UPDATE in comments
Historian Kevin Kruse
He is always a good read and someone I miss from XTwatter, but you can find him here: https://campaign-trails.ghost.io/tarri/
"Press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters directly that if Canada wants to avoid tariffs in the future, it should become the fifty-first U.S. state. She revealed that Trump’s tariffs aren’t about fentanyl or any supposed unfair treatment of the U.S. They’re about forcing Canada, with no justification whatsoever, to submit to his will.
Leavitt: "He feels strongly that it would be very beneficial for the Canadian people to be the 51st state of the United States."
https://newrepublic.com/article/192391/trump-press-sec-accidentally-reveals-ugly-scam-behind-tariffs
And we are NOT a National security threat because tRUMP heard the British burned down the whitehouse in 1812 (Canada was formed in 1867) https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/06/donald-trump-justin-trudeau-burning-down-white-house-tariffs
It would be unwise to test the waters again if you attack Canada now... You guys are shit at guerilla warfare...
tRUMP reneged on a trade deal he negotiated and signed
Dumb and dumberer on tariffs/inflation
FELON47 is a Putin ASSet
Destroying the Canadian economy, leaving NATO, leaving Canada vulnerable with Russia encroaching from the North, means the USA and Russia will exploit our natural resources and minerals even further! That tRUMP water spigot he talks about is a salivating precursor to his dreams of conquest. Canada has a large amount of water sources and we supply most of your fertilizer. Why would he care about droughts and food sources if he can run rip-shod into out country and take whatever he wants as they are doing to Ukraine
Trump lifts US sanctions on Russia while adding tariffs for allies
Trade warTariffs CRASH the stock market
MAGA sucker's tax
The rich will get their tax cuts while the lowly working Americans pay more taxes ... and each time the markets dip, and the tRUMP SLUMPS have hardly begun, the rich use that money saved to buy up more stock, depressed property and foreclosed homes. In case you need reminding: https://truthout.org/video/trumps-inner-circle-used-the-2008-housing-crash-to-get-rich/
In 2018, Tax Cuts Helped Billionaires Pay a Lower Tax Than The Working Class. https://www.forbes.com/sites/camilomaldonado/2019/10/10/trump-tax-cuts-helped-billionaires-pay-less-taxes-than-the-working-class-in-2018/
We are not ripping you off, DUFUS
I want to go back to the alternate universe where people used logic and half their brains and know tRUMP was always a useless, selfish imbecile
You economy booms on our energy and resources, huge amounts of money we funnel in via holidays and tourism and snowbirds. You will miss us when we are gone, gone, gone...
Don't worry, America! tRUMP has your back!
The GOP are using "Golden Age" as a time stamp ...bringing back a time when the rich literally ruled over the working class. Gilded Age: It was also a time of exploitation and extreme poverty for the working class. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/03/02/trump-musk-bezos-gilded-age-corporations-economy-00205454
Who needs Canadian lumber?
Or national parks?
UPDATE 7
tRUMP's Treasury Secretary is an ASS!
“Bret, I say that what we are doing is we’re setting the stage for long-term economic growth, that we were on our way to a financial crisis. I used to teach a history of financial crises. And with gigantic government spending, it was unsustainable. You look back in 1998 [U.S. GDP, the economy grew a robust 3.9 percent during 1998, matching its 1997 performance ... much stronger performance than economists were predicting] look back in ’07. Right before it looked great, everything collapsed.” [Economies were doing well with Dems and collapsed with incompetent GOP! Look what tRUMP has done to Biden's robust economy! PLUS tRUMP is the one who put the US in deepest debt... national debt rose almost $7.8 trillion during Trump’s first regime, ya doofus!. And add the TAX cuts for the rich to your non sustainable "spending" ]
“Well, we will see what they do,” Bessent responded. “My advice to every country right now is do not retaliate. Sit back, take it in. [FUK YOU!] Let’s see how it goes because if you retaliate, there will be escalation. If you don’t retaliate, this is the high water mark.”
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/sit-back-take-it-trump-treasury-secretary-warns-tariffed-countries-not-to-retaliate/
HOLY HELL IN A HANDBASKET!
Look what kettenwrangler found that the DUFUS in Chief did...
This meme speaks volumes
and I cannot give credit to the person who found it because their profile is closed...
The tariff are affecting everyone, so make sure you understand them and have contingency plans. It took a year for tRUMP to want to negotiate further during the last failed regime trade war. This time, it is going to bog down the routes and deliveries, have countries making alliances that are going to be good for them and not necessarily anyone else, and the costs will be out of reach for the already poor. And you can bet your grandmother that the stinking MAGA will not care... They'll be praising tRUMP and blaming Dems on their deathbeds (like so many did of Nixon...) https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/features/2025/tariff-explainer/#i-thought-there-was-a-free-trade-agreement-between-canada-and-the-us
THE POS loves his HITLISTS
More than 180 countries and territories are facing reciprocal tariffs. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/02/trump-reciprocal-tariffs-countries-chart-imports-united-states.html
PM Carney Response to tariffs: Fight, Protect, Build
The stupid message from tRUMP, who sounded like a child unprepared for the book report, was confusing, sloppy and weak. His Tariff talk was delayed for an hour to ensure that the Stocks would be closed! FELON47 is a WEAK WUSSY!
The markets responded anyway...
Dow futures tumble 1,000 points on fear Trump’s tariffs will spark trade war:
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/02/stock-market-today-live-updates-trump-tariffs.html
Tariffs are debilitating, not liberating.
Liberation Day is a term used by people and countries that have severed from tyranny and celebrate freedom. The lily-livered coward in the white house will never understand!
There is a new 25 per cent tariffs on foreign-made cars, effective midnight
Being the cars being made go through Mexico, Canada and the US up to 9 times before completed, this 'auto' be a fiasco of immense proportions! We have all been integrated in manufacturing parts for so long, it will be a nightmare and expensive for all. Only tRUMP the CHAOS and DEBT KING can fix it! (This is also why his economy advisors are hiding. They have no freaking clue!!) Be prepared for more of this childish chicanery! The FELON will not be happy until he has destroyed nations... and the US seems high on that list.
Make no mistake, this is always how tRUMP treated his so called "friends." His transactional bargaining was always in play. (FYI He has no real friends. Just ass-kissers, people who know how to manipulate him and the vast numbers he coerced, lied to and cheated...then left by the wayside) EG, this cross waver who was a baby when tRUMP was in highschool, but went to school with him... https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-childhood-friend-david-rem-is-a-60-year-old-nyc-maga-agitator/ https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-childhood-friend-david-rem-is-a-60-year-old-nyc-maga-agitator/
The Latest
Trump hit dozens of countries around the world with his latest round of tariffs today, but spared Canada and Mexico.
Even though there was no direct hit to Canada this time, other tariffs the president previously announced are still on the table.
A 25 per cent auto tariff takes effect at midnight and the levy on steel and aluminum is still in place.
Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canada will fight the U.S. with "force" and "countermeasures," but didn't immediately offer details on what those might look like.
Carney is expected to hold a news conference tomorrow.Trump slapped new 25 per cent tariffs on foreign-made cars, but Canada was spared the 10 per cent baseline tariffs applied to many other countries.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/livestory/trumps-tariffs-carney-says-canada-will-fight-back-with-purpose-and-with-force-9.6708337