Robert Lighthizer, the former US Trade Representative during Trump’s first term, declined to return for a second term? But why?
Well, Lighthizer had all the credentials and strategy, but he saw the s*** storm he was about to walk into. Between the federal bureaucracy breakdown, the hollowed-out trade office, and the pure chaos of navigating hundreds of Trump’s trade deals at once, it wouldn’t take a genius to know to sit this one out.
The current USTR, Jamison Greer, walked into this storm on his first day and, to no fault of his own, hasn’t made any meaningful trade progress. Frankly, I’m not holding my breath for any new deals.