Canada

It's about making America Reich.

Fuck Donald Trump.

This guy is trying to bring back mercantilism.

Very disturbing.

US has an auto surplus with Canada. Vast overall trade, with exports 2% of GDP.

Tariffs are a sales tax that is somewhat regressive. What he's saying is more tax cuts for the rich can be financed by taxes on the non rich, but with a cost to production/output/employment too. Canada should be acting now, but sooner or later, if auto and other industry is destroyed, there are much higher value options than what's made in US, (and we subsidize auto industry heavily) and blacklisting US goods in Canada is not going to make the US richer, even if the oligarchs get lower taxes.

But the supremacist attitude to destroy Canada, whether or not "it pays off", is a betrayal that needs counter actions/diplomacy with others now instead of waiting/hoping that supremacist domination will be rationalized away.

In america the rich eat the poor

By america he means the rich folks.

So they're illegal then?

Trump was only able to enact these tariffs without sign off from Congress (which he would absolutely not get) because they were enacted under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. The act allows the president to apply certain controls over the economy so long as they're in response to a national emergency. At some point a while back either Trump or Biden, I forget which, declared a state of emergency over fentanyl. Trump is now using the tiny trickle of fentanyl coming from Canada as his justification for these tariffs because has to connect them to a state of emergency to enforce them.

If they're actually about making America richer (no matter how wrong he is about how that works) then they need approval by congress to go into force. Every single affected business in America should have standing to sue over that.

Okay, so it absolutely was market manipulation. A dump and pump. Cue the tariffs to be rescinded this afternoon.

He's missing an "e" there. It's about making America Reich.

The fun part about Trump's voter base is that when you point to this, they'll still say it was about fentanyl. That's the beauty of presenting contradictory facts: idiots will cherry-pick whichever one they think makes themselves correct and everyone else wrong.

The words of a weak, pathetic man.

translation for the masses: it's about "making america's rich, richer". he don't give a fk about you or me or anyone else. just those very few at the top (and even then, he don't care about them, either, unless they're giving him a cut or are a pathway to power)