In the face of a trade war with America’s neighbors, Trump blinked
Trump’s classic political method is already on full display in his second presidency and helps explain the baffling chaos, brinkmanship and posturing of his tariff showdown with Canada and Mexico.
Punishing 25% levies on imports from America’s closest neighbors were due to come into force at 12:01 a.m. ET Tuesday, but Trump put his two-front trade war on hold, claiming he’d scored two big wins and major concessions.
But despite a White House victory lap, there’s a more convincing case that it was really Trump who backed away from a fight that could have caused severe economic pain.
Tremendous job at alienating your best friend and closest ally.
Lots of US states will notice this summer when the tourists don’t come. I came across some “Come visit X state!” ads on Facebook recently from various US state government tourist agencies and the comments were littered with Canadians saying (rather politely thankfully), “Yeah, No, Not happening” in many different ways.
The US pissed off the entirety of Canada. They pissed off the Quebecois and Albertans so badly that they became friends.
The Journal de Montréal has a great article about a food distributor canceling orders Monday morning and his suppliers in the US freaking out. Canada didn’t bend the knee, the US lobbyists representing farmers, construction companies , car makers, etc. all called to President they voted for and told him to cave. Putin’s agenda is all nice and all until it costs money.
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