Trump Moves Forward with Tariffs on Canada and Mexico, Citing Trade Deficit and Border Issue

[herfiehandbag]

2 hours ago, PuiPuiHarry said:

The Unimited and Fabulous Genious forgets a LOT of US trade as to go via the St Lauwrence seaway. Also there is a lot off Canada between the USA states and the US state of Alaska. I can imagine the Canadian customs find a LOT of ways to frustrate US cargo and peronal transport over Canadian territory.

What do you think of: inspectiong every car wheel for drugs. So, get these tyres off at the border. Same with petroltank etc. And cargo.. inspect and investigate the real content first at a Canadian lab...  s  l   o  w  l   y ,  s  l  o  w  l  y. 

In a few weeks the Blond Idiot has to make a Canosa trip to the Parliament in Canada to explain his mistake and beg for forgiviness.

Unfortunately, he would start demanding that, as a ship canal, it should be handed to the USA.

[herfiehandbag]

46 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

It’s not about what Trudeau’s says, it’s about Trump’s wife’s attraction to Trudeau.

Cuckold by a Canuck.

 

 

 

Oh dear, he has got closer to him than she has to her husband for years!

[honcho]

13 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

While I think tariffs on highly subsidized commodities like steel and aluminum are likely a good idea, I question how wise it is to impose such horrendously high tariffs on EV's from China. 

 

As far as I'm concerned one of the most dangerous, reckless, and poorly thought out policies that Trump is engaging in, are even higher tariffs on many classes of imported products.

Who ends up paying for this? American companies who are manufacturing in China, Mexico, Canada, and elsewhere, and the consumer, that's who. 

 

In the end huge tariffs may encourage companies to pull out of China, which is a good thing, but how long will that process take, and what will the economic consequences be in the interim? 

 

These tariffs could spell disaster for the American economy. It is nothing but a massive tax hike on the American people, and could have a very negative impact on thousands of American companies that manufacturer overseas, without any true understanding of why they manufacture overseas.

 

Trump manufactures overseas, every opportunity he gets, to save money. Bibles, baseball caps, and likely countless other things. So, calling him very disingenuous would be an understatement. 

 

He is not a socialist. He is a failed capitalist. It is fairly easy to get wealthy if you are willing to steal most of your fortune from unsuspecting small contractors. Yet he still went bankrupt. That requires a special kind of skill. Or another form of grifting.

you are a master at twisting facts to suit your narrative!! 

[Tug]

7 hours ago, herfiehandbag said:

Oh dear, he has got closer to him than she has to her husband for years!

She got pretty chummy with Gavin Newsom as well he’s the governor of California Incase you didn’t know.perhaps she’s heard something from Kimberly guilfyole don juniors ex squeeze Kimberly is Gavin’s ex wife lol small world ehh?

[retayl]

12 hours ago, Unclernie said:

No matter how this turns out, the one thing we all hope is that this moron never gets cloned.

He already has,  moron  Jr. for 2029!

[Jingthing]

America sanctioning itself. Brilliant!

[gargamon]

Trudeau set to announce massive retaliatory tarrifs  in the next couple of hours. Let Trumpflation begin.

[herfiehandbag]

2 hours ago, Tug said:

She got pretty chummy with Gavin Newsom as well he’s the governor of California Incase you didn’t know.perhaps she’s heard something from Kimberly guilfyole don juniors ex squeeze Kimberly is Gavin’s ex wife lol small world ehh?

Trudeau💋Melania > hates Canada.

Newson💋Melania > hates California.

Greenland > mineral concessions for$

Panama > ship canal, concession for$

Mexico > brown people.

 

You see, this MAGA business is really quite simple!

 

[spidermike007]

Donald Trump does not care about merit.

 

If he cared about merit, then Pete Hegseth — a former Fox News host who has been accused of having a history of alcohol abuse and professional malfeasance — would not be secretary of defense. If he cared about merit, then JD Vance — with even less experience than one of his least experienced predecessors, Dan Quayle — would not be vice president of the United States. And if he cared about merit, then neither Robert F. Kennedy Jr. nor Kash Patel would be a hair’s breadth away from serving as secretary of health and human services or director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

 

Trump does not care about merit, but he talks about merit all the time. It is the key term in his war on diversity, equity and inclusion policies, or D.E.I.

