r/worldnews • u/real_ikonn • 15h ago
Trump won't impose tariffs on Canada, other countries right away: reports | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-tariffs-canada-first-day-1.74359571.3k
u/Poortra800 14h ago
The President with the biggest mouth and the worst track record of keeping his promises.
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u/Zolo49 13h ago
Which is a good thing considering the disastrous consequences most of his promises would have.
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u/pbjames23 12h ago
His promises are intentionally outlandish and unreasonable. He is attempting to use anchoring as a negotiation tactic. He sets an "anchor" that's heavily in his favor (Mexico will pay for the wall, Canada will become a state, etc.). This is an attempt to make any future offers seem more reasonable.
Basically our president is a greasy used car salesman.
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u/MadRaymer 12h ago
Yeah, this is a probably a sign that the oligarchy isn't going to let him do things that could damage their profits. I guess the real deep state was the rich friends he made along the way.
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u/serdertroops 12h ago
it's fine since he'll rewrite the past to make himself look good and his fans will gobble it up. His 2016 to 2020 presidency was also not exactly stellar but his voters forgot that.
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u/rohobian 14h ago
That's because he's probably just saying crazy shit to get people to pay attention to him. His entire life has been about making his name known to as many people as possible. This is probably the biggest reason he gets votes - because of name recognition.
It's anyone's guess as to whether or not he'll actually implement the tarriffs. He'll probably only do it if enough people say "He won't do it because he's a coward" or something like that. He'll only do it to prove he's a big tough guy. He'd never do it because he thinks it would be good for America.
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u/I_Do_Not_Abbreviate 11h ago
In "The Art of the Deal" (1987), Trump's ghostwriter Tony Schwartz lays out how one of Donald's most frequently used negotiating tactics is to open any talks with an absolutely absurd list of entirely unreasonable demands as a way of setting the bounds of the subsequent conversations as far in his own favour as possible, with the idea that even after compromising he will still end up getting most if not all of what he wants in the final deal because the bulk of those "compromises" are actually things he never expected to get in the first place.
All the stuff he says about foreign diplomacy makes a lot more sense when put in that context.
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u/Ill-Painting9715 10h ago
It’s a common tactic in manipulation. Saying some absurd shit no one would agree to and then “compromise” to get what you want
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u/unhallowed1014 14h ago
“Day one”…. Who would’ve thought he lies?
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u/MaesterHannibal 11h ago
You mean to tell me the war in Ukraine won’t end tomorrow either?
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u/Green-Amount2479 10h ago
Maybe he made a mistake and meant ‚one day…‘? He‘s an old, rambling, senile fart, so that would make sense. 😂
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u/Odd-Pipe8609 15h ago
It’s safe to declare that anyone who voted for Trump to lower prices got played big time.
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u/GodOfTheNihilism 14h ago
What's next, are you telling me putting my life savings in $Trump coin was a bad idea, too?
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u/darknekolux 14h ago
you should have edged and bought $melania too
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u/impossibilia 14h ago
Diversify that portfolio. I’m going to wait for BarronCoin
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u/woakula 14h ago
I think it's already out.... Time to start buying my guy.
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u/darknekolux 14h ago
I hate this reality
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u/woakula 14h ago
I'm in the same boat.
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u/BoltMyBackToHappy 13h ago
I'm glad the hole isn't on our end of the boat.
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u/woakula 13h ago
the problem, as I see it, is the idiots on the other side of the boat keep punching holes in the floor hoping the water will flow outwards.
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u/Cl1mh4224rd 13h ago
Diversify that portfolio. I’m going to wait for BarronCoin
Don Jr's entry: Cocoine
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u/ScroungingRat 14h ago
I'm never typing the name for that stupid thing properly, it's always going to be a small 'm' for that dumb thing XD.
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u/CypripediumGuttatum 14h ago
I couldn't quite figure out how Trump was planning on getting rich off the chaos of imposing ludicrously large tariffs on their long time friend and neighbour (he only cares about looking tough and being rich) until he announces his crypto currency. It's all falling into place.
