Donald Trump Tells Canada To Become A State To Avoid His Tariffs
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Trump claimed Americans "don't need" Canadian lumber, energy or cars.

Summary

In a virtual speech at the World Economic Forum, Trump suggested Canada could become a U.S. state to avoid his proposed tariffs on imports.

The remark elicited gasps from the audience.

Trump claimed the U.S. does not need Canadian lumber, energy, or vehicles, vastly overstating the trade deficit between the two nations.

He reiterated his intention to impose tariffs, potentially as high as 25%, on imports from Canada and Mexico starting February 1.

Economists warn such tariffs would raise prices for U.S. consumers.

  • r0ertel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    12 days ago

    I’m going to keep posting this every time I see a reference to US tariffs against Canada.

    https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/15/beauty-eh/

    The TL;DR is that tariffs would violate the NAFTA / USMCA treaty in which Canada agreed to respect US copyright law in exchange for free trade. No free trade? Canada doesn’t need to respect US copyright any longer and can become a flourishing economy of products to compete with US products that are massively overpriced. Think printer ink and other stuff.

    • Paragone@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      You’re misunderstanding the situation, then, sorry…

      Trump isn’t rational, he is narcissistic-machiavellian-sociopathic.

      IF Canada retaliates like that, THEN Trump may well declare war against Canada.

      They would only need to drop a single large conventional-bomb on Ottawa, & then claim Canada as their “manifest destiny”, declaring all Canadians to be “illegal aliens & criminals”, & their “problem” would be “fixed”.

      He may not have the guts to do that this-week, but he is progressing psychologically, & the end-point of that progression, about 4y in our future, is as the most-murderous-dictator-on-the-planet.

      He will be the complete-set: narcissistic, machiavellian, psychopathic, nihilist, sadist, systemically-dishonest, & hate, before the transformation is complete.

      Tread carefully, when one is near a heavily-armed psychiatrically-defective giant, eh?

      _ /\ _

      • r0ertel@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        Sometimes I think you’re right. Other times I think that couldn’t possibly be true.

        I’ve studied many of the bigger wars and they’ve all mostly have been started by far less severe events. It’s scary that one person could wield all that power, unchecked and unaccountable.

        It sounds like it’s time to build a bunker.