More higher prices possible: Trump just said he will double the tariffs on steel and aluminum imported from Canada to 50% starting Wednesday. The move comes in response to Ontario placing a 25% tariff on electricity coming into the U.S. - ThreadSky

kylegriffin1.bsky.social • 1 day ago

More higher prices possible: Trump just said he will double the tariffs on steel and aluminum imported from Canada to 50% starting Wednesday.

The move comes in response to Ontario placing a 25% tariff on electricity coming into the U.S.

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4animallife.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Canada should halt ALL exports until he stops this war-mongering BS:

'Trump said the border between Canada and the U.S. ... is "an artificial line of separation" that he wants to see disappear.'
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-canada-steel-alumimum-tariffs-1.7480309

Canada does NOT want to be the damn "51st state". We're a SOVEREIGN nation.

kstroopwafel.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Canada on one side. 🇨🇦
United States on the other. 🇺🇸
Let’s keep it that way.

gretagroots.bsky.social•1 day ago

He's mentally ill. Johnson needs to impeach. He won't. But he should

oz-s-better.bsky.social•21 hours ago

A trump is having a major hissy-fit.

rickwhist.bsky.social•1 day ago

And the markets respond to his continuing stupidity.

sharonpalmerhamm.bsky.social•1 day ago

He is an ass. It is sticking it to his own people. We will have no allies left. America cannot use up all of its products at home.

mreddie8976.bsky.social•1 day ago

WTF does he mean "declaring a National Emergency on Electricity"

Does he want to invade Canada and somehow seize their electricity?

Seriously, WTF is he talking about?

eustace.link•1 day ago

Did he forget that he already created an EO declaring a national emergency on energy less than two months ago?

datafourmiles.bsky.social•1 day ago

Right. Drill baby drill. 🤦‍♀️

marvelgeek1980.bsky.social•1 day ago

hellobubble.bsky.social•1 day ago

He’s trying to poke Canada into choking the power so he can declare a national emergency, institute Martial Law and ultimately cancel the midterm elections.

vinnieman.bsky.social•1 day ago

We can’t “choke” the electricity” without shutting down generating stations, so we’re more likely to simply increase the charges instead.

hellobubble.bsky.social•1 day ago

Thanks for the clarification. Still gonna try to do the same thing…

koosiss.bsky.social•1 day ago

The only way he supposed to be allowed to break the USMCA agreement is through a national emergency. Hopefully he's not intending to seize anything.

mreddie8976.bsky.social•1 day ago

Oh boy, breaking the USMCA is going to be the cherry on top!

larry-selman.bsky.social•1 day ago

It’s rat food for his rat cult. Sounds big and important but is actually empty calories. Will play well for the five seconds it gets on TV.

heiz16.bsky.social•1 day ago

So much winning

scout0914.bsky.social•23 hours ago

🤣 What a moron! He’s going to kill the automotive industry here in the US, and the markets will drop like a rock!

Keep it up Canada! Do not give him a centimeter!

mjsass.bsky.social•23 hours ago

I WAS going to buy a new car in May. New/used. Guess I’ll keep driving around my shitbox.

scout0914.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Yeah, a friend of mine had been putting off buying a car for years. Once Trump won the election, I told him to buy the car ASAP before the inauguration, otherwise, he could be waiting another 4 years to get car prices down. I saw this coming a mile away. Thankfully he bought one just before Jan.

mjsass.bsky.social•23 hours ago

I won’t have the money until May. I look like a broke bitch now driving my car. I wanna look like a less broke bitch.

meronym6.bsky.social•1 day ago

He's poking the goose. Every Canadian learned to not poke the goose.

canapea-cartof.bsky.social•1 day ago

What a nitwit. That's really great of him to hurt the American construction and infrastructure industry and therefore all Americans with higher prices AND delayed infrastructure restoration and more housing shortage.