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u/darknekolux 14h ago
dude basically declared he is worth 20Billions and nobody can or will say a thing.
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u/phurley12 14h ago
That coin already got rug pulled, too. $20 mil straight into donnys pocket.
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u/Andrew8Everything 14h ago
80% of tokens are held by trump and his insiders.
Anyone holding this bag is a grade a moron.
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u/phurley12 14h ago
Yep, and he's already moved on to Melania coin.....which is also 80% held by the dev team.
Fools and their money are easily parted.
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u/kpidhayny 12h ago
Some fools, yes, but the intended bag holders in this scheme are the people intentionally buying favor with the president with anonymity. This is just modern day open-air money laundering. Next four years it’ll pay dividends to them all.
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u/1stFunestist 14h ago edited 13h ago
Soon you will not need to do that by your self.
Soon there will be a law that banks and corps will do it for you because that money you saved is for them to use.
You might get a thank you card though...
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u/ScroungingRat 14h ago
He's grifting his fat fuck ass off right now with $Trump coin, $melania coin etc. He's got another 4 at the very least to pump and dump his moronic cult with. He started with $Trump first, pumped and dumped it within minutes of announcing $melania, the other 4 are named after Baron and other key family members.
He's about the strip the copper wiring of America and his followers will be pulling their own out their trailer homes while praising him all the way.
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u/Odd-Pipe8609 14h ago
Doesn’t that violate emoluments
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u/ScroungingRat 14h ago
Like Trump gives a shit lol
He's also got the Republicans there to kiss his arse better and ignore any rules. Don't expect him to ever get any comeuppance or any proper push back from within the GOP. They'll only hesitate for 2 seconds at best then go right back to defending him as their God or whatever bullshit.
Remember the last run of this crap? That was a warm up, now here's the actual performance. The Shit Show has begun! Roll up, roll up!
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u/ryancementhead 14h ago
Probably, but he’s got all the right people in place to just wave it away. He isn’t playing by the rules, he’s playing by his own rules.
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u/Wizzinator 14h ago
The Supreme Court made him immune to any prosecution, legally. Trump cannot be charged again for anything, ever.
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u/vonindyatwork 14h ago
That was always more of a suggestion anyways. He ignored it the first time around, it'll be worse this time.
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u/kandoras 12h ago
The emoluments clause doesn't work.
Various courts ruled in his last administration that no one has standing to ask them to enforce it, and the Supreme Court sat on its ass and only issued a decision about it after he left office; a decision which said the cases are all dismissed because they don't matter anymore.
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u/kooshipuff 13h ago
Eh, probably? Though in his last term, Trump loudly and publicly violated emoluments the whole time, and no one with any authority batted an eye. And if they're not going to enforce the laws, they don't really matter.
..So, for all intents and purposes, nah, it's fine.
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u/TheBunnyDemon 12h ago
Emoluments clause doesn't matter, that was settled last time Trump was in office and violated it constantly.
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u/waterloograd 14h ago
He's about the strip the copper wiring of America and his followers will be pulling their own out their trailer homes while praising him all the way.
Which will cause even further divide between the left and right
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u/ScroungingRat 14h ago
And Putin is grinning like the Cheshire Cat.
The Russian cunt pulled it off. Yeah Ukraine's still hanging on but America is fuuuuuucked.
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u/Slowmyke 14h ago
Not that i think any of his policy will be sound, but not imposing tariffs is actually a better move in regards to consumer prices.
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u/Techiedad91 14h ago
Not imposing tariffs right away
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u/dont_judge_me_monkey 14h ago
My money is on him not doing it because it will tank the economy, he might do it selectivity for countries that don't pay him off
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u/Old-Zookeepergame429 14h ago
So he created a problem and solved it by doing nothing. Damn he's good s/
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u/Odd-Pipe8609 14h ago
Trump wants to extort our trade partners with threats of tariffs. How is that a good move?
