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Chapter 1: What is President Trump's leverage play with Canada?
Well, President Trump's leverage play continues to work. Canada has now caved. President Trump tried to push a 25% tariff against Canada. Canada immediately suggested that they were going to tariff American goods. That would have been much worse for them than for us in any trade war between the United States and Canada. Canada is going to lose.
Instead, Justin Trudeau has bent the knee to President Trump. He announced that Canada would appoint a fentanyl czar, list cartels as terrorists, and launch a joint strike force with the United States to combat organized crime, fentanyl trafficking, and money laundering. also announced that he would be deploying 10,000 personnel to the northern border as well.
So yesterday, as we talked about, Mexico caved and said that they would send 10,000 National Guard troops to America's southern border to police for fentanyl and to police for illegal immigration. And now Canada is doing the same. Instead, the sweeping tariffs that Trump was proposing have been put on hold for 30 days, presumably to reach a further agreement. Meanwhile, Beijing,
is attempting to figure out how to end around the tariffs that President Trump just put on them. He put a 10% tariff on Chinese goods. Beijing is hitting back by announcing a quote-unquote broad package of economic measures targeting the United States. The fresh duties were announced by China's Ministry of Finance.
They levy a 15% tax on certain types of coal and liquefied natural gas and a 10% tariff on crude oil, agricultural machinery, large displacement cars, and pickup trucks. Now, the problem with all of that is that China is not a massive consumer, for example, of American crude oil. We have plenty of markets all over the world that are perfectly willing to take our liquefied natural gas.
The Ministry of Commerce and China's Customs Administration also announced new export controls immediately effective on more than two dozen metal products and related technologies, including, for example, tungsten, a mineral typically used in industrial and defense applications, as well as tellurium, which can be used to make solar cells. This is according to CNN. Now, here is the thing.
Again, the United States, if we need those sorts of materials, can go elsewhere for those sorts of materials. There's not a lot of sting in these Chinese retaliatory measures. So the notion that this is going to radically alter the American economy in any way is unlikely. Prices will go up in certain areas of the American economy, but unlike tariffs on, say, Mexico or Canada,
where Mexico and Canada, Canada's an ally, and Mexico's at least titularly an ally. China is an actual geopolitical enemy of the United States. And so actually having a trade war with China, even if it does some economic damage to the United States, will do much worse economic damage to China. Will President Trump get some sort of concessions that allow him to walk back the tariffs?
We'll find out, but they're going to have to be some pretty significant concessions. And President Trump is moving faster than any president of my lifetime to do things. It is astonishing. Astonishing. I've never seen an administration move this quickly to do as many different things as the Trump administration is doing right now. Whether you're talking about walking back support for the UNRWA,
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Chapter 2: How did Canada respond to Trump's tariffs?
I love the concept of it. Sure, I love the concept, but they turned out to be radical left lunatics. And the concept of it is good, but it's all about the people.
So he is right about that. Again, the fact is that what the left has done with so many institutions, and USAID is just one of them, is taken the original purpose of the institution and then gutted it and worn the face around like Hannibal Lecter. That is exactly what they have done with the university systems in the United States.
They did it with the objective press in the United States, and they did it with USAID. USAID has been participating in so much waste and fraud over the course of time. As Daniel Greenfield of the David Horowitz Freedom Center points out, USAID has sent $9.3 billion to Islamic terror states collectively responsible for killing over 3,000 American soldiers.
There's an enormous number of terrible organizations supported by USAID. That was a point that was being made by Caroline Leavitt, the White House press secretary. Here she was yesterday talking about examples of waste and abuse inside USAID.
Here's the reason why Elon Musk and others have been taking a look. Because if you look at the waste and abuse that has run through USAID over the past several years, these are some of the insane priorities that that organization has been spending money on. $1.5 million to advance DEI in Serbia's workplaces, 70,000 for a production of a DEI musical in Ireland.
47,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia, 32,000 for a transgender comic book in Peru. I don't know about you, but as an American taxpayer, I don't want my dollars going towards this crap. And I know the American people don't either. And that's exactly what Elon Musk has been tasked by President Trump to do, to get the fraud, waste and abuse out of our federal government.
Of course, she is totally right about all of that. Now, I will say that there is a wing of the Republican Party that wishes to use the fact that these institutions have been so thoroughly corrupted to basically go totally isolationist, which again, as I said yesterday, is a mistake. Two things can be true at once. USAID has become a totally corrupted institution.
Also, that doesn't mean that the best strategy for the United States is to retreat from the world. entirely and simply grant that vacuum to, for example, the Chinese or the Russians or the Iranians. With that said, Elon Musk, who had basically been put in temporary charge of the USAID, he said yesterday that there basically is nothing left at USAID that's worth saving.
As we dug into USAID, it became apparent that what we have here is not an apple with a worm in it, but we have actually just a ball of worms. There is no apple. You've just got to basically get rid of the whole thing. It's beyond repair. So really, none of this could be done without the full support of the president. I went over it with him in detail, and he agreed that we should shut it down.
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