No tax on imported Canadian hair patches to adorn your hat though.
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I understand many will find this a silly question but bear with me:
Under what authority can Trump ban imports from Canada?
I don't think he has any statutory ability to just ban shit from Canada. I'm sure this will go through the courts and eventually be ruled illegal, like the tariffs were. It's crazy that "President declares blatantly illegal thing but it's defacto legal for 90 days" has become the norm.
“Okay fine we aren’t banning it but it’s being terrified at eleventy katllion percent.”
Actually, that's even better. The original tariffs were done under a "national security" proviso. This would mean that Canadian beer is a threat to national security.
You really couldn't ask for better marketing.
This orange turd should prove how powerful he is and ban Canadian potash, energy products, rare earth, aluminum, nickel, or wood.
And oil don't forget oil
A trade war with Canada has got to be one of the dumbest things anyone has ever done in this nation.
That's tiny-d donnie for ya: always aiming to get even dumber.
How does he make this even dumber?
While he's carrying out a trade war with Canada, he's bragging about that ridiculous ballroom, erecting an arch, gluing tacky gold shit to the White House walls, painting the reflecting pool blue, declaring victory in Iran even as oil is hitting $100 a barrel, having his personal lawyer as AG cover up for a pedophile ring, having his Justice Department investigate shit from 2016 that made him bigly mad because of his relationship to Russia, openly and brazenly enriching himself and his family, etc., etc.,
If you had submitted that as a movie script a good decade ago, they'd laugh you out of the office, labelling the script the dumbest thing ever. Yet, here we are, and it gets submitted as a documentary
Well, in the run-up to his first election a decade ago, you had a lot of the Tone Police and the Murc's Law Media gaslighting people and labeling anyone trying to warn America about donnie as "hysterical".
Same set of idiots did more or less the same thing in the run-up to 2024, claiming that his first term "wasn't that bad", I guess because he was not literally Hitler.
Don’t forget falling in love with a clinically insane 35 year old fame seeker that made herself look like his daughter so he’d be attracted to her, who he recently gave 45k in gifts that we know of, because he’s a narcissist incestual dirty old pedo who isn’t capable of understanding real love or friendships, and is an easy mark for other grifters. That’s so embarrassing, especially for a president and world leader.
Almost as stupid as getting into a land war in Asia.
Classic blunder...
The list of dumbest things this administration has done just gets longer and longer. There’s no bottom to “dumbest” for them.
Ah, what's the difference, we're all gonna be killed by robots in a few years
You’re gonna wish you got out so easy.
Next up: Canadian bacon becomes American bacon!
"freedom bacon"
Never forget "freedom fries" was a thing before the Shitter in Chief became reality
Only they call it Canadian bacon anyway. It's just ham steak...
If someone had punched him in the mouth in 1970 we'd have never heard of this loser.
Hmm, ok. So, what about those Epstein files?
Three TACO Tuesdays between now and then