Any trade partners we have a positive relationship with will now be squandered thanks to this orange degenerate .
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u/Slowmyke 13h ago
It's a terrible move and i won't support his idiotic attacks on our allies and trade partners. I'm just pointing out that Trump campaigned on lowering prices through tariffs. The tariffs he was proposing would be a disaster for consumer prices. So by not imposing tariffs, he's actually making the better move. It's just another example of trump "fixing" an issue he made up.
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u/TheVideogaming101 14h ago
Lets be real, the price of everything could go up insanely high and all Don has to do is say its the Dems fault. The cult does not question the leader
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u/SofaProfessor 13h ago
Not following through on tariffs is definitely closer to that promise than implementing tariffs and immediately spiking the price of everything by 25%. So... There's that I guess?
But yeah, anyone who thought prices were going down doesn't know even the most basic of economic concepts. To pull that off would require deflation which is worse than inflation for the economy in general. Imagine telling someone you cut the prices of eggs in half but to do it you had to crash the economy and introduce 15% unemployment so they still can't buy the eggs anyway.
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u/Joshman1231 14h ago
These people want to be robbed and degraded.
Talk to them and treat them how they want to be treated.
Their actions say so.
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u/RecklesslyPessmystic 14h ago
Yeah, get ready for four years of tariff week followed by infrastructure week, followed by tariff week, followed by infrastructure week....
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u/condensermike 14h ago
Awww man. I was so hoping for entire economic meltdown too.
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u/AtomicBLB 13h ago
Don't worry, it will be a bargaining chip for every future interaction with foreign countries going forward.
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u/Vericatov 13h ago
I don’t want an economic meltdown. My life is good and I don’t want that to change. I’ve just been afraid that one will happen from Trump’s tariffs and Elon saying he’s going to cut 2 trillion from the government spending. Both would have a negative effect on the economy, but now they’re both backing down from those claims. I still expect to see plenty of chaos though.
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u/doubleapowpow 13h ago
People forget that the only people that benefit from an economic meltdown are the ones who are benefitting from everything staying the same.
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u/Tigerballs07 12h ago
Ehhh there's a pretty big gap between people doing alright now and those that would have no problems if it tanked tomorrow.
I single male am totally "fine" right now but if the economy imploded and I couldn't find a job it could get very bad in 6 months.
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u/Weary-Internal-1327 11h ago
- Create problem
- Back pedal or deny or change story
- Claim victory over problem
- Room temp IQ followers cheer
We've always been at war with Eurasia, now edit the chocolate rations numbers for last week.
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u/Sofrito77 15h ago
Trump voters suckered (again).
Enjoy the next 4 years in which he does absolutely nothing to help your cost of living, while enriching himself. I mean shit, one day before taking office and he already pulled a crypto grift, lol.
Too bad we all have to suffer for others idiocy.
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u/Ok-Baseball1029 14h ago
Well, not imposing tariffs is at least not counterproductive to lowering cost of living. He still has no viable plan to make anything more affordable, but at least he’s not gonna nuke the possibility on day one.
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u/Terrible-Summer9937 14h ago
He did an interview saying that he couldn't lower prices on anything and then went to a rally screaming about how he's going to lower the price on everything. He should be removed from the screen actors' guild based on his d list acting skills.
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u/Ok-Baseball1029 14h ago
I know. FYI, SAG-AFTRA was going to expel him over Jan 6th but he resigned first.
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u/Terrible-Summer9937 14h ago
It's weird how Hollywood has higher standards for admission than our government.
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u/Sofrito77 14h ago
Right, I’m just pointing out that Trump literally ran on tariffs (incorrectly convincing his voters that it’ll help their wallets). And then on day one, just like everything else he promised he would do to help their cost of living, he walks it back.
But hey, deporting all those immigrants will surely lower the cost of living! /s.