 

But in the mind of the president and his deputy, the mere fact of diversity is evidence of incompetence and unfair treatment. To have women or nonwhites or people with disabilities in sensitive roles, says the president, is to necessarily court disaster.

 

Once again, and not for the last time, Donald Trump has disgraced and degraded his office. But then, what else is new? We knew what he was when we took him in.

[The Old Bull]

Right now the US is strong enough it can bully anyone but when that changes and it will, there is a long list of nations ready to  stick it to them.Trump is making the list longer.

 

[Lacessit]

21 hours ago, bwanajohn said:

You have to admire the USA ,.They have managed to become the richest country in the world with the majority of richest individuals in the world living and doing business in the US.And they have done that while being ripped off by everybody including there two closest trading partners. USA USA 

You have to admire a nation that runs up a $28 trillion debt without being called to account, and just keeps on printing money.

[bamnutsak]

On 2/1/2025 at 3:02 AM, Social Media said:

“We’ll be announcing the tariffs on Canada and Mexico for a number of reasons,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. He emphasized the U.S. trade deficit with its neighbors, stating, “I’ll be putting the tariff of 25 percent on Canada and Mexico, and we will really have to do that because we have very big deficits with those countries. Those tariffs may or may not rise with time.”

 

 

Protection Racket.

 

"Nice country ya got there, be a shame if something happened to it."

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRke9pMnqEE

 

[scottiejohn]

19 minutes ago, The Old Bull said:

Right now the US is strong enough it can bully anyone but when that changes and it will, there is a long list of nations ready to  stick it to them.Trump is making the list longer.

 

Right now the US thinks it is strong enough it can bully anyone but when that changes and it will, there is a long list of nations ready to  stick it to them. Trump is making the list longer.

[Oliver Holzerfilled]

12 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

It’s not about what Trudeau’s says, it’s about Trump’s wife’s attraction to Trudeau.

Cuckold by a Canuck.

 

 

 

This is about Trump and tariffs.  Scratch a radical leftist deep enough and they always bleed misogyny. 

[simple1]

21 hours ago, Woke to Sounds of Horking said:

American companies betrayed their employees by moving to communist China in the first place. Any action to get manufacturing back in the USA is a good move.

 

Trump has a special dislike for Canada, more likely for PM Trudeau (rather than the country) whom Trump once called "very weak and very dishonest."

 

Trudes cut his teeth at the W-E-F bootcamps... might have something to do with it?  (unaligned with American policy)

 

 

 

And who pays? The American tax payer, that's who! Some Americans seem to be ignorant Plus trump has announced 10% tax oil on Canadian energy oil imports, including heating oil upon which the US consumer is reliant.

 

Canadian crude oil will be subject to a lower, 10% tariff, which could mitigate the effect on U.S. gasoline prices. Midwestern oil refineries are heavily dependent on Canadian crude.

 

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/01/g-s1-46010/trump-tariffs-mexico-canada-and-china-imports

[Yagoda]

Ill pay a few bucks more if necessary to get these countries to cooperate. Im an American Taxpayer, unlike most of the screeching haters posting.

[hotsun]

35 minutes ago, The Old Bull said:

Right now the US is strong enough it can bully anyone but when that changes and it will, there is a long list of nations ready to  stick it to them.Trump is making the list longer.

 

Will it? The world follows whatever the US does.

 

people here were happy when the US was getting taken advantage of. How dare they defend themselves!

[gargamon]

This is all subterfuge. Trump needs to show income so he can justify making the tax cuts for the billionaire class permanent. The MAGA rubes that voted for him will, of course, get screwed. Trumpflation, then Trumpcession, then Trumpression, maybe even the Great Trumpression. It only took him 18 months to destroy Obama's longest period of economic expansion in US history. Obviously even less to destroy the good economy he inherited this time.

 

Trudeau's retaliatory tarrifs will be announced shortly.

[stevenl]

China doesn't have many retaliatory options stm. Most likely is an export ban on more precious materials.

