"Our country will flourish and be respected again all over the world. We will be the envy of every nation, and we will not allow ourselves to be taken advantage of any longer. We're going to reclaim our wealth. This is the beginning of Liberation Day in America." –President Trump pic.twitter.com/JB8P51mhSb
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) April 2, 2025
It’s the most concrete effort yet to turn President Donald Trump’s desire to acquire the Danish territory into actionable policy, despite widespread international outrage.
The White House is preparing an estimate of what it would cost the federal government to control Greenland as a territory, according to three people with knowledge of the matter, the most concrete effort yet to turn President Donald Trump’s desire to acquire the Danish island into actionable policy.
While Trump’s demands elicited international outrage and a rebuke from Denmark, White House officials have in recent weeks taken steps to determine the financial ramifications of Greenland becoming a U.S. territory, including the cost of providing government services for its 58,000 residents, the people said.
Sen. Mitch McConnell privately indicated to Sen. Tim Kaine he would back the Virginia Democrat’s resolution to undo President Donald Trump’s Canada tariffs.
Kaine told reporters Wednesday that the former GOP leader told him the day before that he would back Kaine’s resolution, which will get a vote on the Senate floor Wednesday evening. A spokesperson confirmed Kaine’s remarks.
h/t DS
President Trump is set to step into the Rose Garden tomorrow for what may be the most consequential economic announcement of his second term. Markets are bracing. Diplomats are dialing. Pundits are speculating wildly. But no one—not Wall Street, not foreign governments, not even some inside the West Wing—seems to know exactly what will be announced.
This, as it turns out, is part of the design.
Trump has dubbed it Liberation Day—a piece of branding with more substance than cynicism. For weeks, he’s signaled that a sweeping new tariff regime is coming. Twenty percent across the board? A reciprocal system that mirrors foreign rates? Something hybrid and more complex? The ambiguity is not a bug. It’s leverage.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford on Wednesday suggested that Canada would drop its tariffs on U.S. goods if President Donald Trump eased up on his tariffs on Canadian goods.
Every time Donald Trump has mentioned his plan to levy massive tariffs on imports into the US, there has been a widespread assumption that they will be delayed, watered down or rowed back.
Today, he will reveal in the White House Rose Garden not just how serious he is about “the most beautiful word in the dictionary”, but effectively call time on decades of economic globalisation.
And it is still possible that he will do this by launching the equivalent of a salvo of ballistic missiles into the global trading system, with a universal tariff on all imports into the USA.
Happy Liberation Day, America
If a country charges tariffs on American companies trying to do business in that country, and we don’t reciprocate, that’s not free trade, that’s called getting ripped off. pic.twitter.com/LVjhPLZBv3
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) April 2, 2025
Alberta would make a great 51st state. It has a population of 4.8 million and had a gross domestic product of $244.3 billion in 2024. (All numbers here are in U.S. dollars.) This would rank us 27th among the 50 states, just behind South Carolina at $246.3 billion. Over 90% of our economic output is from oil & gas extraction, refining, distribution, and servicing. Alberta has over 37 billion tons of mostly readily accessible coal reserves, the world’s third-largest proven oil reserves, and among the world’s top ten largest natural gas reserves.
Chinese firms invested billions of dollars on Mexican factories to make products for the American market, shipping goods tariff-free under a U.S. trade agreement now in peril
Su Xiuyong moved to Mexico from central China 20 months ago. He doesn’t speak Spanish or English, and finds that he hates the food, but the opportunity was too good to pass up.
Su’s employer, a Shenzhen-based construction company, helped set up Chinese factories south of the U.S.-Mexico border, part of a business boom triggered in 2018 by President Trump’s first round of tariffs on Chinese imports. Su said his firm, Jilian Engineering, can build a small factory in as little as seven months in Mexico.
Chinese companies have kept many goods flowing to the U.S. by manufacturing in Mexico, where products ship to the U.S. tariff-free under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement that Trump negotiated in his first term. Chinese firms have invested billions of dollars in hundreds of Mexican factories that make auto parts, electronics, home appliances, furniture, medical equipment and other products for the American market.
