With tariffs signed, Trump warns of ‘pain’ to come for Americans
By: Kevin Liptak, CNN
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“THIS WILL BE THE GOLDEN AGE OF AMERICA! WILL THERE BE SOME PAIN? YES, MAYBE (AND MAYBE NOT!),” Trump posted, in all capital letters, on his Truth Social platform.
The message, which appeared in the hour before Trump arrived to his West Palm Beach, Florida, golf club for the second day in a row, amounted to an advance warning. Trump is serious about fulfilling his campaign promises to end illegal immigration, curb the flow of deadly drugs and rebalance continental trade. But doing so will be uncomfortable — or worse — for Americans already contending with a high cost of living.
“WE WILL MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, AND IT WILL ALL BE WORTH THE PRICE THAT MUST BE PAID,” Trump wrote. “WE ARE A COUNTRY THAT IS NOW BEING RUN WITH COMMON SENSE — AND THE RESULTS WILL BE SPECTACULAR!!!”
As industries brace for the new tariffs — 25% on goods from Mexico and Canada, and 10% on imports from China — it remains to be seen how long it will take for higher costs to have an impact on American consumers. The tariffs are set to go into effect Tuesday at 12:01 a.m. ET.
In a tacit acknowledgement that upside pressures could affect Americans’ gas and heating costs, Trump levied only a 10% tariff on Canadian oil and gas.
Already, Canada and Mexico have moved to retaliate — reluctantly, in the case of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who said during a somber address from Ottawa late Saturday: “We don’t want to be here.”
If the back-and-forth tariffs remain in place for a prolonged period, the “pain” Trump warned of could become a reality.
But even some Trump allies have privately hoped that after implementing the harsh new duties — and proving to the world he’s willing to act decisively — Trump could eventually ease up, as long as he’s extracted some concessions.
What exactly those concessions are, however, isn’t clear. Before implementing the tariffs, Trump did not meet or speak on the telephone with Trudeau or with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum to spell out his demands.
Trudeau said Saturday he’d been trying to reach Trump since the inauguration, but his calls have not been returned.
Briefing reporters Saturday evening, White House officials declined to lay out specific benchmarks that Canada or Mexico could reach in tightening their borders or curbing fentanyl flows that would allow the tariffs to be lifted.
And Trump himself told reporters late Friday he wasn’t looking for any concessions at all. In his social media posting Sunday morning, his rationale for the tariffs extended well beyond punishment for the illicit flow of fentanyl.
“The USA has major deficits with Canada, Mexico, and China (and almost all countries!), owes 36 Trillion Dollars, and we’re not going to be the ‘Stupid Country’ any longer,” he wrote. “MAKE YOUR PRODUCT IN THE USA AND THERE ARE NO TARIFFS!”
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Trump finally admits what everyone with more than half a brain already knew, his tariffs will cause the American people to suffer.
Will his cult get it or will they beg for more?
His cult will buy his bullshit and continue defending him.
We have stubborn stupidity and arrogance abusing the power of the presidency.
History says the gop in the Senate may be fed up, turn on and betray Trump by, I don't know, the middle of March...
You know, I would think a second-term president would lose support pretty quickly. After all, his influence will end in less than 4 years, anyway.
But that applies in normal times. These are not normal times.
Vance already rearranged the Oval Office furniture in his head...
One can only hope that reason will return to the GOP.
Quayle
Don't count on it.
I don't. Wish I could.
Over the last year or so several recently former Republicans stated that the only way to bring their party back is to burn it to the ground.
I have been saying that for more than a year. When Trump became the most likely nominee, that showed me that the GoP had lost its way. To have so many people support this scoundrel no matter what he has done shows that the GoP is sick beyond repair. When that happens, it is Phoenix time. Like a company restructuring upon bankruptcy, the GoP has to suffer a major blow to convince enough people that things absolutely must change.
Trump's loss would likely have set the GoP back on the road to recovery. At this point, I am not sure that a crushing midterm defeat will be enough. Note how Trump supporters continue to defend this irresponsible asshole no matter what he does ... even when his actions are going to hurt them where they will feel it most.
We are living in strange (and sick) times, G2.
Yes, we do live in strange and sick times.
As for the 2026 midterms, with the authoritarian moves by Trump and his Republican Party, I'm starting to have serious doubts about the next election being fair and free.
Quite clever.
Do Americans have SUCH short memories that they've forgotten that Trump PLAYS DOWN bad things that he allows or causes to happen to Americans? Does anyone remember this?
LINK -> Trump admitted he deliberately played down coronavirus threat: Reports - ABC News
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IMO, a lot of people in Mexico, Canada and the US are going to get hurt, sadly I don’t see the tariffs solving any of the so called problem long term. Other countries have long memories when they are forced into positions that they don’t feel is honest. As always the pendulum swings both ways.
IMO the nations that Trump has imposed tariffs on should simply redirect their trading to each other. China is a much bigger market than the USA, and most likely a less expensive supplier of much that America can provide. Who needs oranges from California and Florida when China has tons of many kinds of oranges, and I'm sure that there are nations other than the USA that could use Canada's oil and wood.
Trump is threatening to impose tariffs on any products not made in the U.S., except for Trump brand products, of course, which are all made in China, and undoubtedly products imported by his friends like Musk. In other words, he is starting an international trade war with the U.S. against everyone else. That should work out well.
I'm looking forward to see if the House and Senate Republicans are going to continue kowtowing to Trump's insanity when it approaches the mid-terms. However, I misjudged what the voters would do last November, so who knows? Those who voted for him might actually by then discover that shooting oneself in the foot can be painful.
To do anything but continue kowtowing would require a backbone and we know they gave that up decades ago.
Yes. Pain for non-billionaires. So, he doesn’t give a fuck.
In trade wars, as in physical ones, the rich are rarely at risk.
An exception might be an Oligarch who can't get his yacht to a safe harbour in time.
Of course he could just leave the yacht and take a helicopter to another of his yachts in another harbor!
(And if some government seizes the first yacht it won't matter much-- a true Oligarch has several yachts...in various places.)
Of course. Why just have one yacht when you can afford two?
Yep, that's so.
Fentanyl does come into the U.S, from Mexico--but does any significant amount come into the U,S, from Canada? (i would imagine that if any crosses that border it is going the other way-- from the U.S. to Canada. ???
Yep, the drugs can join the guns going north.
To be fair, cartels and drug smugglers are not staffed by entirely stupid people. When one route gets harder to use they will look for easier options. There is some smuggling of fentanyl from Canada into the US. There is a chart (map) in the link that shows the fentanyl trafficking.
In Trumpspeak lowering prices on day one also means blatantly and openly raising prices across the board in a single act of cowardly aggression.
Is it time to say I told you so?
Babble means to rattle on in a nonsensical way.
Trump holds a grudge and is very vindictive looking for retribution and his voters just don't get the fact he is holding a grudge against them first and foremost.
The way Trump had to beg for those 11 thousand votes because he knew he lost hoping to bully his way into a second term simply because his voters never gave him an indisputable landslide is stuck in his craw.
Pulling stunts that will hurt red states the most is the icing on his cake. He will never forgive or forget.
And sticking Musk in to take over Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid is just more pain to inflict on red state voters along with everyone else.
As if the folks at Trump rallies are gonna buy in to Trump and Musk's crypto scam. They already are going after banks ready to deregulate to the point of cancelling FDIC insurance on your money in any bank.
" Daddy's home" and guess who is in deep trouble. Trump never expected Dems to vote for him but his base that never gave him landslides, well enjoy his retribution.