Finally When now-President Donald Trump first burst on to the political scene, one of the ways he made a name for himself was by ridiculing many of the trade deals the United States has spent the last several decades cutting. Trump pointed out that our trade agreements were far from “free.” They were usually one-sided sell-outs - where we agreed to not tax or regulate other countries’ imports, while none of the other countries agreed to do any such thing with ours.