Obama defends TPP as APEC summit ends in Peru

With the close of the APEC summit in Peru on Sunday, US President Barack Obama delivered his last news conference abroad.

The outgoing president defended the Trans-Pacific Partnership to the end.

[triplebackspace]

That's our president defending the views and interests of the Americans who really matter, the 1%.

[mr.president]

Like it or not im going to miss Obama... 👏

[leekh]

for any trade to be successful including apec, first job is to end corruption n money laundering

[Skrab]

Tpp won't last a day in the trump administration

[ghosttimer]

Trade is for people? Here I was thinking it was for marsupiales.

[willns]

Barack and Michelle are going back to Chicago to devote themselves
to helping the poor and underprivileged of that city--a city in dire need of help.

And, of course, in the process set a salutary example for us "lazy" Americans to do their
fair share.

well, not exactly..they're buying three (3) houses...a nine room (nine?!) mansion
in an "old monied" section of Georgetown. Then there's a getaway house in Hawaii,
and a modest mansion in Rancho Mirage (gotta golf!)...and, oh yeah...gotta get filthy rich too.
Not too shabby for a guy who never had a job. America may be full of deplorables and clingers... but it does have it's compensations.

their oldest daughter is trying to decide between Yale, Princeton, Harvard or Wesleyan
(about $50, 000/ year tuition). The younger one attends the most exclusive (and expensive) private schools in D.C. (and I thought public schools rocked! Silly me).

[kiskeacity]

He hasn't learned his lesson. I thought TPP was dead?