A leaked draft of a Trump administration bill comes with an unfortunate acronym, the FART Act.
After Axios reported on the United States Fair and Reciprocal Tariff Act, a bill that would cause the U.S. to abandon fundamental World Trade Organization rules, several commentators quickly reacted to the name.
[Also read: Trump threatens to leave the WTO if ‘they don’t treat us properly’]
Every member of Congress should be asked whether they would openly stand behind a FART act. https://t.co/OeMcACMIBY
— Jeff B. (@EsotericCD) July 2, 2018
As an editor who writes some headlines at the NY Post can I just say I’m really psyched about the FART Act
— Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) July 2, 2018
‘It stinks’: report of Trump’s Fart Act blows through Washington https://t.co/UvM4cNsIiX
— The Guardian (@guardian) July 2, 2018
Trump is about to blow up the global trading regime with an unsettling FART Act. https://t.co/tgDZxQSE2V
— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) July 1, 2018
The White House reportedly wants Congress to pass something called the FART Act https://t.co/Ir64rAYiGy pic.twitter.com/AhKozcHVmD
— Splinter (@splinter_news) July 2, 2018
Free headline: Trump’s FART Act is Just Hot Air.
— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) July 2, 2018
I sh*t you not, @realDonaldTrump bill to pull out of World Trade Organization is called the “United States Fair and Reciprocal Tariff Act” or U.S. FART Act. It would create give President unilateral authority to impose tarriffs. #bigstink #hotair #fart #trade #WTO
— David Shuster (@DavidShuster) July 2, 2018
BREAKING: Wind. #FartAct
— The Gaf (@thegaf) July 2, 2018
The FART Act.
The FART Act. pic.twitter.com/O0jPUqEGid
— Schooley (@Rschooley) July 2, 2018
Even the president’s former White House press secretary, Anthony Scarramucci, weighed in saying, “WTO has its flaws, but the ‘United States Fair and Reciprocal Tariff Act,’ aka the U.S. FART Act, stinks. American consumers pay for tariffs. Time to switch tactics.”
WTO has its flaws, but the “United States Fair and Reciprocal Tariff Act,” aka the U.S. FART Act, stinks. American consumers pay for tariffs. Time to switch tactics. https://t.co/OfyOFA1neU
— Anthony Scaramucci (@Scaramucci) July 2, 2018
