Trump's favorite report card for the trade war keeps getting uglier

The US trade deficit grew in the month of August.
President Donald Trump has made the reduction of the trade deficit one of the focuses of the trade war.
The goods trade deficit with China, a key focus of Trump's, also hit a record high by one measure.
Exports of soybeans, an important crop and one of China's targets in the trade war, nosedived in August.President Donald Trump is losing the trade war, at least according to his favorite measuring stick.
Trump has repeatedly cited the US's ever-gr