Trump pauses tariffs on Canada for at least 30 days, Trudeau says

[merc@sh.itjust.works]

It shows them that he's a strong leader who can get other world leaders to do what he wants. He made a threat, and Canada reacted by doing something he demanded. It's incredibly stupid, and will be completely ineffective, but the show of strength is the important part.

[inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world]

So that would give Canada and Mexico to diversify and find alternative markets after Trump capitulated.

[misterdoctor@lemmy.world]

Sorry for that ugly visual.

You are not forgiven. You’re not wrong. But you’re also not forgiven.

[cort@lemmy.world]

That's just the fringe benefit. The real aim was to distract from the plane crashes he caused with his mismanagement of the FAA, and the half dozen agencies that have been hijacked by people without security clearance

[rxbudian@lemmy.ca]

That would also give Trump time to find alternative markets to prepare to reimpose the tariffs

[rxbudian@lemmy.ca]

Canada should keep imposing the Tariffs until March.
Trump didn't expect Canada to hit back, so he is unprepared for the fallout. If Canada also pauses until March, Trump will use the time to prepare and he'll reimpose the Tariffs in march

[showroom7561@lemmy.ca]

My thoughts, exactly.

This move was simple intelligence gathering. Now he knows how the world will respond to this threat. He's far more prepared to do it for real the next time.

Canada should hold their ground and call his bluff. Make him suffer for just the idea of threatening us.

[cruxifux@feddit.nl]

Yeah I’m still never knowingly buying another US product ever again. Fuck them.

[cruxifux@feddit.nl]

Buy Canadian. Our beer and whisky is better anyway.

[biglime@lemmy.ml]

He backed down like the weak nepo baby he his

[theacharnian@lemmy.ca]

For the record, a trade deficit is not a bad thing, Trump is just obsessed with it because he's an idiot.

[matavatnik@lemmy.world]

So what happens after the 15th time Trump does this?

[resin85@lemmy.ca]

The increase in border security spending was announced back in December. The only real change announced today is that Canada will now stick the bogus title of Fentanyl Czar on someone. Oh, and the fact that Canadians now will actively avoid any American products. Great job mango Mussolini.

[windyrebel@lemmy.world]

I’m an American in a blue state and I voted for Kamala. I fully support this!

[inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world]

He pissed off the two biggest trade partners, already fucked over farmers with China with the last round of tariffs that never recovered, and most of the EU. Him and his idiot brain trust isn't exactly swimming in markets.

Also he doesn't want to source anything from anywhere, he's stuck in some dementia addled past that never existed where America produced everything and thinks he can do this overnight.

[drcobaltjedi@programming.dev]

American in a swing state, voted blue down ballot. Make us suffer for electing this moron.

[laranis@lemmy.zip]

This is the part the media and the economists get wrong. This was never about trade or the economy. Trump understands neither. What he does understand is power. Control. It is how he has always "negotiated". Find some pressure points you control, press on it (even if it makes no sense or, worse, actually causes suffering) and then wait for someone to offer something and declare victory.

No grand plan, no scheme, no 3d chess, no deep thought. Just flex and collect.

[someone@lemmy.ca]

I managed to do a pretty good grocery shop today and I managed to only buy 1 American onion. There was a local option but I couldn't justify buying (or carrying) 25lbs without a plan. It's a local grocery store though, and I'm confident they're working on making buying Canadian/boycotting American products much easier very soon.

[shalafi@lemmy.world]

C'mon, Trump was talking tariffs for months ahead of all that.

[cort@lemmy.world]

Yeah, he keeps bringing them up any time he needs to distract from any negative coverage of him or his own failings. They're now on pause after they succeeded in their goal of distraction.

Don't get me wrong, they'll come up again. And again. And again. It's one of the easiest levers he can pull or buttons he can press to get massive attention with very little impact to himself.