Here's a list of the current Trump tariffs taken from Wikpedia. It's important to remember that there's a 10% tariff on every country and special tariffs that severely affect Canada and Mexico. In Canada's case, it's the 25% tariff on steel, alumium, and autos.
This isn't just about China. Trump has focused much of his attack on Canada.
I don't think anybody understands what it is that Trump wants to negotiate.
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He’ll go away, like a rainy day—very good at feeding the journos who are more than happy to obliged, but with way more self-importance than lasting impact (other than to the reputation of his country).
The danger is his vice president, who is very clever and by his praise of the German extreme right (in a country that saw the nazism accessing power democratically) and unnecessary public bullying of Zelesky comes across as nasty piece of work with a bright future.
I cannot imagine how this can go on. There are our mid-term elections about 2 years away, but I don't know if the Democrats can find their way out of a paper bag let alone flip the balance in Congress.
The goal of The Orange One here is to bring back more manufacturing to the US. Maybe some of that will happen, if it is profitable and affordable despite the salary needs of us Americans, but we are being wrecked in the process. There is simply no way to do even a fraction of the manufacturing that is subjected to tariffs as that involves millions of jobs that Americans Don't Want. So he is trying to bring back a world that has not existed for 70 years.
Like most true Canadians I think Trump does great things and good things and only wrong on a few. The democrat side is bad in everything. In fact they would frown on free speech that is used here to attack Trump. Free speech is a natural eight and a historic English right and is interfered with in Canada. It doesn't stop the future triump of truth.
It’s extraordinary how people come to normalize the truly aberrant—granting amnesty to those who attacked Parliament, expressing territorial ambitions over Canada and Greenland, questioning the need to uphold the Constitution, or casting doubt on commitments to support NATO allies in the event of an attack. And the list goes on.
It’s a stark reminder of how even a nation with a rich intellectual tradition—like Germany—once democratically handed power to a monster, and how any democracy, for all its strengths, can also enable leaders who work to subvert its very foundations.
It’s also the kind of historical and civic understanding that should be taught in schools and universities—clearly and urgently.
Of course he isn't looking to negotiate anything. His big break was playing a successful businessman (which he was not) on TV. He's playing two roles, the tough guy and the America First guy. All the tariffs are to generate publicity toward that end. They make no sense economically or as negotiating tools because they aren't designed to. This is in line with all of this administration's policies, such as doing outrageous things like kidnapping people in broad daylight, while the actual data shows less effective immigration enforcement than Obama or Biden. In sum: Don't look for results, look for the type of publicity the administration seeks to generate.
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