U.S. tariffs on Mexico to be paused for a month, Trump says
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U.S. President Donald Trump will pause new tariffs on Mexico for one month after Mexico agreed to reinforce its northern border with 10,000 National Guard members to stem the flow of illegal drugs, particularly fentanyl, he said on Monday on social media.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said the agreement also includes a U.S. commitment to act to prevent trafficking of high-powered weapons to Mexico. The two leaders spoke by phone on Monday, just hours before U.S. tariffs on Mexico, China and Canada were set to take effect.
The two counties will use the month-long pause to engage in further negotiations, Trump said.
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Yeah, it was a really weak move by them.
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He didn't get what he wanted at all. He tried to look tough, the world pointed out he was shooting himself in the foot, then he backed down like a bitch.
If you think all he wanted was some national guard troops patrolling the border and that's all this was about, I don't know what to tell you.
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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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Mexico doesn't pay the tarrifs, Americans will pay the tarrif. It's just a fancy word for tax. Call it import tax, Trump import tax. Do you see it ? It's meant to make US made more attractive by making imports more expensive. It also make Trump a very unreliable partner. Flip flopping all over the place.
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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
