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"Trump: "Leaving NAFTA is inevitable"

President Donald Trump, speaking on Tuesday night in Arizona near the Mexican border, said it looks inevitable the U.S. will pull out of the North American Free Trade Agreement. It’s a now familiar threat -- but no less concerning, given the U.S. just this week wrapped up the first round of negotiations with Mexico and Canada to revise the trade agreement by early next year.

Trump’s comment that “we’ll end up probably terminating Nafta at some point” may add to a lurking fear that he won’t have the patience to see the process through. “The danger is that the president, either with his very short fuse, or his ‘my way or the highway approach”’ will torpedo the talks, Arturo Sarukhan, a former Mexican ambassador to the U.S., said on the sidelines of Nafta talks in Washington.

Read more at The Washington Post

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