Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Sunday retweeted a post from White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt that essentially declared President Donald Trump’s absolute victory in the showdown over Colombian deportees. Petro deleted his retweet a few hours later.
Democrats have often rehashed tired arguments against President Donald Trump’s use of tariffs to bring about free trade and revitalize America’s economy. Here are some of the most egregious examples.
Colombia announced late on Sunday that it would send Foreign Minister Luis Gilberto Murillo and an emergency delegation to Washington.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro backed down on his declaration that he would not accept deportation flights from the United States. He now says he will send his presidential plane to personally pick up the deported migrants, a U.S. official with knowledge on the matter told Breitbart News.
President Donald Trump smacked Colombia with an emergency 25 percent tariff and other sanctions after the nation refused two repatriation flights. Colombia reversed its pledge to accept deportation flights from the United States.
President Donald Trump promised tariffs on all products made outside the United States on Thursday, speaking virtually before Klaus Scwhab’s World Economic Forum (WEF) in Switzerland.
The Conservative Party of Canada demanded on Tuesday that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reopen Parliament for an emergency session to address the impending threat of American tariffs under President Donald Trump.
Shortly after delivering his inauguration address on Monday, President Donald Trump said 25-percent tariffs on goods from Canada and Mexico could be imposed as soon as February 1.
Former Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland penned a somewhat humorous, but also rather menacing, op-ed for the Washington Post on Sunday in which she warned incoming President Donald Trump not to “doubt Canada’s resolve.”
During an interview with Bloomberg aired on Thursday’s “Balance of Power,” White House Council of Economic Advisers Chair Jared Bernstein acknowledged that there wasn’t an inflation spike caused by tariffs in the first Trump administration, but argued that things in 2025
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum introduced an economic plan on Monday that was seemingly tailored to avoid U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s threatened tariffs by reducing imports from China.
President-elect Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that he would create the “External Revenue Service” on the first day of his administration “to collect our Tariffs, Duties, and all Revenue that come from Foreign sources.”
Canadian Liberals are scrambling to fill the power vacuum left by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s resignation, using a great deal of tough talk intended to convince voters that the party can stand up to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in a potential tariff and border security conflict.
China’s General Administration of Customs announced on Monday that exports for 2024 totaled $3.58 trillion, while imports were $2.59 trillion, creating a $990 billion trade surplus that easily surpassed the previous record of $838 billion in 2022.
President-elect Donald Trump is promising “very serious tariffs” on Canada, as well as Mexico, as part of a broader economic nationalist agenda to recoup losses from trade deficits.
During an interview with C-SPAN on Friday, Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) stated that there are tariffs that need to be put on China and “manufacturing is an industry that is a national economic and national security issue and I will
Xi Jinping urged his people to “work together to steadily improve social undertakings and governance” during his New Year’s Eve address.
Far-left President of Colombia Gustavo Petro warned President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday that he will side with neighboring Panama “until the last consequences” should the United States take control of the Panama Canal.
Hungary is “confident” that President Donald Trump’s return to office will mend the strained U.S.-Hungary relations under the Biden administration, particularly on economic and strategic issues.
Premier of Ontario Doug Ford said Tuesday on CNN’s “OutFront” that if President-elect Donald Trump imposes tariffs on Canada, the Canadians will have to use their economic tools to counter them, which will cause “pain” on both sides of the border.
Tariffs planned by President-Elect Donald Trump next year will not spike inflation, incoming trade advisor Peter Navarro says.
Trump’s tariffs, far from being the Grinch, may well be the unseen Santa, bringing the gift of a healthier trading system to the good little boys and girls of the world.
President-elect Donald Trump trolled Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday by calling him “Governor” of the “Great State of Canada.”
China’s premier automakers are flooding Mexico with cheap Electric Vehicles (EVs) in the hopes of selling in the United States next.
The outlines of a Republican legislative agenda for Trump’s second term are beginning to take shape, but a key decision could send troubling signals to businesses and consumers.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) visited the United States-Mexico border on Thursday to repeat big business talking points about tariffs and President-elect Donald Trump’s plans to deport millions of illegal aliens with no legal right to be in the U.S.
During an interview with ABC News on Thursday, Rep. Suzan DelBene (D-WA) declared that “unilateral tariffs that Trump is talking about are going to be taxes on American consumers.” But refused to say if President Joe Biden was wrong to
Like so much economic analysis from the establishment, the Fed study on tariffs arrives with breathless findings of calamity, but it doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.
China expects fellow members of the BRICS economic bloc to push back against President-elect Donald Trump’s tariff threats.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” Chicago Federal Reserve Bank President Austan Goolsbee stated that the Federal Reserve isn’t going to weigh in on tariffs, but “you’re never going to hear me say good things about tariffs. If they serve
Canadian Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre said he felt “badly” watching leftist Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meet Donald Trump.
Prominent South Africans reacted angrily on Sunday to President-elect Donald Trump’s threat to impose 100% tariffs on the BRICS countries if they tried to create an alternative to the U.S. dollar as the global reserve and trade currency.
President-elect Donald Trump threatened BRICS countries with a 100 percent tariff if they tried to “create a new BRICS Currency” or to support another currency to “replace” the U.S. dollar.
Liberal Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrived in Palm Beach, Florida, on Friday evening to meet with President-elect Donald Trump, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) reported.
President-elect Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that the President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, has agreed to halt migration into the United States after a recent conversation.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “The Record,” Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R) said that tariffs on Canada or Mexico would result in some pain on American companies in addition to some pain on Canadian and Mexican companies, but
The leaders of Canada’s Conservative Party and of the leftist New Democratic Party (NDP) issued remarks in rare agreement on Tuesday condemning Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for not taking American President-elect Donald Trump’s threat of imposing a 25-percent tariff on Canadian goods seriously.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) responded to President-Elect Donald Trump’s tariff threat by stating that he believes it’s a threat to force negotiations, but doing so is “dangerous” because
On Tuesday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “The Hill,” Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) stated that while Mexico has made a strong effort, it can do “much, much, much more stopping fentanyl and stopping people from coming” into the U.S. and that President-Elect
Donald Trump has been very clear that he plans to use tariffs as a tool to pursue U.S. geopolitical interests.