libertine1971.bsky.social•1 day ago

Trump is delusional and will not stop even if everything goes wrong

robjenson.bsky.social•1 day ago

stephentherry.bsky.social•1 day ago

Fun fact: you need a lot of electricity to produce aluminum. The USA needs a lot of our aluminum. So it’s impossible for the USA to produce their own aluminum without some of our electricity. Trump essentially guaranteed the American economy will hard crash very soon.

ginalolajupiter.bsky.social•23 hours ago

He’s a TARIFF WAR MONGER: This made the depression. Stop this megalomaniac!

fog627.bsky.social•1 day ago

I can’t wait for this to hit the NHL…forcing all the playoff games to be played in Canada…à la trump’s COVID year.

With the added bonus of pissing off trump’s 𝒎𝒂𝒈𝒂-𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒄 billionaire NHL owners!

NHL ownership:

USA - 22
Canada - 8
USA/Canada - 1
Germany - 1

Teams in USA - 25
Teams in Canada - 7

liamgreybeerd.bsky.social•1 day ago

https://bsky.app/profile/liamgreybeerd.bsky.social/post/3lk4bc3ljv22d

middleparty.bsky.social•1 day ago

Canada can sell steel and aluminum a myriad other places, but no one but Canada can sell hydro electric power to US. tRump is a greedy fuck, trying to bankrupt the US so billionaires can buy up everything. Ta

stephentherry.bsky.social•1 day ago

normr1.bsky.social•1 day ago

Stock market probably going to take another huge hit today

itus.bsky.social•1 day ago

I think Americans should familiarize themselves with Ontario’s Premier, Doug Ford. Trump will get the power turned off completely by the end of this week.

baroda.bsky.social•1 day ago

Well then, doubling the tariff on Canadian electricity to 50% to match seems fair to me. 🇨🇦

yolowinr.bsky.social•17 hours ago

Omfg.... Michigan here here is tRumpf responding to Canada's raising prices on electricity we get from them. He's going to get it all back in April by tariffs. So I'm going to pay more for my electricity and more for everything else tariffs oh my f****** god

suebeedefender.bsky.social•1 day ago

Beer prices are going to hurt red hats in significant numbers.

noirdril1.bsky.social•1 day ago

RIP Pennsylvania.

jonathanscherch.bsky.social•1 day ago

Each day without a plan to oppose P25, and absent a daily press conference to rebut GOP antics, is another day of off-balance Dem damage control.

Make a plan. Run a new play. Envision counter solutions. Make it so.

#makeaplan

danamasse.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Going to see an inflation explosion.

rhinomni.bsky.social•1 day ago

I know Trump doesn’t read, bit perhaps one or two people around him do (one can only hope, right? Even when they pretend they don’t read and secretly do it anyway).
If so, I recommend they read what caused the Great Depression about a century ago, because he is doing everything right to mimic that.

rosso63.bsky.social•1 day ago

He still doesn’t understand tariffs does he? 🤦🏻‍♀️

mlamb.bsky.social•1 day ago

Trump keeps the poking the bear Canada will just shut it off altogether.

libertine1971.bsky.social•1 day ago

Shut that shit off now !!

tynegal.bsky.social•23 hours ago

He's killing industries he hoped to regenerate.

what-if-im-wrong.bsky.social•1 day ago

Because the first amount didn't crash the economy quick enough.
Do you people get it yet?

etk-nv.bsky.social•1 day ago

#Trump wants to intentionally throw us into a #Recession so that the Fed will cut interest rates. #Tariffs are part of the plan - they accelerate the economic decline and put more pressure on the #Fed, which (today) is independent.

#MAGA voted for this.

Don't blame #Canada for protecting itself.

stuzipants.bsky.social•1 day ago

How are Americans on the north east grid going to charge their Teslas?

mjsass.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Legit. How? 😂

noonanrubick.bsky.social•1 day ago

I’ve never cheered against the home team so much in my entire life

fanofwalt.bsky.social•1 day ago

Super. Genius.

marvelgeek1980.bsky.social•1 day ago

What the FUCK will Americans do if he orders an invasion of Canada with his continued threats to our sovereignty ??????

darthfos.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Enjoy your crashed economy for all the stuff you apparently don’t need from Canada.

