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We may have in the short term, a little pain, and people understand that. But long term, the United States has been ripped off by virtually every country in the world.”
The president also tried to clarify his post about the possible inflation, saying on Sunday We can play the game all they want."
Donald Trump is set to speak to the leaders of Canada and Mexico later but warned them against retaliating to his tariffs, saying Inflation might go up over the next nine months by as much ... as 1%, just at a moment when we were trying to bring it down,
he told CNN's “Inside Politics.” It's hard to know what more we can do, but we're obviously open to any other suggestions that come our way,
Canada's ambassador to the United States Kirsten Hillman told ABC News on Sunday The USA has major deficits with Canada, Mexico, and China (and almost all countries!), owes 36 Trillion Dollars, and we're not going to be the 'Stupid Country' any longer,
Will there be some pain? Yes, maybe (and maybe not!)
Trump wrote Sunday morning in all-caps on his Truth Social media platform Therefore, Canada should become our Cherished 51st State,
he wrote on Truth Social, claiming The 'Tariff Lobby,' headed by the Globalist, and always wrong, Wall Street Journal, is working hard to justify... the decades long RIPOFF OF AMERICA, both with regard to TRADE, CRIME, AND POISONOUS DRUGS."
Trump clapped back on Sunday, saying THOSE DAYS ARE OVER!"
said Trump, who began his Sunday with a visit to one of his golf courses in Florida American consumers will feel the bite of higher costs for some goods.
On Friday, the right-leaning editorial board of the Wall Street Journal newspaper blasted Trump's tariffs in a piece titled 'The Dumbest Trade War in History,' saying Mr. Trump sometimes sounds as if the US shouldn’t import anything at all, that America can be a perfectly closed economy making everything at home
Leaving China aside, Mr. Trump’s justification for this economic assault on the neighbors makes no sense,
We allow them to take lumber
Last month, Trump said of Canada specifically Without this massive subsidy, Canada ceases to exist as a viable Country,
Trump claimed, referring to what he called "hundreds of billions of dollars" in subsidies paid by the US to Canada If prices go up, it’s because of other people’s reactions to America’s laws,
his homeland secretary, Kristi Noem, said on NBC's “Meet the Press.” We don’t need anything they have. We have unlimited Energy, should make our own Cars, and have more Lumber than we can ever use.”
Trump railed against Canada's trade surplus with the United States But we will Make America Great Again, and it will all be worth the price that must be paid,