Trump’s trade delusion
No jumped-up leader of a rinky-dink country like Canada was going to get away with talking to the president of the United States like that. But the whole confrontation over trade is irrelevant to Donald Trump’s real political concern, which is vanishing American jobs.

LONDON, U.K.—Halfway across the Pacific Ocean, Donald Trump heard the closing statements from the G7 summit in Quebec (which he had left early to meet North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un in Singapore).
All the G7 countries had signed up to an anodyne closing communiqué that papered over the huge g...
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