The reason Obama wanted TPP so badly was that he saw it as necessary to contain China's growing influence in South East Asia. Trump, who also claims to want to

The reason Obama wanted TPP so badly was that he saw it as necessary to contain China's growing influence in South East Asia. Trump, who also claims to want to contain China, seems uninterested or uninformed in this type of geopolitical struggle. The part of the TPP that turned off most techies was the extending and exporting of our draconian Intellectual Property laws. Those laws were designed and pushed by Hollywood as a form of protectionism for the their industry, exactly the kind of protectionism for American companies that Trump claims to support. Hollywood politically is normally aligned with Democrats, but Trump's celebrity is a product of that same Hollywood, so I imagine Trump understands very well the desire for those IP protections.