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So much for the “everybody else will just wait” hot take.

This isn't much of a surprise. The UK is one of the countries that we run a trade surplus with. It's the easiest to reach a deal on, because there's nothing we're demanding of them. In fact, by Trump's logic, we're obviously treating them unfairly. It's an "ordinary" trade deal - and one that's been in negotiations since Brexit, when they went out from under agreements with the EU:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom%E2%80...

With a lot of the work already done over the last several years, this is one that could be rushed to completion (or at least was far enough along that you could make an announcement of the overall terms).

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