On Monday, President Trump said he was pausing recently announced tariffs on Mexico and Canada for one month after speaking with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
“I just spoke with President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico. It was a very friendly conversation wherein she agreed to immediately supply 10,000 Mexican Soldiers on the Border separating Mexico and the United States,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
The president said the Mexican troops would be deployed to the border to “stop the flow of fentanyl and illegal migrants into our Country.”
Trump said the tariffs would be paused for one month while the US and Mexico negotiate some sort of deal related to the border. “I look forward to participating in those negotiations, with President Sheinbaum, as we attempt to achieve a ‘deal’ between our two Countries,” he said.
Sheinbaum also announced the pause on US tariffs and said she “had a good conversation with President Trump with great respect for our relationship and sovereignty; we reached a series of agreements.”
The Mexican leader added that the US is “committed to working to prevent the trafficking of high-powered weapons to Mexico.”
Later in the day, Trump spoke with Trudeau, and the Canadian leader announced a border plan to stop the flow of fentanyl. “I just had a good call with President Trump. Canada is implementing our $1.3 billion border plan — reinforcing the border with new choppers, technology, and personnel, enhanced coordination with our American partners, and increased resources to stop the flow of fentanyl,” Trudeau said.
Trump wrote on Truth Social that Canada agreed to “ensure we have a secure Northern Border, and to finally end the deadly scourge of drugs like Fentanyl that have been pouring into our Country, killing hundreds of thousands of Americans, while destroying their families and communities all across our Country.”
The conversations between Trump and Sheinbaum came two days after Trump signed an executive order to increase tariffs on Mexican and Canadian goods by 25% and imports coming from China by 10%. Trump has acknowledged that Americans may feel “pain” due to the tariffs since the cost is passed off to the consumer.
Reducing the flow of fentanyl into the US will be extremely difficult since its high potency means traffickers can smuggle massive numbers of doses in small, hard-to-detect packages.
The cost of tariffs is NOT always passed onto the consumer. Chinese products did not rise in price after Trump imposed tariffs in 2017-2018,
yes it is
Did you ever take Economics 101? Of course the prices went up.
Actually I did read somewhere that he's right. I guess it has a lot to do with if tariffs are viewed as temporary or permanent.
Where did you read that?
I think it was the NY times daily e-newsletter.
Tariffs are a long term strategy. They’re mostly harmful in the near term. They encourage domestic investment when used correctly.
Ian Fletcher wrote an excellent book on trade years ago. It will blow your mind.
The US does need wealth redistribution in one form or another, and tariffs are a flat tax.
Yes, tariffs are a long term strategy — for transferring wealth from workers and consumers to politically connected business cronies.
And their popularity is a demonstration proof that half the population is of below median intelligence.
In your faith, groups can never work together beneficially within states. However, that is not always the case.
Faith has nothing to do with it, and groups can certainly work together beneficially within states. Some of those groups might be voluntary associations engaged in non-criminal enterprises, others criminal gangs (the latter category includes the state itself). The latter groups only work beneficially for themselves.
"They encourage domestic investment when used correctly." And more often then not they are not used correctly.
OK, that’s true.
China just initiated more stimulus (ie devalued their currency)
Elon and Trump will repay you for your lumpen sacrifices
Trumpers are the poor in spirit
You can sell them anything
Oh God, no.
He just announced the creation of a sovereign wealth fund !!!!
You don't have a surplus moron.
Stocks are thirty percent overvalued.
Debt funded purchases of TSLA and DJT
What could possibly go wrong!
They surely won’t buy those two. And I agree that both are overvalued.
They will sell to devalue and than buy back their old devalued shares, what could go wrong?
The Donald stinks at math (imagine that, off a guy who could run a casino into bankruptcy).
10,000 Mexican troops to the border, hey ?
The US-Mexico border is 1,954 miles (10th longest in the world). Converting miles to yards and dividing by 100 to give football fields (excluding end-zone depth), then we have just about 3.4 empty football fields between each Mexican soldier offered up for "border security" if they were distributed evenly. And standing sentry 24/7.
Yes. Trying to stop the flow of drugs is impossible. Always has been. Legalization would bring society forward, but Trump doesn't seem to have the mental capacity to see that.
It really is an issue of safe supply. Fentanyl and its relatives added to otherwise less-potent street drugs has created this remarkable OD issue. Friend who’s a firefighter says in an average week, they attend more OD’s in progress than FIRES.
