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Donald Trump on Thursday announced a 35% tariff on Canadian imports, starting Aug. 1, citing that Ottawa had retaliated with tariffs against Washington.
“Instead of working with the United States, Canada retaliated with its own Tariffs,” Trump said in his letter to Mark Carney, prime minister of Canada, posted on Truth Social.
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They’ll be gone by next week.
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Is that the art of the deal or petulant flailing?
It’s like pushing a button that you think is hurting the guy on the other side of the table, only to look under the table and realize the wires aren’t connected to anything and they were just having you on.
Or? Didn’t you mean “is”.
I think in this case it’s yet another example of brazen market manipulation.
Enacting tariffs against our trading partners, and excellent neighbors, as well as allies, is an act of war. It puts America in ‘national security’ peril. We are not being attacked by Canada or Mexico. It’s putin’s Russia you need to be concerned about, you orange cancer.
In Trumps addled mind, Canada not buying US milk is a national security threat.
That’s giving him way too much credit; he clearly doesn’t care about national security.
I don’t understand how so many countries just take this shit. Does the US economy have that strong a hold on your country that you are scared to stand up for your people? How shitty of a leader do you have to be to not have a contingency in place for something like this?
Well, Canada’s only meaningful land border and a vast amount of transportation infrastructure is to the US, so any reasonable leader would probably try to maximize trade with that neighbour as long as they are an ally. Carney has definitely focused on more European trade, but yes, perhaps there should have been more diversification even before Donny.
The is reasonable but very short sighted. You don’t put your eggs in 1 basket as the saying goes.
While this is obviously true now, in hindsight, it’s certainly not fair. The entire western world put all of their eggs in the USA basket… why? Because after WWII there was a real sense that the USA was trustable. That they would work toward freedom, democracy, and (importantly) expanding markets in the world. The USA made the basket and the rest of the world piled in their eggs. Despite plenty of evidence to the contrary (Panama, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc all), the world continued to believe the lie that America was happy promulgating. Nobody reasonable believed America would take a hard right turn to fascism and voluntarily elect a leader that would throw the basket — the basket they made to always favour America — in the trash. But here we are. Yes, the world never should have agreed to America putting itself at the top of the pile. But we did and now the world is busy re-orienting without America. I think that’s for the better, but then again I’m not American. I think Americans are in for a rude awakening when the Trump policies actually come home to roost… of course he’ll be gone by then and they’ll just blame whatever democrat inherits the burning hulk of America that he leaves behind.
I’d have more respect for our Canadian leaders if even ONE of them would just stand up at a podium and say “nope…we’re ignoring it. Everyone knows it’s a pump and dump scheme to deflate and reinflate stocks. And in a week he’ll be removing them.”
Everyone KNOWS he’s a fucking grifter, but politicians don’t want to say it out loud.
That would be an incredibly stupid diplomatic strategy. So be happy that your politicians are smarter than that.
If they call him on his bullshit his fefes might get hurt and he might actually keep them on to be spiteful.
Better to just smile and nod at his senile ass and continue to make contingency plans.
In violation of the trade agreement HE negotiated just a couple years ago.
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Er, “instead of caving to our unreasonable demands, they’ve responded in kind.”
It’s like Russia and Ukraine. Trump, if you want to work with Canada, just remove the trade barriers.
It really is that stupid.
i.e. his rich buddies called him up and said “we need/want more money, go manipulate the market again” to which Trump said “sure i’ll fuck with Canada some more”
that’s all this is. Carney needs to stop playing nice and start up the digital service tax again.
lets reinstate that digital sales tax and triple it, fuck em.
Yes, nobody should do any accommodation to trump. You only loose. He will demand more and make the same threats again, typical bully.
People tried appeasement with the Nazis as well… Didn’t work out so well.
Trump is named in the Epstein files.
Trump cut NOAA and FEMA funding before flash flooding killed over 200 people in Texas including two dozen Christian girls.
And why does the fact that the two dozen girls were in a cult matter?
Is this an alt or are there two of you in this thread?
Matters to his voters.
To me, I think it’s worth pointing out the hypocrisy of the “the gays caused hurricane Sandy/Katrina/etc” people.
It all about the optics. You say 200 people died people won’t care as much, you say 200 girls died and and THEY WERE GOOD CHRISTIANS, you appeal to a lot of Americans.
God has no tolerance for traitors. You see, God discovered that they supported the Devil in secret, so he sent a flood to kill them. It’s a message to help the surviving Texans remember their true allegiance.
It matters to the cult that they were in.
I thought he already put tariffs on us? And then again?
Pissing into the wind.
They chickens out too much to enforce them.
