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Its called PAY TO PLAY. YOU PAY DIRECTLY TO trump YOU GET TO PLAY. JUST LIKE PARDONS

The US unemployment rate is currently just under 4.5%, or about 7 million people theoretically available to fill job openings. \nIt’s highly likely that most of these folks are unemployable.\nSo, who’s going to work on the hundreds of thousands of factories that will need to be built in the US when trump “brings all those jobs back to America”?\nThen, on top of that, who’s going to replace the 10+ millions of undocumented workers that will be deported?\nGood luck with that, and enjoy the new, improved, and higher prices on everything you buy. \nLike they say, you get what you vote for.

Isolationism in the modern world doesn’t work, it’s an obsolete philosophy. The global world is far too interconnected, this will prove to be absolutely catastrophic not only economically but also politically. \n\nI’m independent, This in particular is NOT about politics, it doesn’t take a Democrat to conclude these little economic wars with the country we most depend on economically will prove catastrophic. Disagreeing with Trump on this doesn’t mean disagreeing with his presidency, let’s all understand the nuance in politics so we stop blindly agreeing with every choice politicians make just because we like them. \n\nBut ahh yes, Isolating the only two countries we border, the same countries that Russia, and China in particular are actively striving to increase their influence in, what could possibly go wrong Mr.Trump ?

People need to understand the tariff talk is a cudgel looking for more support on the border: illegal immigration, drugs. Nobody wants tariffs, including trump. Everyones talking like its all a foregone conclusion. CONTEXT......

She trying to play stupid like she dont understand whst trump is trying to do

Im a liberal recovering addict, and Mexico can't work with idiots like Trump because their too busy making deals and covering up the cartel doen the street

When has the Mexican government ever cared about it's people!? Half the government there is run by the cartel so please she can save her little comments and opinions. If she cared so much about anything involving Mexico she would be talking to trump about how they can work together to get rid of the cartel and move forward with putting them on the terrorist list, no she's worried about the wrong things. She doesn't CARE, she worried about money just like every other government official in Mexico.... who are being bribed by the cartels ....gurl bye she's a FONY!!!

Many a people has let themselves be mislead by some demagogue like Jesus, Allah , or Russia Lenin Stalin, China Mao, Cambodia PolPot, Italy Mussolini, Germany Hitler !!\nAnd now Trump USA

Trump doesn't understand how and why US foreign policy (incl trade policy) works - which is part of why the GOP neocons and the deep state hates him like the plague (he can stuff up all their schemes with his ignorance)\nTrump is not cognizant of the reality (because it doesn't get talked about or said out loud in the mainstream media) that US is an Imperial power engaged in using complex diplomacy (including *sensitive* relationships cultivated over a long time) and threat of military force to suppress activities all over the planet in order to maintain a status quo where the US Empire gets to sit alone at the zenith of global power and wealth. It's not by real merit, this is a position established and maintained through aggression, and lot's of criminality carried out and built up over centuries of exploitative activities, which is why the deep state and powerful elite classes are so desperate to maintain the empire (and stop history from happening) because if forced to play on a more level playing field it becomes clearer that the sort of capitalism and unchecked neoliberalism the US political establishment is engaged in (and the current outcomes) are completely unsustainable.\nLike if something changed and the US dollar stopped being relied on as the premiere reserve currency of choice then they wouldn't be able to keep printing and spending money on value-losing expenses and they'd realize how badly screwed not just the economy is but the entire culture of thinking would have an existential crisis

She is like so many Mexicans who see themselves as white. She will turn them in because she is a Trumper. Trust me, Trump doesn't give two shits about you, granny.

Trump isn’t very Intelligent and acts like a Mobster. He doesn’t have any Critical Thinking Skills as he runs like a Wild Bull on the Plaines. Believing he’ll get kick backs on one or all of these so called Tariffs. It’s no different than what he did his first administration with many donations (kickbacks) from World Leaders! All of which weren’t reported and only recently documented. What’s happening in this new coming Administration will look like the biggest HEIST IN AMERICAN HISTORY, with the replacement of every government employee with (YES) Employees. Trump’s in debt for 2 Billion after the Election; so he’ll have to get his money back through every course possible! Which will lead to every American being put in the Poor House during his time in Office. People will have to remember his comments demeaning every American as losers as he Raises Taxes and Product Inflation go through the roof, while the wealthiest live TaX Free again within his Second Administration! “Sometimes in Life, you can’t see the Forest for the Trees.” It’s harder to see the TRUTH, by the amount of the LIES!???

Think globally, we are not by our selves. Trump is about to find out how the world works. We can no longer act like we rule and no one else matter. Your costs on everything is about to go up and the amount in your pocket is about to go down. Stupid is not cheap. You voted for him, this is what you get !

