President Trump, during a press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday, indicated that he will reinstate his 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico to protect Americans from the drugs and murderers crossing the southern and northern borders.
President Trump’s press conference with Marcon came after a meeting with the French President on Russia-Ukraine peace discussions.
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When asked by a reporter if the previously suspended tariffs on Mexico and Canada are going back into effect on March 1, President Trump said, “The tariffs are going forward on time, on schedule.”
As The Gateway Pundit reported, President Trump imposed his long-awaited 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada on February 1, a move that was first met with pushback from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Trudeau responded by announcing he would impose his own tariffs on the United States, which many in Canada thought would be a big mistake.
Trump slapped the tariffs on the three countries under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
- 25% tariffs on all Mexico imports
- 25% tariffs on nearly all Canadian imports — 10% on Canadian energy resources
- 10% tariffs on all China imports
After the economic and political fallout, Trudeau caved to Trump’s demands and agreed to implement a $1.3 billion border plan to reinforce border security. He promised “new choppers, technology and personnel, enhanced coordination with our American partners, and increased resources to stop the flow of fentanyl.” Trump, in turn, agreed to suspend the tariffs temporarily for one month.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum also agreed to send 10,000 Mexican Soldiers to the border in exchange for a temporary pause on tariffs less than 48 hours after President Trump imposed tariffs on the country.
However, it does not look like they’ve done enough.
“We’ve been mistreated very badly by many countries, not just Canada and Mexico. We’ve been taken advantage of,” Trump said as he announced that the tariffs are “moving along very rapidly.”
WATCH:
Reporter: There’s a key deadline for your Canada and Mexico tariffs. Do you expect those will go back on, or do you believe those countries have done enough on the border to stop those from taking effect?
Trump: We’re on time with the tariffs, and it seems like that’s moving along very rapidly. We’ve been mistreated very badly by many countries, not just Canada and Mexico. We’ve been taken advantage of. We were led by, in some cases, fools because anybody that would sign documents like they signed where they were able to take advantage of the American people like has happened over the last long period of time, except for a little four-year period that took place four years ago.
But anybody that would agree to allow this to happen to our country should be ashamed of themselves. The tariffs are going forward on time, on schedule. This is an abuse that took place for many, many years. And I’m not even blaming the other countries that did this. I blame our leadership for allowing it to happen. I mean, you know, who can blame them if they made these great deals with the United States, took advantage of the United States, on manufacturing, on just about everything? Every aspect that you could imagine, they took advantage of.
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