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What do you think, MAGA? Did you vote for that?
Not unless they go to the White House with pitchforks. He doesn't need them now.“If prices go up, it’s because of other people’s reactions to America’s laws,” his homeland secretary, Kristi Noem, said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
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Trump railed against Canada’s trade surplus with the United States: “We don’t need anything they have. We have unlimited Energy, should make our own Cars, and have more Lumber than we can ever use.”
Despite Trump’s assertion that the U.S does not need Canada, one-quarter of the oil that the America consumes per day is from its ally to the north. He reiterated his false claim that America subsidizes Canada.
Trump contended that without that surplus, “Canada ceases to exist as a viable Country. Harsh but true! Therefore, Canada should become our Cherished 51st State. Much lower taxes, and far better military protection for the people of Canada — AND NO TARIFFS!”
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About 60% of U.S. crude oil imports are from Canada.
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Larry Summers, treasury secretary in the Clinton administration, said the tariffs were “a self-inflicted wound to the American economy.”
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Outside analyses make clear that Trump’s tariffs would hurt the voters that he intended to help, meaning that he might ultimately need to find a resolution.
AP
"Spectacular" is one descriptor.
UPDATE 02/03/2025:
Hello, Senator John Kennedy. (I'm assuming his parents had high hopes for the man.)