I'm old. You know how I know that for sure? I remember Laugh-in and I keep hearing Sock-It-To-Me, Sock-It-To-Me, Sock-It-To-Me. Tariff's arent' going to strengthen our trade negotiations with China. Quite the opposite. They'll just cut a better import deal with other countries. And it's not COUNTRIES that are ripping us off - it's CORPORATIONS. Trump wants you to believe it is countries so he can give tax cuts to corporations and dumb people won't know how badly that is screwing us over. It's like 'Over here is the REAL evil', not over there! Trust me! I'm your protector!!'

Go figure… Trump likes a system that enables corruption. \nThe US is a world laughing stock.

We Canadians feel the same as Mexico's president does. Give a listen to our Province of Ontario's Premier blast Trump! Ford said it's like a friend stabbing you in the heart. Trump is only interested in dividing and causing turmoil.

Don’t forget, this lady is Jewish and knows a thing or two about economy. Trump can’t push her around like he has done with others, also, he does not understand that the majority of Mexicans back her up and are willing to make sacrifices to not let the USA push Mexico around. These trumps threats could backfire really bad and we will pay for it for sure, just wait, if inflation is bad and you have to pay 40k-50k for a base model car with these tariffs the middle class won’t be able to afford a 100k car anymore and we all will have to rent cars now. And forget about having savings and been able to own a home. This will mark the end of this country…mark my words.

Tarriff exclusions are a carrot and stick, which will bring businesses and entire industries to heel. Corruption is going to flood the zone, as Trump threatens disaster after disaster, and makes everyone bend kneees and open wallets to get out of it. Bezos' WaPo policy is a canary in the coal mine. DOGE will also be used in this fashion - in addition to being the world's biggest crypto scam: nothing will shoot crypto prices up like cutting tens of thousands of civil service jobs and replacing them with blockchain + AI, forcing mass adoption. If that sounds like conspiracy theory, this is Musk we are talking about - blockchain and AI are two of his favorite techs. The non-agency is named after a crypto that was nearly worthless - until Elon hyped it in 2020, manipulated the market, and is now worth 54 billion while having no inherent value. Much of that came as Trump endorsed crypto and Musk endorsed Trump. If you don't want your Federal funding cut, talk to one of Elon or Vivek's shell companies. If you want a tarriff exclusion. If you don't want your workers' families deported . . . the list goes on and on.

Hope that Trump voters will learn that when you act like mean girls you get treated like mean girls

Mexico’s President sounds presidential and is very likely smarter than Trump.

Blah blah blah.. CNN is still on the Anti-trump train. Soon your network will be a memory. Just like MSDNC.

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Canada and Mexico will not take it lying down! Enough of Trump and his crazy nonsense! I can't even imagine the extent of his ignorance on important economic matters and every other matter. This must be how insanity looks and sounds like. Americans will have to deal with him themselves. He is so full of it!

When Trump is put in office, he’s putting all of us at risk specially with China putting those tariffs Canada and Mexico have worked with us, but those other entities like North Korea, China, and other countries that don’t like us like Putin is.

Abbott and Trump are insane. If they don’t like what’s happening THEY should LEAVE!

It is wild how confident y'all are in these comment sections. Weren't we certain Trump was losing? Didn't Biden have vitality and was as sharp as ever? You people have no idea what the fk you are talking about. You just want to feel like you are living in a time where we are falling apart because you're a fat, comfortable, and bored.

Trumps supporters were too dumb to comprehend that high tariffs on imports would NOT help our economy. It’s like when trump said that Mexico would pay for the border wall. Mexico is playing chess while diaper Don is playing candyland

Much of the material that makes Up Tesla Vehicles is imported. So Very likely Musk Will be exempt from Trump tariffs.

TRUMP He is going to destroy the economy again like he did in 2020

Sounds like shes more diplomatic than Herr Trump???

I don’t like trump but I agree with him in this issue. Mexico is doing this in purpose, they want usa to be destroyed. 25% tariff isn’t enough, should be much more .

It looks like Tesla factory in Mexico possibly will get grant from Trump tariff. $$$$$ Musk paid to buy election of Trump is working…???

And the slowing and progress of Bidens economy is undermined just like that. MAGA time. I didnt know the depression and ww2 were the great times Americans voted to come back. He's bringing back the depression and ww3 like he said he wouldn't but he always wanted. Trumps goal is to bring America to her knees so Putin can have her way with her.

Yeah. Let's see how she likes 100% tariffs and a total ban on remittances. Mexico exports 30% of all exports to us, remittances are even more $. We export 1% of our exports to them.\n\nShe's a cartel pawn, and Mexico is a narcostate. This was stupid on their part, but unsurprising. Trump is going after the cartels. I am sure they are upset.

