barack-obama-trans-pacific-partnership-eliminates-/

Jeff Sessions - Mostly False: Jeff Sessions says Clinton is 'champion' of global trade deals, including TPP

Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, one of the earliest congressmen to back Donald Trump, echoed Trump’s critique of Hillary Clinton’s trade agenda at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.

"She has been a champion of globalist trade agreements," Sessions said during the convention’s opening night. "But the facts are in. They have not worked for the American people. When those agreements were signed, Presidents (Bill) Clinton and Obama promised our dangerous trade deficits with China and Korea would be reduced. But, the deficit with China has increased fivefold and the deficit with Korea doubled. These are job-killing numbers. They are now pushing the disastrous 5,000-page ‘Obamatrade’ — the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement."...
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/jul/18/jeff-sessions/mostly-false-jeff-sessions-says-clinton-champion-g/