Trump promises to levy 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada

President-elect Donald Trump is vowing to implement the tariffs on both countries on his first day in office.

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[posthocprior]

A few random stats: 1) 8% of all natural gas is imported from Canada. In January and February, when domestic natural gas supplies are low, the states of ID, MT, and ND heavily rely on Canadian natural gas. 2) 69% of all vegetables sold in the US are imported from Mexico 3) 52% of all voters, according to exit polling, voted for Trump because of the reason of inflation. This is going to be the biggest social experiment; the politician who won votes because of inflation and won office, the first thing he's going to do is implement tariffs which will cause inflation to raise. It feels like we're living in a game show called, "How stupid is the average American voter?"

[joelpineda]

Get ready for the billionaires to tell us we have to suffer threw some tuff times.

[FORKandFIFTIES]

Why is he messing with our allies and our Americans livelihood! Idiot

[tllt]

How will charging Americans more for good help keep drugs from crossing the border?

[Amerigrad]

If you've ever wondrred how much of a moron you'd have to be to bankrupt a casino, now you know.

[williamshaw]

Tariffs are taxes on the working class.

[mvann]

Cars will cost more except for Evs, so Musk can make more money. Got it.

[jerryramsey]

High tariffs on Mexico and Canada? This will cost the consumer which is you? Trump Country? Remember you voted for it?

[brianlawson]

And how many times has Trump declared Bankruptcy?

[ericamartinez]

Mexico's response to a Tariff would be a Tariff. Hahaha

[joesian]

We are the ones paying for it with higher prices. Hello real inflation 😂

[JHam]

Knowing him, it’s a way to influence the stock market so he can benefit personally.

[jancurtis]

The Keystone Pipeline is owned by Canada. 😛😜🤪

[porkyrabbit]

71 million ppl in the country voting for a man because of the
"price of goods are too high", only for him to increase prices on his first day in office, has to be regarded as one of the greatest social experiments of all time.

[waynereid-kw]

The king will find a way to funnel this windfall to his own pocket

[InformedandBlessed]

Never heard any concern about caravans coming from Canada since 2016 until now.

[bluenoon]

Congrats all of you who voted for Trump 😅

[americafirst]

LOL The last time president Trump was going to put tariffs on Mexico they sent the Mexican military to their southern border.. Also the remain in Mexico policy started then!.. Just saying

[wolfecanada]

No problem. We'll just apply your own tariff to the energy we sell you that powers half the eastern seaboard. Oh, you don't like that? Too bad, we'll do it to the oil you import. Did you know Canada is your largest supplier of oil? Bring it on.

[davidgough]

As Canadian citizens, that would kill our economy with massive layoffs across the country. Our dollar would tank to third world levels cause Canada to shut our border down like Covid to the United States to battle the problem... 😢