[metisdead]

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[retayl]

48 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

Ill pay a few bucks more if necessary to get these countries to cooperate. Im an American Taxpayer, unlike most of the screeching haters posting.

Yep, you sure will pay more bucks and it won’t be a few. Just look at it as your Cult membership fee.

[Chomper Higgot]

58 minutes ago, Oliver Holzerfilled said:

This is about Trump and tariffs.  Scratch a radical leftist deep enough and they always bleed misogyny. 

There’s nothing ‘misogynist’ about a young woman getting hot with a young guy.

 

Quite the contrary, it’s a recognition of a woman having needs and enjoying the company of young good looking man.

 

Are Trump’s supporters denying such an obvious display of sexual attraction?

[Yagoda]

1 minute ago, retayl said:

Yep, you sure will pay more bucks and it won’t be a few. Just look at it as your Cult membership fee.

I dont belong to a cult.

 

I am a proud American who pays my taxes and demands accountability from my government as to what they spend.

 

I demand that my Government defend our borders and culture.

 

I demand that my government does not interfere with my freedoms as set forth in our Constitution.

 

The Trump administration is acting in accord with my philosophy

 

My "cult" is freedom, hard work, personal responsibility and patriotism.

 

 

Yours evidently is hate and jealousy. Another furriner I reckon.

[Yagoda]

46 minutes ago, gargamon said:

This is all subterfuge. Trump needs to show income so he can justify making the tax cuts for the billionaire class permanent. The MAGA rubes that voted for him will, of course, get screwed. Trumpflation, then Trumpcession, then Trumpression, maybe even the Great Trumpression. It only took him 18 months to destroy Obama's longest period of economic expansion in US history. Obviously even less to destroy the good economy he inherited this time.

 

Trudeau's retaliatory tarrifs will be announced shortly.

Canada will cave, they have no choice.

[Chomper Higgot]

57 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

Ill pay a few bucks more if necessary to get these countries to cooperate. Im an American Taxpayer, unlike most of the screeching haters posting.

Good for you, without batting an eyelid you vacate your anger over inflation.

 

Not so good for millions of Americans already struggling to pay their bills, put food on the table, clothes on their children’s back and a roof over their head.

[Chomper Higgot]

22 hours ago, Woke to Sounds of Horking said:

American companies betrayed their employees by moving to communist China in the first place. Any action to get manufacturing back in the USA is a good move.

 

Trump has a special dislike for Canada, more likely for PM Trudeau (rather than the country) whom Trump once called "very weak and very dishonest."

 

Trudes cut his teeth at the W-E-F bootcamps... might have something to do with it?  (unaligned with American policy)

 

 

“American companies betrayed their employees by moving to communist China in the first place.”

 

Do I detect cracks in the rightwing dogma that companies have only one allegiance and that is to their share holders?

 

 

[Yellowtail]

14 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

It’s not about what Trudeau’s says, it’s about Trump’s wife’s attraction to Trudeau.

Cuckold by a Canuck.

 

 

 

[jvs]

11 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

I dont belong to a cult.

 

I am a proud American who pays my taxes and demands accountability from my government as to what they spend.

 

I demand that my Government defend our borders and culture.

 

I demand that my government does not interfere with my freedoms as set forth in our Constitution.

 

The Trump administration is acting in accord with my philosophy

 

My "cult" is freedom, hard work, personal responsibility and patriotism.

 

 

Yours evidently is hate and jealousy. Another furriner I reckon.

Do you live in Thailand?

 

[Yagoda]

5 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Good for you, without batting an eyelid you vacate your anger over inflation.

 

Not so good for millions of Americans already struggling to pay their bills, put food on the table, clothes on their children’s back and a roof over their head.

I doubt that struggling Americans will notice the difference, not that you care, since you are both a foreigner and a supporter of the vicious Socialist agenda that was leading to the destruction of MY country, something Im sure you and many others hope for,especially with the level of Chinese Communist shilling on this forum.

 

Your sudden concern for the well being of Americans is, as always with your lot, hypocritical and hate ridden.

[Yagoda]

Just now, jvs said:

Do you live in Thailand?

 

No, why, would that make a difference? Where do you live?