"Free Trade" – my assemblage currently featured at the Barrett Art Gallery in Santa Monica. With the usual gross exaggeration, the media have been reporting that President Trump told European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker and E.U. Council president Donald Tusk that "the Germans are bad, very bad" for making and selling lots of cars, contributing to their trade surplus, due to all their exports. Juncker said it never happened and the conversation was about Germany's trade surplus and it was quite civilized.  When you've got an arrogant, supercilious, disdainful European Union official such as him defending Trump, you know he must be telling the truth.  Via Google Translate, the quote disavowing the media claims is here in Der Spiegel: Trump had in no way been aggressively put forward. "'Bad' does not mean evil – bad enough," said Juncker. The atmosphere was...(Read Full Post)