It’s Almost Like They Knew Trump Was Bluffing
Mexico and Canada gave something that amounts to little, but enough that he can declare a win.
The surprise factor is gone.
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“Make someone happy with a phone call” was one of the more beloved British advertising slogans of the 1970s, an era when it made sense for the nationalized telecoms group to tell its customers to use its land lines more. It featured Bernard Cribbins, the voice of the Wombles, and it all seems terribly old-fashioned now. But sometimes, you really can make someone happy by picking up the phone, and that’s what happened Monday after Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico’s president, got on the line to chat with her American counterpart Donald Trump.