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| Mexico's president warns U.S. that their partnership will end if Trump pushes his policies too far. |
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Warns Trump She Ain't The One!
I have a feeling that Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Sheinbaum would have preferred a Joe Biden or Kamala Harris presidency.
But alas, the U.S. voters picked a moron.
I said do not underestimate Donald J. Trump. His followers and new allies carried him into a new term. Now Trump, J.D. Vance, Elon Musk, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Stephen Miller, Tulsi Gabbard, Marco Rubio, Linda McMahon, Elise Stefanik and Mike Huckabee will further America's decline.
Biden and Harris already drove it down because of fucking Israel. Now a Trump presidency almost ensures the Palestinians will have no chance at freedom.
It will take a South African style of "We are the world" to encourage a boycott and push for sanctions on the evil apartheid ethnostate. Israel cannot exist as it is today.
Israel gotta go.
No to white nationalist religious ethnostates being funded by American taxpayers and American military. Let Israel fight its own conflicts and keep our nose out it.
President Joe Biden, President-elect Donald J. Trump and Congress will not listen. They will call you antisemitic, a terrorist sympathizer, get you fired from your job, try to arrest you and/or censor you.
Mexico, Canada, Barbados, France, Turkey, Great Britain, Spain, Ireland, Iran, Brazil, Saudi Arabia and Lebanon will arrest Israeli regime prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former defense minister Yoav Gallant and president Issac Herzog.
Trump being the puppet of Israeli and Russian interests will retaliate by doing tariffs and accusing our North American trade partners of being the reasons for immigrant surges, fentanyl and crime.
Trump is trying to impose tariffs on China, Mexico and Canada.
These countries warn him that they ain't tolerating it and will throw their own at him and pull out of trade deals.
They also remind him about his first term failures.
Y'all voted for this.
Sheinbaum hits back at Trump and told him directly if he imposes tariffs or make claims that Mexico will pay for a border wall, the country will no longer assist in any issues involving the United States.
That includes the border, weather service sharing, trade deals and the use of the Mexican military when it comes to war.
Trump threatened 25% import duties on Mexican goods if the country doesn’t stop the flow of drugs and migrants across the border.
Sheinbaum said she was willing to engage in talks on the issues, but said drugs were a U.S. problem.
“One tariff would be followed by another in response, and so on until we put at risk common businesses,” Sheinbaum said, referring to U.S. automakers that have plants on both sides of the border.
She said Tuesday that Mexico had done a lot to stem the flow of migrants, noting “caravans of migrants no longer reach the border.” However, Mexico’s efforts to fight drugs like the deadly synthetic opioid fentanyl — which is manufactured by Mexican cartels using chemicals imported from China — have weakened in the last year.
Sheinbaum said Mexico suffered from an influx of weapons smuggled in from the United States, and said the flow of drugs “is a problem of public health and consumption in your country’s society.”
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Sheinbaum also criticized U.S. spending on weapons, saying the money should instead be spent regionally to address the problem of migration. “If a percentage of what the United States spends on war were dedicated to peace and development, that would address the underlying causes of migration,” she said.
Sheinbaum’s bristly response suggests that Trump faces a much different Mexican president than he did in his first term.
Back in late 2018, former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador was a charismatic, old-school politician who developed a chummy relationship with Trump. The two were eventually able to strike a bargain in which Mexico helped keep migrants away from the border — and received other countries’ deported migrants — and Trump backed down on the threats.
But Sheinbaum, who took office Oct. 1, is a stern leftist ideologue trained in radical student protest movements, and appears less willing to pacify or mollify Trump.
“We negotiate as equals, there is no subordination here, because we are a great nation,” Sheinbaum said, while adding, “I think we are going to reach an agreement.”
But Gabriela Siller, director of economic analysis of the financial group Banco Base, fears the personality clash could escalate things into brinkmanship; Trump clearly hates to lose.
“Trump may have just tossed the threat out there, as he does,” Siller said. “But Mexico’s response, that we’re going to respond to you with tariffs, that will make Trump really impose them.”
It’s not clear how serious Trump’s threat is. The U.S.-Mexico-Canada free trade agreement forbids just imposing tariffs on other member countries. And it’s not clear whether the economy could even tolerate sudden levies on imports: Auto plants on both sides of the border rely on each other for parts and components, and some production lines could screech to a halt.
“It is unacceptable and would cause inflation and job losses in Mexico and the United States,” Sheinbaum said, while offering to talk about the issues. “If tariffs go up, who will it hurt? General Motors,” she said.
“Dialogue is the best path to achieve understanding, peace and prosperity for our two countries,” Sheinbaum said. “I hope our teams can meet soon.”
Late Monday, Trump said he would impose a 25% tax on all products entering the country from Canada and Mexico, and an additional 10% tariff on goods from China, as one of his first executive orders.
The tariffs, if implemented, could dramatically raise prices for American consumers on everything from gas to automobiles to agricultural products. The U.S. is the largest importer of goods in the world, with Mexico, China and Canada its top three suppliers, according to the most recent U.S. Census data.
“On January 20th, as one of my many first Executive Orders, I will sign all necessary documents to charge Mexico and Canada a 25% Tariff on ALL products coming into the United States, and its ridiculous Open Borders,” he wrote.
He said the new tariffs would remain in place “until such time as Drugs, in particular Fentanyl, and all Illegal Aliens stop this Invasion of our Country!”
“Both Mexico and Canada have the absolute right and power to easily solve this long simmering problem. We hereby demand that they use this power,” he went on, “and until such time that they do, it is time for them to pay a very big price!”
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