Summary
U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Trump will “probably” announce a tariff reduction deal with Canada and Mexico, tying it to their efforts to curb fentanyl trafficking.
However, Canada’s Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly denied any discussions, stating her office hadn’t been contacted about the plan.
Canada and Mexico imposed retaliatory tariffs after the U.S. enacted 25% levies.
Prime Minister Trudeau condemned Trump’s tariffs as “very dumb” and accused him of attempting to “collapse the Canadian economy” to enable annexation, vowing, "We will never be the 51st state.
I hope they don’t. Please see straight through this giant toddler and show him that actions have consequences. Do not negotiate.
Teach him a lesson that the US is refusing to teach him.
That’s a mighty dangerous game. Two things will happen if this will happen:
The US is clearly already turning away from allies, and running right into the arms of Russia
it’s already doing that, in order to meet them in the middle we’d have to believe they were doing it in good faith which they aren’t
Economy won’t collapse new customers, and sources can be found. US already turned to autocratic countries under Trump.
so it is non issue.
Seems a dumb move to surround yourself with enemies at your borders and turn to an ally who is across the ocean, over what exactly?
a desire to inflict his psychosis on the world? chaos in a system offers the best opportunity to “win bigley” with the commensurate loss borne by the non-billionaire class.
crazy on a ship of fools.