OMG! World Leaders Destroy Trump in Trade War
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What retaliatory measures are world leaders taking against Trump's tariffs?
Donald Trump just got a world class beat down from the world. About $60 billion in retaliatory tariffs being applied to the United States when you add up the retaliatory tariffs from Canada and Europe. This follows Donald Trump following through on his 25% across the board aluminum and steel tariffs in Canada and in Europe. Canada and Europe swiftly responded. It was so odd yesterday, Donald Trump hosted the prime minister of Ireland and in that bizarre oval office, whatever you want to call it, Donald Trump was bragging that the premier of Ontario removed certain tariffs, which the premier of Ontario added to the existing tariffs that were already gonna be part of the retaliatory tariffs cuz Trump has no clue what he's talking about.
Just watch what Donald Trump said though in the Oval Office, play this clip.
It's not gonna be a tough battle, in my opinion, not gonna be tough. Just like when Ontario charged us, everybody's, they just said, this will be one in one hour. And they announced what we were gonna do. And they withdrew their little threat.
And perhaps Donald Trump should have been paying more attention because right around that time, Canada announced that it was applying its retaliatory steel and aluminum tariffs. I'll just show you. Here's the finance minister of Canada, Dominic LeBlanc. Here's what he had to say yesterday. Let's play the clip.
While our iconic steel and aluminum industries are being unfairly targeted. Today, I am announcing that the Government of Canada, following a dollar-for-dollar approach, will be imposing as of 12.01 a.m. tomorrow, March 13, 2025,
One of the things also that I think is so fundamental here as well is, as I've said, it's not simply that Donald Trump has declared a trade war on Canada. In my view, Trump has declared actual war on Canada. When you talk about annexing Canada, conquering, taking over the land. I mean, to me, those are fight words. Those are war words. And one of the things that Donald Trump refused to do as well is that when a new interim prime minister, Carney, Mark Carney, was selected by the liberal party, Canada is going to go into their elections, of course, shortly. And I think the liberal party is going to be able to form a government coming out of those elections, but people are going to have to go out and vote.
But Trump didn't even reach out to the new interim prime minister, Mark Carney, and congratulate him or say anything. And so Caroline Leavitt, the chief propagandist at the White House, she was asked, why didn't he do that? And then she just went on to attack Canada. I want you to watch this, play this clip.
Close ally very quickly when there's new leadership. Well, the president is, again, responding to the fact that Canada has been ripping off the United States of America and hardworking Americans for decades.
Now, I like Mark Carney, the new prime minister of Canada's response about will he meet? with Donald Trump and when? What's his plans? First and foremost, he gave this incredible speech at a factory in Canada standing with the aluminum and steel workers who are being hit the hardest by these tariffs. At these factories, one of the things that Mark Carney announced is that unlike Trump, who wants to use tariffs to enrich himself and other billionaires, and make way for billionaire tax cuts or for Trump to create a sovereign wealth fund like MBS in Saudi Arabia so Trump could buy more Trump hotels or whatever. Canadian Prime Minister Carney says, here's what we're going to do with the money that we get. We're going to give it right back to the workers, and we're going to make sure that we do everything that we can to help the workers. One of the things that Carney also said is, look, I'm open to meet with Donald Trump in Washington, but he's going to have to respect the sovereignty of Canada first.
Carney said, I'm drawing a clear line. I'm not going to go and sit in the Oval Office if Trump disrespects Canada. I'm just not going to meet with him. If he shows respect for our sovereignty, then I will be open to it. I think this is the right approach to it. Here, play this clip.
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