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Trudeau couldn’t talk to him until then and it wasn’t because of a lack of trying.
All of this was theatrics to give Trump an appearance of strength.
See you in 30 days for more of that same bullshit.
I came to see the spin on how we caved, which I’m sure we did somehow, but:
Trudeau in his tweet said, “I just had a good call with President Trump,” and suggested that the pause on tariffs was in response to Canada’s agreement to target the flow of the deadly opioid fentanyl across the border into the United States.
As I’ve already said too much today, 2023 numbers are apparently 43 pounds. Should be easy enough to target.
Trump’s pause on tariffs on Mexican imports likewise came after Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum said she would immediately send 10,000 soldiers to the U.S. border to prevent drug trafficking, fentanyl in particular, from Mexico.
I think we should do that for other reasons so thanks.Edit: misunderstood by me and no longer in the same context in the article. But also we already live at the border, and we should send some, and we can repurpose them to help defend Greenland or Panama.
Trudeau said Canada had made new commitments “to appoint a Fentanyl Czar,” among other measures.
Already have one as part of ministerial stuff, but if he can’t understand that, a simple name change when speaking should do.
Edit: article updated since I copied all that (together). It’s fairly different now and shittier.
Good shit, turns out Trump’s misunderstanding of Tariffs works in multiple directions.
I wonder if this was their scheme to tank markets, crypto and stocks, in order to buy more and have it pump again.
I’m really disapointed not by the halt of the tarrif war but about how trudeau already forgot any support canadian products and diversifying trade partners
wonder if Trump is doing this just for market manipulation for family and friend’s trading
Trump is like Vinny in My Cousin Vinny when he thinks he sweet talked the prosecutor into turning over his files.
We caved, and now that orange asshole is pushing for access to our banks. Looks like this was what he wanted all along.
Motherfucker.
In a social media post after his first call with Trudeau wrapped earlier Monday, Trump chastised Canada for not allowing U.S. banks to “open or do business there.”
Until this point, Trump has framed the threatened tariffs as a way to hit back at Canada for the ongoing trade deficit and supposed inaction on drugs and migrants crossing the northern border into the U.S. — his stated concerns about banking fairness are a new development.
Personal banking in Canada is largely the domain of Canadian-based banks, due to stringent federal regulations designed to protect against bank failures. According to government figures, Canada’s large banks hold more than 93 per cent of all domestic banking assets. Canadian banks are routinely ranked among the safest in the world.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-trump-speak-trade-war-1.7448805
This gives enough time to Canada to prepare and plan. This will be everyone’s worst year ever.
Sure, cave just like Mexico and give orange bully more confidence in blackmailing. WCGW?
Nah, Mexico and Canada are just doing things they had already planned to do and telling Trump what he wants to hear. They’re just pretending the tariff announcement was part of their decision making so our idiot in chief feels like he did something. He’s such a child it hurts me to think about how millions of my fellow Americans are so goddamn stupid that they voted for him. Like, how can I not be angry with people who voted for Trump, they enabled this and it’s awful.
Anyways MX & CN are not caving at all, just illustrating how stupid our president and all of this is.
I see this less as caving to the bully and more grown-ups playing with a child. They know they can just nod their heads and play in Trump’s fentanyl fairytale land for a phone call, and that gives them a whole extra month for more trade deals that will make them less reliant on the U.S. The only one losing here is Trump, who just looks like a petulant toddler getting played like a rube, but I suspect he’s too stupid to see it that way.
This, but unfortunately the power dynamic is a little different than a usual grownup-toddler one. This toddler has a world destruction button next to his firefighter truck and could decide to play with that instead at any time something doesnt go his way.
They got nothing new. I’m far from a nationalist, but even I’m ok with strengthening our border with these American sleeze balls at this point. If anything I think Trudeau played him like a fiddle - “sure Donald, we’ll give you all this “new” spending to curb fentanyl at the border” literally a non-existent issues and money that’s already been spent.
