Trade war with Mexico, Canada, and China. President Trump announces new tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods. Mexico agrees to send 10,000 troops to the northern border to fight the 25% tariffs Trump is imposing on them.
00:00:00.000Hello everybody, I'm John Fawcett with This Great America Show, Midday Update for Monday, February 3rd.
00:00:05.720Hope you folks all had a great weekend. Your week's off to a great start.
00:00:09.540Promises made, promises kept. The trade wars are underway.
00:00:13.680Well, it's not really a trade war, but that's what the Marxist Dems want you to think when they broadcast on their mainstream Marxist networks.
00:00:21.180We're in a trade war. We're in a trade war with Mexico and Canada and China.
00:00:25.580And that's not entirely true. President Trump enacting his tariffs on Saturday.
00:00:32.020They go into effect tomorrow, or actually tonight at midnight.
00:00:35.360Markets didn't react too well to them at the open this morning, but since rebounding, Dow is in the green.
00:00:41.380NASDAQ down slightly and the S&P also down slightly, but they've come back a long way.
00:00:45.560Some of the indices down multiple hundred points.
00:00:49.100So, Canada is not relenting. Justin Trudeau wants to be the big tough guy in the race.
00:00:54.180He's pledging not to buy any American-made bourbon or whiskey or anything that Americans make.
00:01:00.180One province in Canada actually canceling an order of Starlinks or $100 million.
00:01:05.000That's fine. They can go without the internet. That's on them. Joke's on them.
00:01:09.460But what President Trump is simply asking these countries to do is to just stop the inflow of migrants at their border with America.
00:01:18.440Is that too much to ask for? Well, if you ask Justin Trudeau, it's too much to ask for.
00:01:23.760He wants to be the dictator and savior of the day, the big shot.
00:01:28.240Well, if he were to succeed against President Trump, he'd be the first person, at least in my lifetime, to succeed against President Trump.
00:01:35.300But in recent years, at least, I don't see Trudeau as the man who's going to go ahead and do that.
00:01:41.440We saw what President Trump did to those 16 Republicans on the stage in 2016 and everyone else who came against him in 2020 and then 2024.
00:01:50.920It doesn't work out too well for these folks.
00:01:52.940So good luck to Trudeau and may the best man win or woman or, you know, whatever.
00:01:59.780We don't want to assume what Justin Trudeau is.
00:02:06.880The tariffs were supposed to go to Mexico as well, but Scheinbaum waving the white flag.
00:02:13.100Claudia Scheinbaum agreed to send 10,000 troops to its northern border as one of the ways to stop the 25% tariff on them.
00:02:20.520The concession comes days after grandstanding by the Mexican president who publicly claimed she would stand up for her country's sovereignty.
00:02:45.960Now it's going to take, you know, the Mexican government to go ahead and help us out here if they are good people.
00:02:52.920Now, if they don't want to help us, it tells you all you need to know.
00:02:56.140So, President Trump not only going after Mexico, Canada, and China.
00:03:01.940President Trump, in a recent interview aboard Air Force One, says the United States has a large trade deficit with the United Kingdom, but it can be worked out amicably.
00:03:11.100But the European Union's atrocity is a whole different ballgame.
00:03:14.460President Trump reportedly set to start looking at what they can do to impose some maybe tariffs, we'll call them, on the European Union and stop them from taking advantage of this country.
00:03:25.400It's nice to see a president who has America's best interest as his interest.
00:03:34.340We haven't seen it, certainly, for the last four years.
00:03:36.480So, it's nice to see that President Trump is doing the Lord's work for us.
00:03:42.080And President Trump making good on one of his campaign promises to shut down one of the biggest criminal organizations in America.
00:03:48.500That's the U.S. Agency for International Development, USAID.
00:03:52.580The employees who worked there got a little bit of a, you know, funny for some, not so funny for others, email on Sunday night.
00:03:59.940Quote, at the direction of the agency's leadership, who's now headed by Marco Rubio, at the direction of the agency's leadership, the USAID headquarters at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C., will be closed to agency personnel on Monday, February 3rd, 2025.