Trump tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China begin Saturday, White House says

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/31/trump-tariffs-on-canada-mexico-and-china-begin-saturday-white-house-says.html

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  2. If anyone needs me I’ll be getting ready for the fourth ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ financial crisis of my adult life.

    Proposal to make coconuts the global reserve currency, all those in favour say ‘aye’.

  3. Dear Leader will likely change his mind and make it February 30.

  4. So we ‘need’ these tariffs because ‘these countries are ripping us off’ with the trade deal.. that… Trump’s prior administration wrote and he signed…

  9. This needs to be approved by congress correct? Do executive orders come into force on the date signed or after passed by congress?

  10. 1928 all over again.

    We failed to educate and regulate in America.

    And we apologize to the world for the shitshow this will bring.

  11. I watched the WH press briefing. Trump has let all the *alternative* wackadoodle media in.

    You can’t scream fascism loud enough.

  12. Boomers really just want to fucking ruin this planet before they die

  13. But, but, but… all the corporate conservatives assured me this was all posturing and Trump wouldn’t *actually* do tariffs….

  14. Please destroy our country with retaliatory tariffs Canada. The people who voted Trump won’t be swayed by anything until it directly affects them, I hope, oh god please…

  15. So he says the weekend. Then says March. And now the weekend again? Weak leadership. Trump sucks

  16. US economic crash begins Monday, as soon as the stock market opens. Egotistical dipshit.

  17. I’m just disappointed in the US in general. I know almost half of you didn’t vote for this but as a country you used to be a beacon of hope, success and democracy for the rest of the world to emulate. Now it’s a circus and the head clown wears orange. When he eventually leaves, there will be a lot of wounds to heal before the world trusts you again

    -Canada

  19. Imagine putting greater tariffs on two historical allies than your current geopolitical rival.

    I don’t think Americans realize Canadian (and Mexican) resolve. We’re used to dealing with American bullshit, but now the Yanks will be dealing with ours

  21. Isn’t this going to position China to expand their trading relationship with these countries, which could, in the long term, could also expand China’s influence on our neighbor’s?

  22. America we aren’t just fucked. We are fucked fucked. I would love to thank more than half of America for being more dense than my roommates dog who eats his own fucking shit 💩 🤡

  23. Trade alliance between Canada, Mexico and China starts Sunday

  24. Welcome to the real great depression. This is going to be very bad.

  25. I’m curious what two of these countries have done to deserve this

  26. He is among the dumbest people to take office.

    He has ultra right wing advisors and he is ruining our economy.

    He will go down in the history books as an even worse president than his first term and that’s hard to beat.

    It’s obvious to the world and to America how much the people disapprove of him.

    The ones the love him are of course blinded but soon will have their way of life impeached on.

    They will ultimately disown him. First it takes our education, Medicare and Medicaid social security, drug prices, food prices, oil prices to be impacted for those idiots to understand the negative impact he and his admin have.

  27. Somehow the worst part is that prices will spike – tarrifs will be removed…and prices will stay the same.

    Fuck all of you who voted for this or abstained from voting because “both sides bad” was all your brain could process.

  28. We are at the mercy of a complete idiot. He doesn’t want to look weak, but everything he does blows up in his face. Then he brags about how he fixes it. He creates the problems that need to be fix, but he blames everyone else for his failures. We live in Clown Town.

  29. I think Agent Orange needs to make up his polluted mind. Feb 1st or March 1st? Fuck that Nazi. It’s time he pulls a Hitler’s Bunker.

  30. Hope farmers are ready to need another bail out after all their fertilizer is magically more expensive.

  31. 25% on Canada and Mexico and only 10% more on China makes the whole thing objectively great for China.

    China legitimately prefers this over if all 3 had +0% tariffs, they are going to completely outcompete Canada and Mexico in basically every sector.

    So much for all of Trump’s posturing about China over the years, he just singlehandedly gave them the greatest economic advantage the US has ever lifted China

  32. There is not a single redeeming quality of a US republican, they are a cancer on the world.

  33. People say it’s a threat for
    Short term bullying to get his way.

    I don’t think you realize once a company raises it prices it won’t lower them even if the tarrifs are gone 3 months after being enacted those prices will stay becuase they are priced into the stock and profit increases for shareholders.

    Weeeeeeeooooooo

    Pandemic shortages of aluminum we were told soda will. Cost more due to it.

    Years later a 12 pack of Coca Cola is 10$ or more it used to be 4-6$ .

    That price hasn’t come down nor will it . Pandemic shortages ended a while ago yet we still are paying the markup prices all over

  34. I can’t believe how quickly the U.S is deciding to stomp on their “closest ally” when Canada is already in a tough spot. Without the tariffs we were projected to begin a recession in the coming months, and are technically in one already. All because Americans couldn’t be bothered to get off their ass and vote for a candidate that didn’t have the mental acuity of a literal toddler. Instead, the toddler won all 3 chambers of government because Americans related to him more???

    My questions for Americans are this:

    How are we supposed to increase defence spending to over 2% when you guys are subjecting Canada to the largest trade war Canada has ever faced?

    How do you feel about ceding almost all of your soft power for nothing in return? Like what’s happening now will only accelerate the issue that allied countries don’t trust you, and the economic impacts will push countries to not use USD as the global reserve currency. When that finally happens, you guys are *so fucked*.

    Republicanism, or trumpism, whatever the hell history will call it, will be a chapter in every future history book detailing how the collective stupidity of a group of easily manipulated voters can destroy nearly a century of foreign policy.

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