4animallife.bsky.social•18 hours ago

The orange thug will crash our economy too, especially in my hometown and current city Hamilton, Ontario.

We're Canada's steel capital—it's our lifeblood—with Dofasco, Stelco and related industries here employing ~28,000 Hamiltonians. His tariffs will devastate my city. 😨
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/trump-tariff-1.7480644

darthfos.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Nobody wins - this whole situation is idiotic.

This is all because of a few huge idiots in the White House & their enablers in Congress.

pseudothespian.bsky.social•1 day ago

I guess Canada will do the same….
Trump’s a ‘Jenius’ after all.
#OrangeMoronInChief

didoyle.bsky.social•1 day ago

Such a tough guy🙄

marlabrooklynborn.bsky.social•23 hours ago

We really need to get more Dems in Congress in 2026 so we can seriously either impeach this traitor AGAIN or utilize the 14th Amendment. Then we at least get Hakeem Jeffries as Speaker and we may have to tolerate ol' eyeliner himself as VP for a few years.

sactosteve.bsky.social•1 day ago

He’s just BEGGING to be removed from office.

libertine1971.bsky.social•1 day ago

Either that of tank the country and then impose martial law ??

atlantadem.bsky.social•1 day ago

Need context - the 25% is a surcharge (not tarriff - tarrifs only apply to imports) of electricity going to three states - MN, MI and NY. Trump's steel and aluminum tarrifs impact imports nationwide -

danhalen5150.bsky.social•17 hours ago

It helps the American steel industry greatly!

theresaz.bsky.social•1 day ago

“That should be helpful!” said no one.

stephanieshultz.bsky.social•1 day ago

That’ll be not great for all the natural disaster recovery😞

busterandme.bsky.social•1 day ago

Doubt our hydro and water bombers are coming for the next ones, sorry to our friends but not to our foes.

31337.bsky.social•1 day ago

The US imports 90% of the potash used in farming. 85% of that comes from Canada. Without Canadian potash, American factory agriculture comes to a standstill.

Electricity isn't the only thing we can cut off. #elbowsup

stephentherry.bsky.social•1 day ago

But wait. There's more! You need a lot of electricity to produce aluminum. The USA needs a lot of our aluminum. So it’s impossible for the USA to produce their own aluminum without some of our electricity. Trump essentially guaranteed the American economy will hard crash very soon.

libertine1971.bsky.social•1 day ago

Do it then. See how those Red agricultural states manage without potash !

lifeinthekey.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Thank you for killing Senator Grassley’s farm in advance. Fuck that dude and his future bail out.

lineofbeauty550.bsky.social•1 day ago

I guess you'll either pay more or start manufacturing less. It's a baseball bat to the knees of *US* industries.

predictionmonk.bsky.social•1 day ago

Fascists are such cavemen. They make their own downfall all the easier. Always adding one more front to their wars, those shits.

wanda27.bsky.social•1 day ago

How long will we have to tolerate his sick craziness. We are not a predatory country. We do not take over other nations.
He is destroying the country and he is going to destroy our personal economies .
He is a danger to our lives, our health, our civil tranquility.

ashmueli.bsky.social•1 day ago

Dugin told him to cut his nose to spite his own face, so he had few options but to do so

athenabear2024.bsky.social•16 hours ago

"When an opponent declares, ‘I will not come over to your side,’ I calmly say, ‘Your child belongs to us already.’” — Adolf Hitler (this is how authoritarian regimes seek control through education.)"

ryanmichael80.bsky.social•1 day ago

Doubling tariffs is only going to hurt Americans more.

