[1andrew1]

Interesting thought piece on a UK-US trade deal from Sky News. My thought is that Trump may not be around when we leave the EU!

The US president sees the world as a zero sum game. He wins, others lose.
Of course, in the world of "Yes, but", there are those who will say he has a soft spot for the UK because his mother was Scottish and he has a golf course there.
But he used to like Jeff Sessions as well.
The man he called "a great guy", "the gold standard", "a man of integrity, a man of principle and a man of total, utter resolve" became the man, appointed as Attorney-General by him, who he subjected to the most remarkable presidential bullying.
So, Trump's your best mate until it is not in his interest.
And what is Trump's priority from any trade deals anyway?
He campaigned - and won the election - on among other things, creating jobs for American workers. He continues to rail against countries he believes have been ripping off the US over trade for years.
Why should we think he will suddenly sign off the sort of win-win he doesn't believe exists?
A couple of weeks ago Trump told the world that his favourite word is "reciprocity". We haven't yet seen the evidence that he also likes the concept.
And all of this assumes we can take any Trump statement at face value. Not long ago, the New York Times filled a full broadsheet page with tiny print of what they referred to as "Trump's Lies".
Dismiss that as the failing/fake/mainstream media as you will, and as Trump's supporters do, but there has been enough contradiction in his tweets to make us all wonder what he actually does believe.

http://news.sky.com/story/sky-views-...teers-10967076