The New York Times (that purveyor of truly fake news) has the article Trump Abandons Trans-Pacific Partnership, Obama’s Signature Trade Deal.

President Trump formally abandoned the Trans-Pacific Partnership on Monday, pulling away from Asia and scrapping his predecessor’s most significant trade deal on his first full weekday in office, administration officials said.

In a discussion about whether or not the Republicans were going to kill TPP anyway, I gave my opinion.

The trouble with the Republicans was that they opposed all the good things Obama proposed. It was very risky to have to depend on them to oppose the bad things, too. Luckily the Republicans were so spiteful that they did save us from Obama’s grand bargain on entitlements and austerity. The TPP was just too good for business to have to depend on the Republicans’ killing it outside of an election season.

Don’t think business won’t keep trying. We have to depend on Trump to keep us safe. Can you imagine anyone saying that, least of all me?

People used to argue against my attitude of wanting to kill TPP that was meant to be Obama’s legacy trade deal. I always said that this was the worst legacy he could leave, and we would be doing him a favor by preventing this from being his legacy. So I guess you could say that Trump saved Obama’s legacy.