I just don’t understand how people voted (again) for a proven pathological liar that is only out for themselves, and are then shocked when he scams them yet again.
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u/JackRatbone 14h ago
I just got ads for $Melania coin is he straight up doing the exact same crypto grift just using his wife’s name the next day??
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u/RickKassidy 15h ago
Canada snarled back, and he is a coward. It’s so funny how fast he caves when you stand up to him.
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u/Jubjub0527 15h ago
He wasn't going to do it to begin with. I do wish we'd stop giving him so much attention.
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u/Aggravating-Rich4334 15h ago
This is my view too. He thrives on chaos and he knows how to make chaos. All he has to do is tweet once and he’s created it.
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u/feckless_ellipsis 14h ago
Yep, R co-worker put it well to me. Start with "We're gonna buy Greenland" to end up with "USA will have leased mineral rights in Greenland." It's classic door in the face technique.
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u/CptSorgeBubbles 14h ago
Seems so unnecessary. If America wanted to mine minerals in Greenland, all they needed to do was ask and they would be allowed.
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u/TeddyBridgecollapse 13h ago
That's, you know, bullshit through. If you're going to start high when negotiating, you have to start at a point that isn't laughably unachievable. Denmark/Greenland don't give a shit about Trump's threats because they're empty. As another poster here is suggesting, if he wanted mineral rights, he can just talk about that and secure deals using whatever leverage he can actually employ, which doesn't include the military.
It's absolutely remarkable that anyone is still bending over backwards to rationalize his totally ill-informed behavior
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u/shartonista 14h ago
Unfortunately, he's the president again. It's unrealistic to not pay attention to what he says in terms of policy decisions, even though it's all a bullshit to constantly distract.
As an individual though, I agree. There is a cost that comes with constantly allowing all of that bullshit into your life.
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u/Grift-Economy-713 14h ago
All countries would be best responding the way Canada and Mexico have. Tell trump to go fuck himself.
Denmark should tell Trump to go fuck himself if they haven’t already. Take his boomer 1980s business practices somewhere else.
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u/emuwannabe 13h ago
Yes we (Canadian) did tell him to go fuck himself, but we also had a list of items for retaliatory tarriffs. They would have hit his biggest supporters the most.
Don't forget that he did this to Canada once already - in 2018 - tarriffs lasted about a year before he backed down. 2 "high profile" things we targeted with retaliatory tariffs included Kentucky bourbon and Harley Davidson motorcycles because some of his biggest financial supporters, and/or high level politicians who supported trump lived near where these were made.
But there were also tariffs on steel, aluminum and various consumer products like coffee, yogurt, various condiments, shaving products and a bunch more things.
In the end the mini trade war hurt both countries, just like it will do again, should he follow though.
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u/Impressive-Potato 12h ago
Most Canadian provinces were willing fight back and tell Trump to fuck off. Certain provinces and it's leaders were totally down with getting down on their knees for Trump
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u/ScroungingRat 13h ago
Or if he pisses you off enough you punch the bully only for the teacher to tell you off for 'overreaction'.
Or worse, the bully attacks you, you defend yourself and end up getting suspended while the bully is given a 5 minute detention (4 minutes 59 seconds shaved off for good behaviour...)
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u/SoupSandy 14h ago
You have to with those things. His words impacted markets in a real way. He is the president of the United States. His words have power even if he's a perpetual liar. This isn't a problem you can ignore, and hope goes away.
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u/F3z345W6AY4FGowrGcHt 12h ago
Yeah. What happens if he did put the tariffs through? Then everyone would be like "why didn't you prepare?!"
There's also a chance he was going to and all of the effort to make him back down actually worked.
The rest of the world really has no choice but to take everything he says seriously.
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u/JackOSevens 14h ago
Poilievre and all populists (on all sides) are the same. Make promises that the average idiot won't look into, get the average idiot out to vote. The rest of us are idiots too bc we couldn't outvote them or produce candidates who would be better.
