I understand that Trump is breaking a treaty with Canada and Mexico that he himself negotiated.
Trump is simply not held responsible here for anything he has said or done or agreed to in the past. I don't know why or how that is, but that's it. And other countries have to understand that and deal with it accordingly. And this will only get worse as he accumulates more power and control.
So says the Wall Street Journal
“President Trump will fire his first tariff salvo on Saturday against those notorious American adversaries . . . Mexico and Canada. They’ll get hit with a 25% border tax, while China, a real adversary, will endure 10%. This reminds us of the old Bernard Lewis joke that it’s risky to be America’s enemy but it can be fatal to be its friend.
Leaving China aside, Mr. Trump’s justification for this economic assault on the neighbors makes no sense. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt says they’ve “enabled illegal drugs to pour into America.” But drugs have flowed into the U.S. for decades, and will continue to do so as long as Americans keep using them. Neither country can stop it…
Mr. Trump sometimes sounds as if the U.S. shouldn’t import anything at all, that America can be a perfectly closed economy making everything at home. This is called autarky, and it isn’t the world we live in, or one that we should want to live in, as Mr. Trump may soon find out…
None of this is supposed to happen under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement that Mr. Trump negotiated and signed in his first term. The U.S. willingness to ignore its treaty obligations, even with friends, won’t make other countries eager to do deals..”
Opinion | The Dumbest Trade War in History
Trump will impose 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico for no good reason.www.wsj.com
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When you elect a dolt as President, expect him to make stupid decisions. This trade War with Canada and Mexico is just idiotic considering that it was Trump himself that renegotiated a new trade agreement with them only a few years ago.
Like everyone who has done business with Trump will attest: his word is garbage.
Not really. The U.S. sells guns to Mexican criminal organizations. --
NONE that you have trade deals with. Trump went bankrupt 7 times. Failure to live up to the contracts he signs, has been standard operating procedure for Trump throughout his business career.
www.americanprogress.org
www.theguardian.com
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The UK should shut it or they will get a dose of the same medicine.
Shut up Canada, suck a tariff you scammers.
So says the Wall Street Journal
“President Trump will fire his first tariff salvo on Saturday against those notorious American adversaries . . . Mexico and Canada. They’ll get hit with a 25% border tax, while China, a real adversary, will endure 10%. This reminds us of the old Bernard Lewis joke that it’s risky to be America’s enemy but it can be fatal to be its friend.
Leaving China aside, Mr. Trump’s justification for this economic assault on the neighbors makes no sense. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt says they’ve “enabled illegal drugs to pour into America.” But drugs have flowed into the U.S. for decades, and will continue to do so as long as Americans keep using them. Neither country can stop it…
Mr. Trump sometimes sounds as if the U.S. shouldn’t import anything at all, that America can be a perfectly closed economy making everything at home. This is called autarky, and it isn’t the world we live in, or one that we should want to live in, as Mr. Trump may soon find out…
None of this is supposed to happen under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement that Mr. Trump negotiated and signed in his first term. The U.S. willingness to ignore its treaty obligations, even with friends, won’t make other countries eager to do deals..”
Opinion | The Dumbest Trade War in History
Trump will impose 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico for no good reason.
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When you elect a dolt as President, expect him to make stupid decisions. This trade War with Canada and Mexico is just idiotic considering that it was Trump himself that renegotiated a new trade agreement with them only a few years ago.
Like everyone who has done business with Trump will attest: his word is garbage.
Oh, look....this idiot MAGA bumpkin shit kicker is mad at Canada....CANADA!!
Dem tears are the best, followed by Canadian tears.
They have no tears, MAGA bumpkin.
Riiiiight we should just let Canada and Mexico and China continue to rip us off. Let me guess, you are a government employee?
We are the tax payers that have to PAY for it....then when tax cuts come around people like you will claim we don't pay taxes enough to get an income tax rate cut....how do we, the middle class consumers who are the masses of people paying the tariffs/taxes to the government in inflationary tariff prices, ever going to get a tax cut?