In 1930 American politicians decided to significantly increase tariffs \nand 25 other countries immediately responded by imposing significant tariffs\non American products and the trade war made the depression significantly worse.\n\nTrump's trade war won't likely lead to a depression but it will make things \nworse for almost everyone.\n\nExpect higher inflation, economic stagnation and also economic disruption \nas American companies can't suddenly and magically create new production \nto replace imports and can't do it as cheaply or they would already have been doing that\nand American exporters are going to face tariffs and sanctions imposed \non their products by other countries.\n\nThe extremely integrated car manufacturing industries in the United States, Canada and Mexico could be thrown into chaos.\nAn average car part crosses a border about 8 times during production.\nHow the heck do high tariffs deal with that standard car production situation?\n\nTrump would know all this if he thought about history or\nabout how the North American economy works or thought at all\nbut thinking is not something that appeals to Trump.\nInstead he just spouts out whatever random idea pops into his head \nand calls it policy.

Why don't you take a break from Trump and report to us on how Kamala Harris blew 1,5 Billion dollars on her campaign and landed 20 million dollars in dept, Staffers not paid starting gofundme pages??? You are Trump deranged and not real news. CNN will go bust soon, just like the Harris campaign.

The MAGA cult sheep who think that Trump adding a tax onto all imported products \nwill save them money are about to get a basic lesson in arithmetic and economics.\n\nAny 7 year old could have explained it to them but MAGA cult sheep don't like \nto listen to people explaining reality to them - \nit reminds them that they are disconnected from reality.

Trump will stage some TV situations for the cameras (like the Mc Donalds stuff), putting orange Make Up on his disgusting face and tell then a fantasy story to the public. Just to sound smart- He is so pathetic

Hahaha and the low number of border crossing is after the news trump got elected, it already started working it's magic. Just like the stock market, are the left also going to say biden made the stock rise

So if Mexico and Canada somehow stop the flow of fentanyl into the United States \nis Trump in return going to bring in adequate gun control laws so that the flow of smuggled American guns into Mexico and Canada is stopped?\nMexico and Canada should demand that in return.\nSmuggled American guns are responsible for a huge proportion of the shootings and murders in Mexico and in Canada.\n\nAnd I doubt very much that there is significantly more fentanlyl entering the United States from Canada than is entering Canada from the United States.\n\nAnd completely stopping the flow of fentanlyl sounds like magic.\nIt's impossible.\n\nAnd the whole reason for the movement of fentanlyl is the demand in the United States \nso even if Mexico and Canada could completely stop the flow of fentanlyl \nthere will still be fentanlyl in the United States - either imported or produced in the United States.\n\nI don't believe that Trump doesn't really cares about fentanlyl addicts.\nHe just wants an excuse to be a bully and to express his xenophobia.\nWho believes Trump really cares about fentanlyl addicts? Nobody.

'Cooperation and shared understanding' ? Doesn't sound like Trump. If he had a brain, sure.. but, he clearly doesn't.

Since MAGA and Trump think of problems in a very simple and child-like way. How about Americans just stop buying and using drugs. That would fix the problem.

Biden and Harris made a mess at the border and of course the hard-core liberal Mexican president wants to continue with the US border being open for illeggals. Trump is going to fix it like it or not. That is why the democrats lost badly not by a little but by a lot.??

So if we elected a woman in this country that is not White she is DEI. I like Mexico President she is no weakling like those jelly fish men that are around Trump and she is no butt kisser like those women around Trump. She is tough, nice looking and a women in power, that is going to drive the White women in the Trump party mad and make them full of raged. Their jealous might have stopped Harris for right now but they can not do anything to her. And to the men in Trumps world you will not see her trying to have oral sex with a mic.

People keep commenting on Trump‘s business experience. His business experience is a failure., his so-called successes win, have been what they were if he paid his bills paid his contractors. He’s a sleazy dishonest businessman just like he’s a sleazy, dishonest spouse just like he’s a sleazy, dishonest human being.! the only thing he’s good at and he’s really good at it is lying and creating a façade. Thanks to his self parody success on TV..,

The predator elect is a violent, sexual predator, blaming Latinos for it's violent foundation. The American landscape was built on the love for violence , guns, rape and grabbing pu..y. blaming every other country, but themselves. Just take a look at Trump's cabinet, how many are predators like himself.

It doesn’t seem like they’ve done a lot, and at the end of the day Mexico will end up losing More. Don’t get tough with Trump Claudia , you’ll come to regret it, like they’ve all have.

Trump will walk Claudia Sheinbaum like a dog. Pay up the added 25% honey

They talk like trump has brains.\nWant to see trump thinking and the limit of thinking?\nSearch for trump inject disinfectant.\nLook at the faces of people around him.

Mexico is not part of central America you dumb ignorant like Trump ignorants just flapping their mouths

Feels like Trump is already the acting President.