U.S. tariffs on Mexico to be paused for a month, Trump says
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It made them seem weak, but also they still get to pay tariffs in a month
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Suddenly America is flooded with fentanyl disguised as every random pill you can imagine. The fear of medicine becomes as deadly as the fentanyl.
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And what do you think he wants from Canada? As far as I can tell he just doesn't like Trudeau
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He got Mexico to maybe to something and you call that a successful negotiation?
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Hopefully Sheinbaum told Trump that she’d send the troops to the border ahorita.
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I don’t see how this is a loss for trump. He got Mexico to do something he presumably wanted.
Businesses like predictability. Even if something is going to be expensive in the future, businesses are okay with that as long as they know its coming and can plan/make changes. What trump did was the exact opposite. He introduce uncertain and has lost trust with the largest businesses in the world.
Some of his biggest supporters and enablers and big business. He just dropped his pants and took a shit in their backyard with this.
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Mexico has essentially agreed to pay tribute, now it's a matter of finding out the price. Yes I call that a Trump win. Produce keeps coming in and he gets to take credit for whatever Mexico agrees to.
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This is all a matter of perspective. Did he achieve anything meaningful? Of course not. Did he get Mexico to respond to an action that he did? Yes. Can he use the response (doesn't matter what it is) to say his action is working? Yes. Again he doesn't care about the response, Trump cares about optics.
Do the same thing with Canada. Trump impressed an action (the tariffs) that caused a response (Canada to implement their own tariffs). Can we apply the same logic to the opposite response? Did Canada do something(again doesn't matter what) to an action trump did? Yes they did. Trump can now spin it and say look it's working.
Of course, it's working at doing something. Eroding our relationships with our neighbors. But he can spin it to his base anyway he wants because he can claim they did "it" (again the it is just the response, doesn't matter what response) because of an action he took (imposed the tariffs).
His base is only looking at what Trump says not what was done. So if Trump claims it was successful, they believe it.
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No idea, I'm not even sure Trump knows what he wants. It seems like a fishing expedition to me. Throw out some wild tarrifs and see what happens.
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Sorry... as long as nations don't ignore him, it's a win? Is that really what you're saying?
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Paid tribute? What are you even talking about?
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I'm an idiot, thanks for the clarification
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No business is ok with arbitrarily paying more, even if it is predictable. That's why they built factories in Mexico in the first place, because it was cheaper. Businesses also aren't a monolith in their preferences, Amazon would happily take 4 years of chaos if it forces many competitors out of business. Similarly musk/Tesla isn't ready to compete with other car companies (US, EU, or China) actually trying to make EVs, more chaos on his competition is great for him.
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The only source in this article is Trump saying this is what happened. Don't trust what Trump is saying directly. He's already previously mislead to make it seem like other countries caved when they really did almost nothing
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An idiot would've argued back without verifying. So not an idiot.
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How????
The cheeto wanted us (México) to be more aggresive as their lower border to prevent migrants from coming over... we agreed to his terms and we got a single month to comply, how is that him getting whipped? He got what he wanted, he bent us over (just like the expresident from the same party in power).
Even worse, this will only encourage him to ask for more things since he can get away with it. -
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