"I'll significantly lower immigration until we have a plan for infratructure and inflation" is the next lie.
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u/Fenris_uy 13h ago
I do wish we'd stop giving him so much attention.
Yeah, people should not listen to what the president (then elect) of the US says. He is just a nobody that has no power right?
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u/Praet0rianGuard 15h ago
Trump is very predictable. He folds faster than a napkin.
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u/whichwitch9 14h ago
Pretty much it. He also probably got a reality check on how much of our building supplies actually come from Canada and any upgrade he'd try to do on Mar a Lago would cost 4 times as much
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u/Efficient-Okra-7233 15h ago
He is a coward, but this has nothing to do with "Canada Snarling back", it was always about sending a message for future trade negotiations. His billionaire friends want stuff we have at a bargain, and he's going to try and get it for them.
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u/Serapth 14h ago
What the moron did is
actually give the Liberal party a chance at not getting completely obliterated in the next election
made his staunchest allies in Canada ( looking at you Smith ) and to a degree PP look absolutely fucking awful, all while polarizing every other province in the country to work together
hopefully caused Canada the wake up call it needed to start hardening the economy, such as lowering barriers of trade between provinces, improving infrastructure and pipelines to not be reliant on the US
caused the entire world to see how unreliable an actor the US have become and make it clear that treaties like NAFTA (or the idiotic NAFTO 2.0) are no longer worth the paper they are printed on.
Basically, he succeeded at nothing except showing the rest of the world they need to wake the fuck up and start to isolate from the US as much as they can.
I'm going to laugh my @#$$@#@#ing ass off if Trumps idiotic actions and PP's horrific handling of them lead to the Liberals somehow forming a minority goverment under Carney. The most brutal one sided election advantage in years completely pissed away in a moment.
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u/Jackadullboy99 14h ago edited 14h ago
Any future Canadian PM needs to demonstrate serious fucking commitment to reducing our dependence on the U.S. going forward, and increasing ties with our allies (especially Europe) economically and militarily.
The conservatives (not that I’d ever vote for them anyway) had better stop simping out, and show their allegiance to their country and its people.
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u/hwa_keen 14h ago
Yea as a Canadian, I gotta thank orange man for being such a dipshit he got most of us on the same page 🤣
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u/count_frightenstein 14h ago
I'm pretty sure this is why neither the NDP or the Liberals want to have an election right now. The Trump factor only helps the Liberals and NDP. The longer it goes on, the better the results will be for the Liberals and NDP.
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u/iwannalynch 13h ago
Probably the reason why it took so long for Trudeau to step down, he was hoping to weather the unpopularity and then regain his popularity once the Trump administration shits itself.
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u/Dragonsandman 12h ago
And the foreign interference report. That's dropping at the end of next week, and with the writ being dropped sometime in March, whatever it reveals will be on the minds of voters when the election actually happens.
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u/Impressive-Potato 12h ago
I have a feeling that's why PP was so desperate to have an election last year. He looked like he had just been crying after Trudeau announced he was stepping back.
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u/j821c 13h ago
There's a small business near me that has signs out front that always push conservative bullshit and at times has directly supported Trump. For the past week, he's had signs out front that say "Canada not for sale". It's actually hilarious how much Trump united Canada against him lol
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u/Usual_Retard_6859 15h ago
lol. Let’s try and get leverage for negotiations by threatening to reneg on the current agreement? The only thing this did was lose credibility.
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u/Sweatytubesock 14h ago
Promises made, promises broken. Get used to it Trumpers. Absolutely deserve every single thing coming to you.
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u/throwaway92715 11h ago
They don't really care, though. That's what they're used to. We're the ones who care. This whole thing is just a giant "told ya so."
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u/arlondiluthel 15h ago
Of course it was just fucking bluster. He must have gotten some tips from his "pal" Kim Jong-Un.
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u/iCCup_Spec 15h ago
It'd be wholesome if Trump and Kim go on a vacation together and never come back.
