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Nervous Nellies Fret as American Abusers Cave to Trump’s Tariff Threats

[E]conomists warn that [Trump’s tariffs will] negatively impact American businesses and consumers, many of whom are still reeling from the sharp rise in inflation in recent years.  … The Chamber of Commerce … [holds] that tariffs won’t solve the issues at the borders [but] threaten to “upend supply chains” and raise prices for American[s]. … “Tariffs [mean] economic war; and in war, everybody loses.”

CNN, 2/2/25

Americans could soon be paying more for everything from automobiles to avocados after the Trump administration levied stiff new tariffs on the nation’s three largest trading partners.  … “If there is a significant increase in tariffs … those costs will likely be passed onto U.S. consumers and businesses,” …

CBS News, 2/3/25

Gregory Daco, chief economist at the tax and consulting firm EY, calculates that the tariffs would increase inflation, running at a 2.9% annual rate in December, by 0.4 percentage points this year …The Penny Ice Creamery in Santa Cruz, California, has had to hike prices of its ice cream — including popular flavors “strawberry pink peppercorn’’ and “chocolate caramel sea salt’’ — repeatedly in recent years as an inflationary surge increased the cost of its supplies.

ABC News, 2/2/25

Here’s what could get more expensive under Trump’s tariffs. … [From Mexico,] fruits, vegetables, beer, liquor and electronics. From Canada: potatoes, grains, lumber and steel. …  That would compound already high grocery prices, [already] up 28% over the last five years, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics.

NBC News, 2/2/25

Trump’s tariffs and trade war … could impose significant costs on the broader economy: disrupting supply chains, raising costs for businesses, eliminating hundreds of thousands of jobs, ultimately driving up consumer prices. … Certain sectors of the U.S. economy will be hit particularly hard, including automotive, energy, and food sectors.  Gas prices could surge as much as 50 cents per gallon in the Midwest … Grocery costs could rise, too.

PBS, 2/2/25

The Dumbest Trade War in History.  Trump will impose 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico for no good reason.

WSJ, 1/31/25

Trump’s Tariffs Usher in New Trade Wars. The Ultimate Goal Remains Unclear.  The president’s trade assault, which makes no distinction between ally and adversary, is an assertion of U.S. dominance with significant risks … The postwar bipartisan consensus that the U.S. prospers by fostering cooperation and integration with allies and neighbours is gone. In its place looms the prospect of continuous trade war driven not by traditional alliances and ideology, but the priorities of the day. The winner is the one who can inflict, and withstand, the most economic pain.  

WSJ, 2/3/25

Jon Stewart jokes [that] Trump’s tariff logic doesn’t add up.  [Trump just] walk[s] up to the one guy that doesn’t seem to be a problem at all [Trudeau in Canada] and just nyaaaa [stab him].  Take that best friend! 

CNN, 2/4/25

85% of terror watch list people nabbed at the Canadian-US border: CBP  Mike Tobin reports that migrants see the northern U.S. border as a ‘weak point.’

Fox News, 12/14/24

UPDATE

Mexico Caves, Deploys 10,000 Troops To Border In Exchange For Trump Pausing Tariffs. … “We had a good conversation with President Trump with great respect for our relationship and sovereignty; we reached a series of agreements,” [President] Sheinbaum stated … “1. Mexico will immediately reinforce [our] northern border with 10,000 members of the National Guard to prevent drug trafficking from Mexico to the US, particularly fentanyl.” … [Trump says] “These soldiers will [also] be designated to stop the flow of fentanyl and illegal migrants [into the US].

Conservative Daily News, 2/3/25

Colombia caves on deportations after Trump’s tariff threats

The Straits Times, 1/27/25

Trudeau Caves to Trump Tariffs, Pledges to Secure Border.  “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 [US] partners, and increased resources to stop the flow of fentanyl,” Trudeau said. “Nearly 10,000 frontline personnel will be protecting the border.”

MSM.com, 2/4/25

President Trump said that Venezuela has agreed to accept the country’s migrants back … including gang members of the Tren de Aragua gang … living in the U.S. back and lauded the return of six American hostages who were held [there].  …  “Venezuela has further agreed to supply the transportation back.” 

New York Post, 2/1/25

Panama offers concessions to US after Marco Rubio meets president.  [A government official also said his country would not renew its participation in China’s Belt and Road Initiative, making [it] the first Latin American country to do so. 

Business Times, 2/3/25

China, which has long called tariffs counterproductive, offered relatively muted criticism of the tariffs and signalled an openness to talks.  [China’s government] appeared poised to seek a deal with Trump that could delay or stop tariffs, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Reuters, 2/4/25

China to propose restoring 2020 ‘Phase 1’ trade deal with US [that it had signed during the first Trump term].

WSJ, 2/3/25

Naturally, when Trump proposed using tariffs 1.) to stop the flow of Fentanyl into the US that kills @100,000 Americans per year in 2023-24, 2.) to stop the flow of around ten million illegal aliens into the US resulting in additional crimes and the rape and murder of many women and little girls, 3.) to secure better trade deals with trading partners, 4.) to get some hostages back from the Socialist paradise of Venezuela and 5.) to increase national security by preventing China from being able to dominate America in coming decades, the Democrat Party Propaganda Collective or DPPC (aka the “Mainstream” or “Legacy” media) immediately worked themselves into a state of hysteria that Trump might start a destructive “trade war”. This even includes the Wall Street Journal which, despite generally trying to promote the impression that it is a conservative paper, helps to facilitate millions of illegal aliens into the country so that its clientele can make 3 million a year in their businesses by employing cheap illegal labour instead of a mere 2 million a year.  

How could Trump even consider such an extremist policy of defending the American people!  Americans might even have to face the unimaginable horror of increased prices on their “strawberry pink peppercorn’’ and “chocolate caramel sea salt’’ ice cream!    Say it ain’t so!  Fortunately, after a lot of threats and bluster by the offending countries and their weakling DPPC allies, it appears that there is not going to be any destructive trade war.  All except China began caving faster than your date on Prom night.  And China appears to want talks to resolve the issue – which is precisely what they did in response to Trump’s 2020 tariff threats when, after lots of bluster, they signed an historic Trade Deal with Trump.  Indications from China, not as irrational as the DPPC, are now that they want to renew it.  

It would appear that the DPPC, after getting accustomed over the last 4 years to covering for an alleged “President” who spends most of his time napping on his private Delaware beach or cutting paper dolls is, as distasteful to them as this may be, going to have to get used to having a resolute pro-American strong man president again. 

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Richard McDonough

Richard Michael McDonough, American philosophy educator. Achievements include production of original interpretation of Wittgenstein’s logical-metaphysical system, original application Kantian Copernican Revolution to philosophy of language; significant interdisciplinary work logic, linguistics, psychology & philosophy. Member Australasian Debating Federation (honorary life, adjudicator since 1991), Phi Kappa Phi.

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