Trudeau tells Trump: Tariff war will shut American factories

[kryptoniancodemonkey@lemmy.world]

Our allies are sensible and question his stupidity. Our enemies are also sensible and so they applaud his stupidity, because they're our enemies.

[bakkoda@sh.itjust.works]

The state of most manufacturing facilities is already abysmal. They barely need any help going under.

[monstrosity@lemm.ee]

He was talking directly to the American People, as he mentioned right before this quote.

But it seems American media is invested in keeping the American people uninvested. Like this is between two leaders and we just get to watch.

[finitebanjo@lemmy.world]

Tariffs don't work that way, putting the tariff up was stupid and putting a reactionary tariff up would also be stupid.

[finitebanjo@lemmy.world]

If they make this year as shit as possible and it evens out next year they can say they saved the failing economy.

[goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world]

Nah, he's just refusing to talk to him because his goal is to tank America and this is a step in it. Funnel all the money to himself and his friends, rape and pillage, and eliminate it as a superpower, threat, or world influence for daddy Putin.

[finitebanjo@lemmy.world]

Does he not know about the Mexico Tariffs? Is he planning to just become Mexican when the USA goes to shit?

[irateanteater@sh.itjust.works]

Maybe he's just mad that his wife and daughter never looked at him the way they looked at Trudeau.

[thunderwhiskers@lemmy.world]

I don't feel bad for the companies; I feel for the poor bastard that has to scrape it off.

[assaultpotato@sh.itjust.works]

Costco has a great Colombian whole bean that they sail from Colombia to Quebec where it's roasted and packaged. Cafe William's Sailboat coffee. We love it. We'll be buying it exclusively now!

[bytemeister@lemmy.world]

His voters like him because he is like them.

[kben@lemm.ee]

Did Donny dickbrain watch the southpark movie and think it was a documentry.

[wewbull@feddit.uk]

I'm waiting for him to announce "Operation Get-behind-the-darkies".

[sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz]

Yeah, I don't understand how people are confused about this. We KNOW from his last term that the Russians have kompromat on MANY Republicans, or just outright own them. Did everyone forget all the Republican senators flying to Russia together to meet with Putin?

If you view Trump and Co.'s actions from Putin's POV, it makes a lot of sense.

[jode@midwest.social]

I want to make ones that say "YOU did this" to maybe MAYBE give the trump dummies/non voters a moment of self reflection.

[wewbull@feddit.uk]

A telephone call requires him to respond without his team in the loop. He's not opening himself up to that.

Since taking office I'm getting more and more convinced that he's in two modes. Teleprompter mode, where his words have been agreed upon by his team, and twitter rant, where he's just spouting his own bile.

He never speaks candidly in person since winning the election. Even the press room statement after the air crash was a prepared piece with all the hate baked in. Sure he took some questions but they were predictable and mainly deflected.

[ninemiletower@lemmy.world]

He thinks it will make manufacturers come to MI because they won't want to pay tariffs.

[finitebanjo@lemmy.world]

Minimum wage in MI is $10.25 USD, and the Mexico minimum wage is supposedly $248.93 PESO equal to about 12 USD and potentially rising, so your boss might have a point if the US workforce doesn't just leave the country themselves.

[natakunox@lemmy.world]

If you are a Canadian or Mexican please contact your representatives and have them do a more targeted tariff plan. Target American red states directly! Oil tariffs should be universal but anything made in red states and counties should have a 100% tariff. Force industry and goods to flow through blue areas and Trump's support will crumble.

[bassturd@lemmy.world]

If Canada just stopped selling aluminum and steel to the US, it would heavily affect aerospace and military manufacturing.