Still, I find it exceedingly queer that street drugs continue to be produced spiked with fentanyl. Most businesses of any legality discover a product of theirs causes harm (and will bring upon them massive federal legal woes) and they Stop Making That Thing.
Yet illegal-drug makers/sellers continue a practise that completely undermines their personal financial and legal longevity AND attracts negative attention to their wares and conduct ? That makes NO sense.
Unless there is an external agency maintaining a flow of dangerous drugs – either an Extreme Left plot to force legalization OR an Extreme Right ploy to kill off “undesirable” drug users.
Either, to me, are WORLDS more likely than meth sellers failing to notice for ~8 years that clients easily traced back to them have been dying from a spiking practise which actually costs the seller MORE than just selling straight or “inert-cut” product.
Does that mean Trump has a soft spot for female politicians…?!
The CIA can use that to their advantage.
Without fentanyl Americans will have to face reality unprotected.
Without fentanyl, weed, poppy seeds, heroine, magic mushrooms, Big Pharma mood altering drugs Americans would wake up, look at the real landscape and scream their primal scream for more drugs.
lol
Fentanyl isn't going away until the demand goes away. And the demand isn't going away. All drugs should be legal and regulated to make them as safe as possible, so people know what they are ingesting. The cartels would dry up and our street gang's income would be drastically cut.
well not like the especially deadly drugs
im ok with legalising everything else
Whether you’re OK with it or not is irrelevant.
People who want to use “especially deadly drugs” are going to do so whether they have your permission or not.
You can kill some of them off by making it harder for them to find reliable suppliers of known purity and strength.
But you don’t get to decide whether they use the stuff, whether they buy the stuff, or whether the stuff is sold to them.
Ditto to what Thomas Knapp said.
…and the responsibility for securing the borders of the USA falls to Canada and Mexico???
Yes … I’ve been finding that idea interesting too. So, we have this “best military in the world” funded to the tune of a trillion $ a year and we need our little cousins to the north and south to watch our border?
Why don’t we bring home the Euro stationed and Africa stationed and ME stationed forces and have them do their protecting where it’s needed?
"…..with great respect for our relationship and sovereignty…"
don't believe it for a minute.
As a citizen, I am sick and tired and ashamed for the insane criminal leadership we have and in a democracy no less, their crimes and the tons of lies justifying their crimes, which are the killing, slaughter of thousands of people mostly defenseless women and children.
There are no excuses for our elected officials, they know damn well of the brutal crimes they support and cover up with a blanket of lies.
Stop hiding behind the Bible and the Torah
Trump back down. Not surprising, he is coward when someone with power pushes back. Just like he was afraid of Iran when they blasted our air base after he ordered their general killed.
Many specialists see in Donald Trump a self-proclaimed important person who is constantly showing off.
He should understand that all countries loose out in a trade war, including the one that has started it.
Indeed, this country finds itself antagonizing its trading partners who then retaliate and gang up against it.
As the Wall Street Journal wrote a few days ago, that's the dumbest policy.
If true, the troops would actually help migrants crossing the border…!
That's just a total bullcrap…! Fentanyl is a pharmaceutical drug which sells cheaper in Canada than US…!
I saw a video of Sheinbaum after her phone call with Trump… She never talked about the 10,000 troops…!
I wrote this to the Premier of Manitoba on Monday: I believe the the main point of the tariffs is to do precisely what happened Friday and will likely happen again today: crash the US stock market, so that the billionaires can buy back their companies' shares on the cheap. Trump gets to look like he accomplished something as he'll claim what we already know: that there's "no longer" such a big problem, or that Canada did his bidding. Same thing may or may not apply with Mexico.
I wrote this to the Premier of Manitoba on Monday: I believe the the main point of the tariffs is to do precisely what happened Friday and will likely happen again today: crash the US stock market, so that the billionaires can buy back their companies' shares on the cheap. Trump gets to look like he accomplished something as he'll claim what we already know: that there's "no longer" such a big problem, or that Canada did his bidding. Same thing may or may not apply with Mexico.
So being that Canada provides less than 1% of all fentanyl, what is this REALLY ABOUT?? Being that he's a loose cannon immediately attacking our allies upon election, betraying tax payers with his war on the government that will help our adverseries. I think what all this is about, it to keep us from fleeing when the world war and fighting starts. Good luck sneaking to Canada when he declares martial law and a draft.
And, I strongy suspect, that he'll makes sure a lot of that border control money makes it's way to himself and his billionaire buddies. Disagree? I'd be happy to wager on it.
I mean we are all here becaues we are ANTI WAR!? Right?