Looks like 'Trump was wrong' is the only answer he will accept.😂
Why put tariffs on Canada?
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Multiple posters answered. You just won’t listen because it doesn’t fit your narrative. Trump could cure cancer and you’d complain he hasn’t cured AIDS yet.
Several people replied. But I haven't seen a good answer. Understand the difference?
I give credit where it deserved (Mexico).......but hitting Canada the same way doesn't make much sense. I suspect that will do more harm than good in the long run.
He blocks people who defeat him in debates. He may not see ANY response
IF you knew what you were talking about...this would be different. But you do not. "The same way" WORKS. It accomplishes EXACTLY what Trump wants accomplished. He does not care if YOU do not understand. Canada DID. You are looking WAY too literally at tariffs. The main problem with Canada (despite what the news outlets report) Huge majority of people entering the Country on the terror watch list come through Canada. And if ONE person brings fentanyl in...it is one too many. America is in a better place with the deal Trump made with Canada...just PAY ATTENTION to world events. KEEP UP!!!
someone cut and paste this so he can get educated.
Because a good answer for you is one that fits your opinion. Kind of my point. Understand the difference?
Good luck in getting someone to agree with you. It’s alarming that it appears to me and many others that you’d rather have bad things happen to America so you can be “right” rather than the progress that is clearly being made.
Getting them to bend the knee on the world stage is good enough reason for me. 
Can you imagine getting to live through the Second American Revolution...and you cheer on the LOSING team? LOL
This would be like being a colonist in 1776 and calling George Washington and Ben Franklin traitors, and snitching to the redcoats about where colonists were hiding. You'd get to live long enough to learn YOU were the traitor. Yikes.
Let me ask you something Trey. If you ask a question, and people respond with answers you believe are wrong (and exactly what you knew they would say), how do you respond? Of course I am looking for an answer I can agree with, kinda like every question that's ever been asked in history. Nobody AGREES with something they believe to be incorrect.
Trust me, lots of people agree with me. You need to get off this board and see there is a big wide world out there. Your not getting a fair reading on any subject if your going by this board. Anything on this board needs to be taken with a grain of salt.
And your last sentence is just baloney, IMO. Note I only made an issue here with Canada because, IMO, there is a huge difference in Canada and Mexico and they shouldn't be dealt with the same. Asking a question about why we are doing this to Canada is a very reasonable question given the massive difference in illegal entry issues and drug issues between our norther and southern boarder AND the long history's of the two countries.
Illegal shift lives up to his screen name of complaining about a play that hasn't even happened yet. He is so distasteful of Trump that he has spent loads of time arguing about something that so far hasn't even happened. As far as I can see, Trump has leveled tariff rates of zero, zero and zero on Mexico, Canada and China so far. Please somebody, get that man to a TDS specialist.
Let me help educate the slow here. Trump does not want to take over Greenland. He does not want to take over Canada, or the panama Canal. Or Gaza. PLEASE at least try to understand “The Art of the deal”. He is a MASTER in negotiations. He is 25 times better than just about anyone who goes against him. He can tell you before he makes the first salvo how things will end. I have trained negotiating for 3 decades. I have never seen anyone like Trump. Hell, he wrote a best selling book about it. I suggest some of you read it, especially the ones that start crying every time he makes the first chess move (while his opponent is playing checkers). He does EXACTLY the same thing every time he wants something to change.
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Most people ask questions to learn.
You just proved the mentality of the average liberal: Tell me the story I want to hear.
You want to hear that Trump was wrong in doing this.
He does. China controls Canada and the Panama Canal . They are burrowing into greenland. Trump wants all three to avoid them being used strategically against the US.
The US will control all three by the end of this term. We will actually have them by Summer at this rate.
I truly believe that TDS sufferers would rather live under Chinese rule, with Trump in a prison as well, than live in freedom and prosperity under Trump.
I’m a professional contract negotiator and this is nothing more than leveraging. As Capt has stated, DJT understands our strengths in some of those negotiations and citing the unfair one sided cost approach in many of them. He states he will find another way to be compensated for those and creates an unfounded emotional uproar by the country impacted with what he’s asking for. Once he gets some compromise, the threat goes away.
Rule #1, the person who initiates to change something in an agreement first has the leverage to do so, rather than the one that reacts and threatens counter measures on the threat. Both sides understand this and it gets worked out without enforcing those things on either side or done in modified versions to satisfy the issue. No side wants to completely exit the relationship but everyone else wants to play Monday morning qb and state “what ifs”.
Trust me, public sentiment is key here and one of the things I appreciate about DJT as a businessperson is that he puts out why he’s doing something and explaining why it’s unfair (to help it make sense to people and understand his decisions better) yet he still goes under constant attack for them even when fiscal responsibility isn’t being shared. It baffles me because his transparency should warrant otherwise.
Rule #1, the person who initiates to change something in an agreement first has the leverage to do so, rather than the one that reacts and threatens counter measures on the threat. Both sides understand this and it gets worked out without enforcing those things on either side or done in modified versions to satisfy the issue. No side wants to completely exit the relationship but everyone else wants to play Monday morning qb and state “what ifs”.
Trust me, public sentiment is key here and one of the things I appreciate about DJT as a businessperson is that he puts out why he’s doing something and explaining why it’s unfair (to help it make sense to people and understand his decisions better) yet he still goes under constant attack for them even when fiscal responsibility isn’t being shared. It baffles me because his transparency should warrant otherwise.
He's 100% acting in America's best interests. The media should be hailing him as the hero that he is. Instead, they do everything they can to bury him.
I wonder why?
There it is. The media is bought and paid for by the government. Now you see why Trump is targeting USAID. Now you see why dems and the media are losing their minds over it.
Swamp....I understand the negotiating tactics here and don't disagree with that part of it. But I have a few questions:
1) With your negotiating experience......what does an immediate capitulation by one party usually tell you?
2) What did we achieve here? What did Canada and Mexico give us that we really didn't already have?
3) Do relationships matter, or is everything transactional?
You mean Trump threatening both Mexico and Canada with tariffs if they didn't secure the border, and both countries immediately capitulated?
It means Trump won. Now you're getting it.
