{"id":70386,"date":"2026-07-24T15:53:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T22:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=70386"},"modified":"2026-07-24T15:58:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T22:58:41","slug":"huh-stable-genius-trump-threatens-to-tariff-mexico-for-its-lettuce-and-canada-for-its-smoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=70386","title":{"rendered":"HUH? Stable Genius Trump Threatens to Tariff Mexico for its Lettuce and Canada for its Smoke"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the midst of an economic downturn that has most Americans struggling to afford basic necessities such as gas, groceries, healthcare, housing, etc., the current occupier of the White House, Donald Trump, is working diligently to make things even worse.<\/p>\n

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Typically, Trump is demonstrating that he couldn’t care less about the hardships that are burdening the American people. But he is also ignoring the harm he’s causing to the electoral prospects of his Republican confederates, whose looming defeats will contribute to his becoming the lamest of ducks for the last two years of his term.<\/p>\n

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So how is Trump responding to the economic crises that he faces as the midterm elections approach? He’s persisting with, and even escalating, his reckless, illegal, and expensive war against Iran. And on top of that, he’s threatening America’s allies with expanding his inflationary tariffs, which will result in even higher prices for American consumers.<\/p>\n

On Friday morning Trump announced that he is increasing tariffs<\/a><\/strong> on our Europe Union trading partners, supposedly because they levied fines on American technology companies for violations of EU laws. That’s a profoundly stupid way to react to the judicial rulings by foreign courts against private corporations. But it wasn’t the stupidest thing that Trump did Friday morning. Have a listen to the following exchange with Peter Doocy of Fox News…<\/p>\n

Doocy:<\/strong> There’s a nasty parasite that is giving people in nine states explosive diarrhea. When is it gonna be safe to eat lettuce again.
\nTrump:<\/strong> I don’t know. I haven’t thought about it. First time I’ve been asked that question. Are you eating a lot of lettuce recently?
\nDoocy:<\/strong> There’s this food coming in, I guess from Mexico. It’s tainted. It’s making a lot of people sick. That is the CDC’s terminology.
\nTrump:<\/strong> I think what it is, we’re gonna put a major tariff on Mexico because of the lettuce, and we’re gonna put a big tariff on Canada because of the smoke.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Q: When is it going to be safe to eat lettuce again?Trump: I don't know. I haven't thought about it. There's this, there's this food coming in, I guess. From Mexico. We're gonna put a major tariff on Mexico because of the lettuce, and we're gonna put a big tariff on Canada because of the smoke.<\/p>\n

— Headquarters (@headquartersnews.bsky.social)<\/a> 2026-07-24T19:47:42.284Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n