White House says Canada has ‘misunderstood’ tariff order as a trade war, Mexico is ‘serious’ | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/white-house-mexico-is-serious-canada-appears-have-misunderstood-trumps-executive-2025-02-03/
White House says Canada has ‘misunderstood’ tariff order as a trade war, Mexico is ‘serious’ | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/white-house-mexico-is-serious-canada-appears-have-misunderstood-trumps-executive-2025-02-03/
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Oh we understand perfectly!
And love the attempt to divide Mexico and Canada – like that would work from someone whose word means nothing.
Canadians aren’t so easily gaslit…nice try. We understand exactly what the situation is.
We understand the plot
🖕 Trump
We understand.
Trump managed to unite Canadians more than we have been in decades.
He underestimated Canadians and he’s going to pay the price.
is the US just gaslighting allies now? what does this even mean?
White House is full of shit
Of course, it makes perfect sense. It will be ‘trade war’ only if Canada responds. And of course then Trump will be completely justified in protecting US economy from sudden and unjustified Canadian aggression.
Elect a clown, get a circus!
“No no no, you’re supposed to lie down and take it!”
“No, no, you weren’t supposed to fight back!”
It’s just a tariff bro!
Trump starts tariff war, immediately sees it’s gonna cost him money.
Let the backpedaling and spinning this into a win begin!
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WASHINGTON, Feb 3 (Reuters) – The White House said on Monday it has noticed that Mexico is “serious” about President [Donald Trump’s](https://www.reuters.com/topic/person/donald-trump/) executive order on tariffs, but Canada has “misunderstood” it to be a trade war between the neighboring countries.
Trump on Saturday [ordered sweeping tariffs](https://www.reuters.com/business/trump-readies-order-steep-tariffs-goods-mexico-canada-china-2025-02-01/) on goods from Mexico, Canada and China, demanding they stanch the flow of fentanyl and illegal immigrants into the U.S., kicking off a trade war that could dent global growth and stoke inflation.
“The good news is that in our conversations over the weekend, one of the things we’ve noticed is that Mexicans are very, very serious about doing what President Trump said,” Kevin Hassett, the director of the White House’s National Economic Council, said on CNBC.
“Canadians appear to have misunderstood the plain language of the executive order and they’re interpreting it as a trade war,” Hassett added.
When asked what Canada and Mexico must do to lift the 25% tariffs that Trump announced on Saturday, the president told reporters on Sunday they “have to balance out their trade, number one.”
“They’ve got to stop people from pouring into our country … they have to stop people pouring in, and we have to stop fentanyl. And that includes China,” said Trump, who announced an additional 10% tariff on Chinese goods.
The president also said the tariffs against the three largest U.S. trading partners, which take effect on Tuesday, might cause Americans some short-term pain, but “long term, the United States has been ripped off by virtually every country in the world.
“Trump also indicated on Sunday that the 27-nation European Union would be next in the firing line, but he did not say when.
Hassett, when asked if Trump’s policies will create more inflation, said one needs to look at all of the president’s policies together. “I think this is going to be one of the biggest supply-side positive shocks that we’ve ever seen,” he said.
The NEC director also said Trump will ultimately decide “what he’s going to call off and what he’s not” in terms of tariffs.
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I had plans to spend my vacation holiday in the US in the summer, gonna book a flight and visit Canada instead 🙂
As a European i’d rather visit Ottawa or Toronto and spend my money in a non-fascist country 🙂
Oh get bent. The White House made up lies about my country (and is still lying) and implemented tariffs, which starts a trade war.
We aren’t going to be gaslit about this.
Americans say White House has ‘misunderstood’ everything.
It’s like a bully telling the person he just punched in the face that they misunderstood what the punch was for and are surprised by the reaction.
Normal people do this all the time.
Recall the ambassador, if he can’t treat canadians with respect, I’m willing to stop all relationships with them for 4 years. Canadians have died for your flag, he’s a fool.
Trump has no chance. Canada has two things that he will never have:
Courage and Friends
The richest country in the world has been ripped off by every country? Lmfao does any American actually believe that? How stupid can you be
America is a clown show.
What’s to misunderstand? Trump literally said that there was “Nothing Canada and Mexico can do” to avoid tariffs.
Or did everyone conveniently forget that?
Did they also forget the “Annexation via economic means” comments?
How is that anything *but* a trade war???
