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THIS WILL BE THE GOLDEN AGE OF AMERICA! WILL THERE BE SOME PAIN? YES, MAYBE (AND MAYBE NOT!). BUT WE WILL MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, AND IT WILL ALL BE WORTH THE PRICE THAT MUST BE PAID.”
Trump defended the tariffs on Truth Social post
It would be nice if Donald Trump could start focusing on getting the prices down instead of making them go up,
Schumer said in a statement
That friendship and that cooperation has already yielded important results for Israel and the Middle East, including the historic Abraham Accords that President Trump led and which brought four historic peace treaties between Israel and its Arab neighbors,
Netanyahu saidI cannot negotiate and much less open a negotiation over the canal,
he previously saidChina is operating the Panama Canal and we didn't give it to China, we gave it to Panama,
Trump said late last monthThe ‘Tariff Lobby,’ headed by the Globalist, and always wrong, Wall Street Journal, is working hard to justify Countries like Canada, Mexico, China, and too many others to name, continue the decades long RIPOFF OF AMERICA, both with regard to TRADE, CRIME, AND POISONOUS DRUGS that are allowed to so freely flow into AMERICA,
Trump wrote
I think the Canadian people are going to expect that our government stands firm and stands up for itself,
Ambassador Kirsten Hillman said in an interview on the broadcast network
Our message is this is not something that Canada wants to do, this is not a path that we are interested in going down,
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We don't want to be here, we didn't ask for this,
Trudeau said at a Saturday press conference
Today's tariff announcement is necessary to hold China, Mexico, and Canada accountable for their promises to halt the flood of poisonous drugs into the United States."
The White House defended the move in a statement on X, sayingTonight, I am announcing Canada will be responding to the US trade actions with 25% tariffs against $155 billion worth of American goods,
Trudeau said at a press conference following an emergency meeting with Canada’s provincial premiersHe thinks he can buy Canada. He doesn’t know what we know—the Canadian spirit can never be broken, and Canada is not for sale,
Ford said from Windsor, Ontario_(cropped).png)
We will never again be beholden to the whims of one person in the White House,
Eby stated after the high-level talks between Trudeau and Canada’s provincial leadersWe are united. We will stand tall for Canada,
he saidWith Trump placing an additional 25% tariffs on Mexican and Canadian imports and adding 10% to the current tariff rate on Chinese imports (with limited carve-outs), one can say that this outcome comes close to representing the most hardlined approach of all the possible scenarios we had considered,
Weston wrote
The surprise for markets today isn’t so much Trump’s tariff announcements – largely as flagged,
said IG analyst Tony SycamoreMuch of what we export, involves imported inputs. Cars move back-and-forth across the border between five and 10 times during assembly. This makes the whole of North America much less competitive, relative to Europe and Japan,
Summers posted on X, formerly known as TwitterTariffs don’t cause inflation,
he saidDuring the day the world stood still, September 11, 2001 when we provided refuge to stranded passengers and planes, we were always there, standing with you, grieving with you, the American people together we’ve built the most successful economic, military and security partnership the world has ever seen, a relationship that has been the envy of the world,
Trudeau said
We need to protect Americans, and it is my duty as president to ensure the safety of all. I made a promise on my campaign to stop the flood of illegal aliens and drugs from pouring across our borders, and Americans overwhelmingly voted in favor of it."
Trump on his Truth Social platform