brutusmaui.bsky.social•1 day ago

The world needs to keep upping their tariffs boycott all American products and communication with America since no one reasonable or sane is in charge now show America they aren’t all there is in the world now the world will turn to China thank republicans for it

thekrakensays.bsky.social•1 day ago

Ontario has said that he’ll just cut the electric to those three states. Is Trump daring him to do it?

libertine1971.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yes I feel he is. But why ??

thekrakensays.bsky.social•1 day ago

It’s a dick measuring contest, and he wants to win. He wants their submission. He’s daring them to cut electric to three blue states.

andrewamster.bsky.social•1 day ago

Given what's happening today, I imagine Quebec will quickly announce a tariff on the electricity they provide the New England states (also blue).

thekrakensays.bsky.social•1 day ago

My Canadian friends on Facebook are all like, “Do something. Make him stop this.”

And everyone is responding, “How? We would if we could.”

andrewamster.bsky.social•1 day ago

Same.
Looks like Quebec tariff might only affect NY and MA. Hydro-Quebec negotiates long-term contracts wit US states and those two are the ones not nailed down???

saintthejase.bsky.social•1 day ago

So much for the second amendment. All those dead kids later and the scenario the gun nuts touted as to why there shouldn’t be a ban is happening.

Then

traceyeb.bsky.social•1 day ago

Ontario doesn't have a supply agreement for electricity w/ NY, MI, and MN; it's not their main supplier of electricity. ON is selling their excess capacity at very low rates to a market where there are other suppliers.

msmilack75.bsky.social•1 day ago

omg

justfairtruth.bsky.social•1 day ago

Tariffs are tax! Trump get revenues over these tariffs to compensate for his extending and expanding tax cut for the rich! Americans have to pay for Trump’s tariffs! Trump doesn’t care! He gets what he needs for his plans!

justfairtruth.bsky.social•23 hours ago

jarofpickles4.bsky.social•1 day ago

He’s a bully who pouts when someone stands up to him.

mariceann.bsky.social•1 day ago

It is a dilemma. Narcissists can't back down.
Their victims have to choose to submit, to resist, or to just not play Chicken and ignore their invitations to conflict. Every threat is an invitation that can be declined. If you choose to engage, you'll regret it. Diplomatic soft power works best.

billymac1962.bsky.social•1 day ago

Keep going, Donald. You fucking idiot.
#ElbowsUp
🇨🇦

dapperdondharshi.bsky.social•1 day ago

The next time someone tells us they want to make something great, let’s get their definition of “great” before they fk everything up.
--John Colins

traceyeb.bsky.social•1 day ago

ON doesn't have a supply agreement for electricity to NY, MI, and MN, meaning it's not their primary supplier. ON generates excess capacity, which they sell at near nothing rates into a market that has other suppliers.

theblueskywolf.bsky.social•1 day ago

Thanks Trump, you just proved 4 things.
1. You hate all Canadians
2. You’re trying to get them to hate us
3. You’re making us believe they’re the enemy like every immigrant here that should “get deported cause they don’t belong here.”
4. Did I mention you hate all Canadians?

4animallife.bsky.social•17 hours ago

The feeling's mutual. We despise him.

theblueskywolf.bsky.social•17 hours ago

As someone from America my feelings are upfront to this fat mango until he’s out of the chair!

screamah.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Ontario needs to cut power exports right fucking now. Even if it’s for a couple days the reservoirs will fill up behind the dams and with higher water levels, will be able to generate even more power. So when things calm down in a few days Ontario can export even more power.

camyintroubles.bsky.social•1 day ago

Lol

kencox.ca•1 day ago

Trump will be lucky if we sell the US *any* steel at any price. The same goes for nickel. Trump has no idea how vicious Canadians are about to become. The US auto industry will be shut down in one week. #ElbowsUp #FuckTrump

alicialou.bsky.social•1 day ago

It’s horrible for us, but I believe 🇨🇦 must be vicious right back to him. Do not give an inch to this sociopath megalomaniac. The folks that voted for him or refused to vote all must suffer. Unfortunately that also includes of us that voted for Harris.