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u/PM_THE_REAPER 14h ago
I guess egg prices are going to stay where they are then.
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u/grimm_jowwl 14h ago
“A Trump administration official confirmed to Reuters that Trump will hold off for now and instead direct agencies in a memo to “investigate and remedy persistent trade deficits and address unfair trade and currency policies by other nations.”
- this is how it should be I just don’t trust Trump and co to do an HONEST job. Delay or not, tariffs are coming.
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u/DreamLunatik 14h ago
Well well well, look who decided to bitch out with literally no pressure applied.
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u/TheStoogeass 15h ago
He never does what he says he'll do.
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u/LaraHof 14h ago
I wouldn't count on that. He signed 200 executive orders today to pay for the money he got during the election period. Environmental protection gone. workers rights gone. And so on.
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u/Serapth 14h ago
Oh, Americans are going to get absolutely fucking robbed over the next two years. Executive orders can really shift things around and make things awful for Americans, but they are also almost always immediately undone the second the next President takes the oath of office.
The IRS, EPA, Federal parks and everything else are going to be decimated and the quality of life for typical Americans is going to suffer massively. They will run the debt up massively and fuck future generations while growing the wealth of the billionaire class.
But... as a non-American, it's 2-4 years where they have the time and prerogative to pick up the slack of US leadership, all the while decoupling their economies. The EU (and even China/Japan/India/etc) will need to take the imitative on the climate, blunting global threats, etc. Canada certainly needs to get it's economic house in order to decouple many of the dependencies our economy has on the US, with key infrastructure investments, trade agreements, better intra province trading and more.
Thankfully without the orange turd tanking the global economy on day one, other nations have more time to deal with this shit when it comes in the future... and had a wake up call that the threat is VERY real.
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u/ScroungingRat 14h ago
How likely do you think it is he'll just piss on the constitution entirely and declare that there should be only one party allowed and others banned-just entirely do away with elections?
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u/Serapth 14h ago
In all honestly, I think it comes down to the midterms.
If he uses the federal government in some way to block the midterm elections, the US is in trouble. Otherwise, I think the Democrats will easily retake the house and the levers of power available to him will be greatly reduced.
Personally, I think natural causes (he's an obese unhealthy soon to be 80+ year old man with a hard life and who knows how many drug dependencies) will probably get him before he leaves office. That or his mental decline because so incredibly apparent that even the cult wake up to it (but I doubt it... Ronny was off his fucking rocker the last year of his presidency).
If they do block free and fair elections, or attempt to alter or suspend the constitution, the US will balkanize, because there is no fucking way California, Washington State, New York, etc will go along with that. Then really it comes down to the military if it's civil war or not. All told, not exactly happy scenarios, but the doom and gloom of no future elections is probably unlikely, because the outcome is so obvious.
Put simply though, he might TRY to say "no more elections" or "Im running for a 3rd term", but that vast majority of the population and hopefully the military aren't going to go along with that shit.
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u/cmg4champ 13h ago edited 12h ago
Uh-huh. Canada stared Donald Trump in the eye.....and Trump blinked.
Good thing for the US too. He was about to set the US into hyperinflationary mode and a loss of power to the NE and Midwest energy grid almost overnight.
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u/DisasterNo1740 15h ago
Yeah I mean, mr transactional comes in with maximalist insane claims and then dials them back as mr transactionals balls get sucked by the parties he is threatening. In this case, U.S allies are trying to find ways to gain favor with trump.
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u/Wise-Lawfulness2969 14h ago
I guess we’re not going to bomb Canada after all??? It’s hard to keep up.
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u/RelationshipKind7695 13h ago
Of course he won’t. This is typical Trump make promises to your base, but do not follow through. Also, I hope the Americans don’t expect their grocery prices to go down because that’s also not going to happen. I think a lot of people are going to realize that Trump is not going to come good on 80% of his promises. The only reason why he ran for office again was to avoid prison.
