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Little wonder perhaps that Mr Trump's protectionist message has been central to the populist campaign that has made him the president-elect.
Earlier this year, the Trump campaign was hoping to incorporate the Upper Midwest into a "Rust Belt strategy," believing that the region, which has lost a lot of manufacturing jobs to foreign competition, would respond well to his protectionist message.
He was especially worried about the provision requiring the steel and iron for infrastructure construction to be American-made, and by the time the chastened president talked to Chris Wallace on Fox Tuesday, he agreed that "we can't send a protectionist message".
The action came a day after Mr. Obama told a television interviewer that "we can't send a protectionist message" in the stimulus bill, or convey to trading partners "that somehow we're just looking after ourselves and not concerned with world trade".
Abe has pushed Japan to support the deal in the face of strong opposition from the domestic farming lobby, but Trump, whose "America first" protectionist message resonated with many voters, has given no indication he is reconsidering his vow to pull out of the deal as soon as he takes office on 20 January.
At the same time, President Obama urged lawmakers combing through proposed investments that "we can't send a protectionist message".
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Most of the candidates are selling decidedly protectionist messages, as if seeking to become the Ross Perot of the 2004 race, not the Bill Clinton.
This, in effect, is promised by hard-left Trotskyites and communists, who mix a message of protectionist anti-globalisation with a crusade for social justice.
Though touting his proposed "free trade deal" between the US and UK, Farage did not address the success in the rust belt states of Trump's explicitly protectionist "America First" campaign message.
Bannon went on to attend early candidate forums, where he noticed that, while most Republicans stuck to the Party's small-government message, Trump was hitting the protectionist themes that proved popular at Breitbart and on the European right.
Beyond deficit reduction, his message was vague, except for some protectionist rants and his penchant to see conspiracies.
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