Summary

Donald Trump pledged to impose a 25% tariff on all products from Mexico and Canada on his first day in office, blaming them for failing to stop illegal drugs and immigration.

He also vowed to add a 10% tariff on Chinese goods until drug trafficking into the U.S. ceases.

Economists warn these tariffs could drive up consumer prices and inflation.

While violent crime has declined in recent years, Trump continues to link trade measures to border security and drug issues, echoing his first-term trade policies and immigration stance.

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    2016 Trump: We’re gonna build the wall 10ft higher!

    2024 Trump: We’re gonna make the price of everything 10% higher!?

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    This will look just spectacular on my grocery bill. Prolly like 75% of my produce comes from Mexico right now.

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    Yah, that’ll fix inflation, you fucking stable genius.

    What a shithole country.

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    Republicans will spend the next two years blaming the previous Democrat government for the problems that will happen … then spend the next two years telling everyone that if they vote for the democrats the problems will get worse.

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        I would agree with this, going back to Reagan. I technically saw the last few months of the Carter administration when I was born. I’m just not totally sure if Reagan left Bush Sr. a crappy economy, or if Bush Sr. managed to completely torpedo the economy in 4 years, allowing Clinton to perform “an economic miracle.”

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    What are the benefits for him? All that he do is for his own good. At first I thought he was saying lies so that he can get elected. But now that he is elected, what will he gain from doing that? Won’t American suffer so does his assets?

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    Ah, yes. Canada, where all the people who have social services, healthcare, and general peace, without fear of daily shootings, try to escape from.

    I wonder where all the drugs in Canada come from.(aside from weed. Everyone I know grows at home now)

    Trump is not making America great. He’s trying to destabilize the western economic system.

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      Well, it’s because we already sent you all our worst. It took a stable genius to notice we did it. Everyone else just saw us as your nice friendly neighbours to the north, but remember how we behave in the wars? Where did all those people go?

      Actually, it’s become a little bit true lately as some Canadians were accidentally the recipient of whatever the hell made people into “MAGA people”, so some of them actually have gone down to be closer to the “fountain of TRUTH”… and so they would look less silly wearing MAGA hats… I mean, sure, Canada is also technically America, but… yeah, they wear those hats up here too, luckily not as many.

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      Trump hates NATO, The UN, and NAFTA. They were created after his father was born, so they must be bad ideas. That’s why he loves tariffs so much, because his daddy sang their praises, because the rich tanking the economy in the 1920s and 1930s allowed Trump’s grandfather to solidify his fortune, and allowed Trump’s daddy to make his fortune, both by buying up everything they could on the cheap.

      Depressions only inconvenience the rich, but allow them to get even more fabulously wealthy by buying up everything for pennies on the dollar. Depressions kill the poor, and harm what’s left of the working middle class.

      As a leftist I normally wouldn’t even acknowledge that the middle class, aka, the petit bourgeois even exists as the poor and the rest of the workers are all one class, but in this one case it is useful to differentiate between the intentional harm that the ruling class is causing.

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    Okay, but are you going to stimulate US manufacturers to fill in the vacuum you’ll create? Unless manufacturers have somewhere else to get their materials from, this will just result in shortages of everything.

    We’re gonna be seeing empty shelves in stores again. But there’ll be no new virus to explain it this time.

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    Wow. It sure is a good thing we still have domestic products that can compete with all of the imported goods from these major trade partners …right? Right?

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    The whirlpool logo looks too much like a halo to be a coincidence…surprised the pic doesn’t burst into flames