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Taxes on steel and aluminum imports will have been one arbitration – lost – too many for Gary Cohn. Donald Trump's main economic adviser had weighed his resignation during an internal debate at the White House on the relevance of a protectionist shift long desired by the President of the United States. Impavid, the latter ignored the 1^st March. After having obviously tried to mitigate the effects, Gary Cohn ended up drawing the consequences, Tuesday March 6, adding his name to a surprisingly long list of departures, only thirteen months after the arrival of the real estate mogul in head of the country. Wall Street reacted to this departure with a fall of 300 points.

At the White House, this former senior official of the powerful investment bank Goldman Sachs played the a counterweight to the president's nationalist instincts, reinforced by his strategic adviser Stephen Bannon, an ultra ousted in August 2017, then by Peter Navarro, a supporter of protectionism whose influence has been decisive in recent weeks. Described as a "globalist Gary" by his detractors, Mr. Cohn had already been unable to prevent the decision to break with a draft free trade treaty with countries bordering the Pacific, then that of leaving the Paris agreement against global warming.

A first incident had opposed the president to his main economic adviser in August 2017 following the convoluted remarks of Donald Trump on the violent clashes between white supremacists and anti-racists in Charlottesville (Virginia), marked by the death of an anti-racism activist. Gary Cohn had been outraged by the president's failure to criticize far-right activists officially gathered to oppose the removal of an equestrian statue of Civil War Secessionist military leader Robert E. Lee.

Trump “likes conflict”

The departure of Gary Cohn, a week after that of the president's communications director, Hope Hicks, presented as a confidant of Donald Trump, reduces a little more the number of advisers present at the White House from the first days. After the departures of the first chief of staff, the first national security adviser and the first spokesperson, he is almost limited to the couple formed by Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and his eldest daughter, Ivanka. Mr. Kushner is however weakened by the loss of the accreditation allowing him to access the most confidential information.

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Tuesday morning at dawn, on his Twitter account, Donald Trump disputed the accusations of "chaos" that the departure of Hope Hicks and another adviser, Josh Raffel, revived. “There are always departures and arrivals and I like the robust dialogues before making a decision. I still have people I want to change (still striving for perfection). There is no chaos, only great energy! “, assured the president.

During a joint press conference with the Swedish Prime Minister visiting the White House, Stefan Löfven, Donald Trump added on Tuesday afternoon by assuring: "I like conflict", in an obvious allusion to the lively internal debate fueled by the protectionist shift. Facing him, the chair reserved for Gary Cohn in the American delegation remained empty.

Mr. On this occasion, Trump praised the attractiveness that he believed his administration would benefit from; no doubt to put the effects of the current hemorrhage into perspective. "Everyone wants to be part of it," he said. Departures are likely to continue. Among the most exposed positions today is that held by General H. R. McMaster, appointed in March after the hasty departure of the president's first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, now prosecuted for lying to the federal police. In turn, the NBC chain and the Wall Street Journal spoke in great detail about the degraded relationship that the president would have with his main adviser for strategic affairs.

Priebus' behind-the-scenes revelations

Mr. Trump's chief of staff, John Kelly , is also the subject of a virulent campaign orchestrated by relatives of the president, whom this former marine general dismissed from the White House as soon as he took office in July. John Kelly had been appointed to bring order to an administration plagued by divisions. He had to leave for this the post of secretary of internal security which he loved. “I guess I must have done something wrong, and God punished me,” he commented Thursday in a humorous allusion to internal tensions.

In the new edition of the book that the writer and documentary filmmaker Chris Whipple devotes to the post of chief of staff (The Katekeepers, Broadway Books, untranslated), the first holder of the post, Reince Priebus, draws up an unvarnished report of the six months spent alongside the president. "Take everything you hear [on the operation of the White House] and multiply by fifty", assures this cacique of the Republican Party, according to extracts published in February by the magazine Vanity Fair.