US President Donald Trump makes a trade announcement in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on May 8, 2025. Conservative radio host and pundit Erick Erickson slammed US President Donald Trump’s newly-announced trade agreement with the United Kingdom as “shitty.”“It’s actually a pretty shitty deal” for Americans, he wrote on social media.Trump on Thursday hailed the accord ― that’s been condemned by many top economists and which will, in effect, triple taxes that Americans pay on imports from the UK ― and said it was “a full and comprehensive one that will cement the relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom for many years to come.”But Erickson vehemently disagreed.“First, they told us the 10% tariff was just a baseline for negotiations to get to free trade deals,” he wrote on X, the Elon Musk-owned platform formerly known as Twitter.“Now we’re being told the 10%
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