Hi there, everybody, happy Friday.

It's now four o'clock in New York.

A handful of people called it ambitious.

Many, many, many more called it reckless or absurd

or plain foolish or unnecessary. But Trump went about it anyway, promising 90

deals in 90 days.

They said a hostile reforging of the global economy in which other countries would, in

their telling, trip all over themselves for the opportunity to hash out new trade deals

with the U.S.

Now, though, well, more than halfway through that timeline,

and what exactly does the U.S. have to show for it?

Well, the framework of a deal with the U.K., I guess,

a preliminary deal with China, maybe,

a handshake agreement forged in Geneva that Trump now insists

China has violated. Quote, so much for being Mr. Nice Guy, he posted on social media this morning,

which is amazing at every level. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent addressed the negotiations a short

time later. Watch.

They are a bit stalled. I believe that we will be having more talks with them in the next few weeks.

And I believe we may at some point have a call between the president and party chair she.

I am confident that the Chinese will come to the table when President Trump makes his

preferences known.

So, so far from 90 deals in 90 days, One, in the words of the Treasury Secretary,

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