Donald Trump’s eleventh-hour trade war with Canada and Mexico
momentarily scrambled the U.S. economy in exchange for, apparently,
nothing that America’s two neighbors weren’t already likely to offer.
Trump temporarily backed down Monday from imposing a 25 percent tariff
hike on goods from Mexico after speaking with the nation’s leader,
President Claudia Sheinbaum. In exchange for the dropped tariffs,
Sheinbaum agreed to send 10,000 members of the country’s National Guard
to deter drug trafficking between the two nations. But journalists were
quick to point out that previous administrations had been able to get
Mexico to send more troops and money without the volatile economic
threat of tariffs.
“It seems like the trick to negotiating with Trump is to realize he
doesn’t have any idea what the current facts are,” posted Washington
Post columnist Catherine Rampell on BlueSky. “‘Oh you want 10,000 troops?’ says world leader who already deployed 15K. ‘Great 10k it is.’”
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-- Nikki Haley
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