I guess those women ‘misunderstood’ grabbed by the pussy as sexual assault
No you guys don’t understand, you weren’t supposed to fight back.
This will be the 2nd trade war that trump started and lost for no reason
They must think we are as dumb as their 51% Maga voters.
Since their 49% will just sit there and wait for 4 years and see what happens we shall make sure this never happens again and stop been mister and miss nice guys to them. We need to diversify who we sell to, they have made us way to dependent on them and we can make it by doing so. Their attitude of we are the best and fuck the rest need to stop this is bullying and its been going on way to long…mostly since WWII. They need to start respecting other nations. Having the biggest military doesn’t make you the best .
Translation…
AMERICA : PUNCHES
CANADA : PUNCHES BACK!
AMERICA : “Ouch guys! Oh my God that was sore! Thats so unfair, why did you do that we were only joking bro!”
Canada: Canada is ‘serious’, Mexico is ‘serious’, and the world is indeed paying close attention to the erratic ramblings of a narcissitic dotard being played like a puppet by a small cadre of corporate interests. Canada and the world understand; they’ve seen it before.
I dont think there was much to misunderstand. White House just tries to whitewash Trump idiocy
Sounds like when George quit his job and went back the next day like nothing happened
Donald J. Trump is a sexual predator, felon, multiple bankruptcy, charlatan masquerading as a president. On be half of all Canadians please America remove this stain on the Oval Office carpet. He has broken more than enough laws to use the legal system to tie him up in red tape for the rest of his life.
Trump just pardoned the most prolific fentanyl trafficker in the history of this country.
And yes, it is a trade war.
What part of ‘there is nothing Canada can do to avoid this’ was misunderstood? Idiot.
This is a message to MAGA, not to Canadians. It shifts blame from Trump to Canada by suggesting that the Canadian government is the one turning this into a trade war. When the prices go up and profits go down, Trump loyalists have been told who to point the finger at and so when the White House gives in, they can praise Trump for ending a trade war that Canada started.
Nothing new to see here folks, just the Piper playing music for the rats to follow
Trump’s latest rant today (Monday) is that he wants US banks given access to Canada but Canada has rules for financial stability unlike US. US banks have a high failure rate. Canada’s don’t.
“Canada is a bunch of freeloaders. We are imposing tariffs on Canada, and if they retaliate, we’ll double the tariffs.” – Trump
“We are retaliating.” – Canada
“Oh, we weren’t saying we were going to impose tariffs, you misunderstood us.” – Trump
What a clown. What was accomplished here? Burn all the goodwill with our closest ally and trading partner. Publicly tearing up a trade agreement to show how unreliable we are as to push other countries to trade with anyone BUT the US. All this for what, show how fast they’ll fold to anyone with any significant push back? Everything “accomplished” with this circus is negative for the country and it’s citizens.
E: I’m a vindictive person, Canada really should just keep the tariffs on even if Trump cowers. Tell him that if he pulls that sh again, that they’ll double them.
The White House doesn’t know what it’s fucking talking about.
Canada did not misunderstand. Trump ripped up our trade agreement that he signed into law and put tariffs in place. If he wanted to do what he is implying he is, he would have negotiated, not gone whole hog into punitive measures without first going through diplomacy. Due to his arrogance and ignorance, Canada is shifting its resources to Europe rather than south to the US. Today it is Aluminum, tomorrow everything else.
Its not a trade war, its a special monetary operation.
Trump is talking about using economic force to make us a state. That is his own words.
What are we misunderstanding ?
Yes, and Europe just misunderstood Hitler invading countries as a war too.
The way to avoid misunderstandings is to actually have diplomacy. Diplomacy is often boring and slow and the media doesn’t pay much attention to it. Biden was great at it. It would often seem he wasn’t doing much but he spent a lot of his time doing subtle diplomacy. Not like Trump walking in and knocking everybody’s blocks down like a kindergarten bully
U.S. – Shots fired.
Canada – Fires back.
U.S.- That’s not what we meant!
Rich asshole who never heard No in his life is told “no”
“Why, surely they misunderstood me.”
For fuck’s sake being an American is embarrassing right now. I constantly feel like I need to apologize to random strangers.
Lmao, White House is now panicking because they’ve realized how much of the American food and fuel systems are absolutely dependent on Canadian imports.
Sucks to be you guys! Fuck aboot and find oot.
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