Trump's threats are back in full force to wreck the economy

In what feels like a horrible case of deja vu, President Donald Trump said he will reimplement the destructive and nonsensical tariffs on some of the United States' biggest trading partners beginning on Aug. 1, once again setting the country up for economic pain.

Canada became Trump's latest tariff victim on Thursday night, after Trump posted the idiotic letter to Truth Social that he sent to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney informing him that the U.S. is placing a massive 35% tariff on Canadian imports.

The new tariff rate is higher than the initial 25% tariff Trump had placed on Canada, but later pulled a TACO, which stands for Trump Always Chickens Out, and exempted a number of those imports after economists warned the tariffs would cause economic disaster.

The poorly written, bizarrely capitalized, and lie-filled letter Trump sent to Carney looks similar to the other stupid letters Trump sent to a number of other countries this week informing them that on Aug. 1, he will put tariffs on goods they export to the United States.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/7/11/2332814/-Trump-s-threats-are-back-in-full-force-to-wreck-the-economy