Biden did the same thing on the way out. He took actions against Russia's shadow fleet of oil tankers on the way out. But he never would do it while in office because he was afraid that it would drive oil up during his election campaign. Ditto in regard to permission to Ukraine to strike deeper into Russia in the last few weeks of Biden's time. He refused to allow it because he was afraid of the escalation but he enabled it as soon as Trump was coming in so that he/Biden would look like a ballsy supporter of Ukraine. In reality, Biden wanted Ukraine to just maintain. Enough support to survive but not enough to win. He was always afraid of escalation.
Trump is trying to offset his tax cuts with a regressive tax on consumers. To him this is the holy grail. A panacea. People are scratching their heads asking why Canada? Because they’re a large trading partner and there will be a lot of revenue. All of this shit about fentanyl is bullshit. Between tariffs and DOGE he thinks he has the whole thing figured out. The only problem is Trump is stupid. He’ll fold eventually if not tomorrow because the chaos it will cause will be too much pressure.
Trump has a weakness in that he loves to watch the stock market...pats himself on the back when the markets go up and blame the prior administration when the markets go down...the same with economic concerns. Tomorrow, Trump will either double down on the tariffs or react to today's market drop by making changes to the tariff war that he started as if to say he can show leniency...his narcissistic way of pretending he holds the cards to you having a better life if he allows it. wrbtrader
Trump is destroying your economy and eventually it's political suicide and makes for one hell of a losing legacy. The new candidates have already said they'll play hardball with Trump. Freeland already did she brokered the last trade deal with Trump, the one Trump forgot he made. I have no idea what "kiss the ring" means exactly we already prepared $155B in tariffs and Ontario's premiere is prepared to cut off the electricity to millions of Americans. $1B in liquor sales in Ontario are effectively cancelled already; US stock is removed from the shelves.