Opponents of a proposed Muslim city in Texas flooded a public meeting Monday in hopes of stopping a controversial Islamic compound from getting necessary permits to begin construction.
For hours, the Collin County Commissioners Court heard dozens of speakers pleading with them to deny the East Plano Islamic Center or EPIC, permits needed to build a city for Muslims that’s meant to be ‘the epicenter of Islam in America’ by organizers.
EPIC, a sprawling house of worship located in Plano, Texas- just north of Dallas- has recently become a target for Gov. Greg Abbott who has accused the mosque of breaking the law, despite no arrests or charges being made public.
I realize plenty of Canadian politicians and pundits have been praising Ontario Premier Doug Ford. Ford threatened to cut off Ontario electricity headed to the U.S. upper Midwest and because of that was granted a face-to-face meeting in Washington, D.C., with Howard Lutnick, President Donald Trump’s commerce secretary and tariff guru.
Border crossing numbers hit a new low in March, with federal agents encountering about 7,000 people entering the U.S. illegally last month, mainly through the San Diego and El Paso sectors.
Compared to March 2024, when 137,000 individuals crossed the southern border illegally, that’s a 94 percent decrease.
Homeland Security officials told the New York Post it’s easy to explain the decline: “the Trump effect.”
A majority of Canadians support cancelling a $19-billion contract to buy American warplanes and instead opting for European alternatives, according to a new poll, as relations between Canada and the United States continue to sour.
A survey by Nanos Research conducted for The Globe and Mail found 62 per cent of Canadians survey support, or somewhat support, scrapping a federal government deal to buy 88 F-35 Lightning planes from U.S. defence contractor Lockheed Martin. It also found 18 per cent oppose, and 3 per cent somewhat oppose, such a measure. Another 17 per cent were undecided.
Donald Trump says tariffs are coming. That message from the US president has been consistent.
But what tariffs and when? Import taxes have come so thick and fast since he took office that it can be hard to keep track.
Trump has already raised duties on Chinese imports, steel, aluminium and some goods from Canada and Mexico. Higher levies on cars are due to go into effect this week.
We’re now waiting for Trump to unveil the details of his plan for a wider set of tariffs, which his team has spent the last few weeks developing.
The White House is calling it “Liberation Day”. So what might we learn on Wednesday?
Karoline Leavitt ahead of Liberation Day tomorrow:
“The president’s historic action tomorrow will improve American competitiveness in every area of industry, reduce our massive trade deficits, and ultimately protect our economic & national security.”
pic.twitter.com/8stvMzCZVT— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) April 1, 2025
‘In the long run, we’re all dead’: Trump allies struggle with trade uncertainty
President Donald Trump is fêting his new tariffs with a Rose Garden “Liberation Day” festival.
Wall Street traders, lawmakers, industry leaders, foreign officials and even some members of the president’s team see only dread.
Trump, at a Wednesday afternoon “Make America Wealthy Again” ceremony, will formally announce a series of new, so-called reciprocal tariffs on U.S.’s global trading partners that he says will restore fairness, free the country from a dependence on foreign goods and stimulate the economy.
Since we no longer share the same ideals of freedom and democracy, we should no long shoulder their burdens.
Monday morning’s edition of the RealClear Politics news aggregator contained a very interesting manifestation of their usual juxtaposition of left vs. right thought pieces. It looked like this…
The articles themselves were no less notable in their approach to the dissipating relationship between a MAGA Revivalist America and a globalist declining Europe.
Many left-wing university faculty members (a redundancy if there ever was one) are rebelling against the Trump administration’s threat to cut federal funding to universities that tolerate antisemitic actions against their Jewish students. They condemned the acting president of Columbia for accepting some of the administration’s conditions for restoring the $400 million that it threatened to cut, and she was forced to resign.
The faculty members are making the absolutist claim that it is always a denial of academic freedom for governments to pressure universities with a cut-off of funding. In making this broad claim, they ignore the lessons of history and the single standard of morality.
