The President's Daily Brief
March 7th, 2025: Trump Hits Pause On Trade War With Mexico And Canada & South Korea Accidentally Bombs Their Own Civilians
07 Mar 2025
In this episode of The President's Daily Brief: We’ll kick things off with a major update on the Trump administration’s trade war, as the president pauses tariffs on a host of goods from Mexico and Canada for a period of one month, praising Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum’s cooperation with the U.S. on the southern border. Later in the show, EU leaders gathered for emergency talks in Brussel on Thursday in the hopes of drastically boosting defense spending following President Trump’s reversal of U.S. policies on Ukraine. Plus, at least 15 people were injured in South Korea on Thursday after their military accidentally dropped eight bombs on a civilian area during a joint training exercise near the North Korean border. In our 'Back of the Brief' segment, anti-Israel protests took a darkly radical turn this week at Columbia University, as an antisemitic mob calling for “Death to America” hung an effigy of a school administrator and handed out flyers authored by the “Hamas Media Office” glorifying the barbaric 7 October attacks. To listen to the show ad-free, become a premium member of The President’s Daily Brief by visiting PDBPremium.com. Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of The President's Daily Brief. YouTube: youtube.com/@presidentsdailybrief Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Full Episode
It's Friday, 7 March. Welcome to the President's Daily Brief. I'm Mike Baker, your eyes and ears on the world stage. Let's get briefed. We'll kick things off with a major update on the Trump administration's trade war as the president pauses tariffs on a host of goods from Mexico and Canada for a period of one month, praising Mexican President Claudia Scheinbaum's cooperation with the U.S.
on the southern border. Later in the show, European Union leaders gathered for emergency talks in Brussels on Thursday in the hopes of drastically boosting defense spending following President Trump's reversal of U.S. policies on Ukraine.
Plus, at least 15 people were injured in South Korea on Thursday after their military accidentally dropped eight bombs, oops, on a civilian area during a joint training exercise near the North Korean border.
And in today's back of the brief, anti-Israel protests took a radical turn this week at Columbia University as an anti-Semitic mob calling for, quote, death to America, hung an effigy of a school administrator and handed out flyers authored by the Hamas media office glorifying the brutal 7 October attacks.
Meanwhile, the gormless university administrators, well, they continue to negotiate with the mob. But first, today's PDB Spotlight. In another whiplash-inducing reversal, the Trump administration is walking back their plans to impose crippling trade tariffs on America's northern and southern neighbors over the ongoing fentanyl crisis.
On Thursday, President Trump signed executive actions delaying his 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada for all products covered by the current North American Free Trade Treaty, known as the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement. despite enacting the new taxes just days ago.
For now, the exemption will only last through April 2nd, the same day that Trump plans to impose reciprocal tariffs on all major U.S. trading partners, including longtime allies. And that's according to a report from Reuters.
The announcement came one day after Trump said he would delay tariffs on all automakers for one month in order to give that sector time to adjust to supply chains and move more production to the U.S., though realistically, well, such an undertaking would obviously take much longer.
Automakers are expected to be hit particularly hard by the tariffs as car parts often cross US borders six to eight times during assembly, meaning that they could be taxed multiple times. Now, we should stress that the White House's latest move does not constitute a total reprieve from the tariffs.
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