Summary
Trump defended his new tariffs on Canada, China, and Mexico as a response to the fentanyl crisis, but experts say overdose deaths have already been declining due to law enforcement efforts and naloxone distribution.
Critics argue tariffs will harm trade and cooperation while failing to curb fentanyl trafficking, most of which occurs at the U.S.-Mexico border. Just 10 lbs were seized from Canada.
Canada and Mexico condemned the tariffs, with Mexico threatening countermeasures.
Experts say naloxone access and cartel crackdowns, not tariffs, are driving overdose reductions.
INB4 Trump/Musk/RFK notice that “naloxone distribution” is a thing and abolish it, so fentanyl overdose deaths start going up instead of down.
That word has an “x” and more than 5 letters, it must be dangerous
— Them, probably.
Oh, another “Trump says [bullshit] but [yeah, it’s bullshit]”.
Look, I applaud that there are still heroic attempts to fact-check Trump but overloading our bs-detector is clearly his MO.
I think it’s safe to assume that everything he says is a lie or at least a huge exaggeration and save some energy to try and build up some resistance to what he’s freaking doing
It was never about Fentanyl for Canada. Such a red herring. Donny boy is such a liar . It was his way to try and get around the free trade agreement which he signed and said was the best free trade agreement. No country should ever trust the US again.
Ok, so US should be happy that Canada enacted tariffs to curb US smuggling drugs and guns into Canada.
Wouldn’t surprise me to learn that donvict is just doing this to manipulate markets for oligarchs to take advantage of.
Or that he’s doing it because he hates the Chinese and Mexicans and because his wife wants to bang Trudeau.
Fentanyl took over a huge market share of heroine users that got their heroine taken away by the US. Their agreement to leave the Taliban in power included stopping heroine production in Afghanistan. More than 80% of the heroine was produced there.
The war on drugs itself is the reason for fentanyl addiction. And it’s led by the US.
I’m pretty sure the reason is not the reason. Personally I feel like this excuse is just a push to tank smaller businesses so they can either fail altogether or be sold dirt cheap to the biggest corporations to eliminate competition and also fill the pockets if the biggest companies with even more useless money. Same thing for housing, push people out so companies can buy up as much land as they can.
