Over the weekend, the United States and China took a step back from their economic brinkmanship and reached a 90-day trade deal that rolled back much of the tariffs both sides were planning to levy on each other. But instead of portraying it as a victory for America as the Trump administration negotiated better trade deals, ABC’s Good Morning America treated it as though the pain of tariffs was the point, suggested Trump was just routed by China in a “dramatic retreat.”
“And this is a breakthrough in talks between the world’s two largest economies, but it’s also a dramatic retreat from President Trump’s 145 percent tariffs that he imposed on Chinese imports,” proclaimed ABC senior political correspondent Rachel Scott. “After all of the tough talk and hard lines, both sides agreeing to dramatically roll back their tariffs, at least for…