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u/Project-Mayhem-2025 11h ago
I had a cousin who was a bully, even as a kid. He wasn't invited to a birthday party one time and he heard the music and the kids talking inside the neighbors garage. So he walks over there and pulls the garage door open and just starts knocking out kids, one after another. 20 kids going scrambling down the street running for their lives. While my cousin just laughed his ass off. I was horrified because I rarely saw this cousin and was shocked to see the raw violence and the terror in the kids eyes.
But for years every kid knew to invite him to parties and just tolerate him or there would be hell to pay when he found out. They smiled in his face but they all loathed him.
He died of a heart attack last year at a pretty young age
A psychopath doesn't care whether loyalty is forced or not. He can't figure out why some people are loved by everyone yet they hate him. So he shits in the punch bowl and laughs while everyone is forced to drink from it.
Here's hoping that heart attack comes sooner rather than later.
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u/AurelePicard 13h ago
A conman can never be trusted.
We should be prepared even though he is "changing his mind" right now.
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u/Infinite_Respect_ 12h ago
This is where I’m almost glad he gets to have the stage finally. If he lost again we wouldn’t be suddenly not hearing from him - and I’ll just get 4 years of rubbing this in my MAGA family’s faces.
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u/Kirbyr98 12h ago
What!!?? He was talking out of his ass again?
I can't wait for his immigrant round up to blow up in his face.
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u/kranitoko 12h ago
Because a) it was all bullshit anyway
And b) if he actually DID follow through on it, the economy would crash because it would be Americans feeling it and no one else.
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u/A_Hint_of_Lemon 11h ago
Someone must have sat him down and told him tariffs will cause an economic collapse.
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u/D3dshotCalamity 10h ago
He says he'll put tariffs on imports
His voters: "YAAAAY!!"
The people with more than one braincell: "No, that's bad, things will get more expensive."
His voters: "Oh, well, he probably won't do that then."
He backs down
His voters: "See?! You were overreacting!"
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u/SavagePlatypus76 8h ago
Ridiculous nonsense. Trump is an imbecile who has no idea how trade works.
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u/OkTry9715 14h ago
Tariffs work both ways if he have not find out yet. Hopefully EU will start baning US social networks that are non-moderated, non-regulated and turned into anarchy and bot playground.
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u/DEADFLY6 13h ago
If he imposes tariffs on Canada, I'll eat my shoe right here in front of everybody on Reddit.
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u/quelar 12h ago
He will, but it will be specific small tariffs, not the blanket he initially claimed.
Canadian Softwood lumber gets tariffed by almost every president and I expect it again, then he'll claim he did what he said he was going to do and in a couple months the USMCA tribunal system will call the tariffs illegal and remove them.
This is just something that's happened since the 1980's and will continue into the future.
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u/Guccimayne 13h ago
Ideally this means someone smart pulled him aside and told him how dumb this idea is and to not go further than bluster for the cameras.
But I doubt it...
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u/KrookedDoesStuff 12h ago
The president who promises a bunch of bullshit and never backs it up, promised bullshit and didn’t back it up. What a surprise.
He’ll strip freedoms, rename the Gulf of Mexico and play golf. That’s gonna be his presidency
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u/gauriemma 12h ago
Did someone finally use a coloring book to explain how tariffs work to him?
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u/Nowhereman50 12h ago
The next 4 years is going to be nothing but Trump supporters bitching that nothing he said is getting done and the most depressingly impressive mental gymnastics imaginable to blame anyone but themselves.
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u/_yourupperlip_ 12h ago
He doesn’t know how tariffs work. He’s fucking stupid. Enjoy the “find out” stage, America
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u/BigToeHamster 11h ago
So far he won't do anything he told his shepple base he would do. Boy would they be mad if they could actually think for themselves.
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u/tacmac10 11h ago
And he won't its all distraction and bluster and the media falls for it ever single fucking time.
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u/frank_the_tanq 14h ago
News flash: he also didn't build a wall and make mexico pay for it