𝗪𝗛𝗜𝗟𝗘 𝗣𝗥𝗜𝗠𝗘 𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗥 𝗧𝗥𝗨𝗗𝗘𝗔𝗨 𝗜𝗦 𝗣𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗧𝗥𝗨𝗠𝗣'𝗦 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗣𝗢𝗦𝗘𝗗 𝗧𝗔𝗥𝗜𝗙𝗙, 𝗖𝗔𝗡𝗔𝗗𝗔 𝗛𝗢𝗟𝗗𝗦 𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗖𝗔𝗥𝗗𝗦

President-Elect Trump, Prime Minister Trudeau

For the second time in eight years, Trump will be inheriting a thriving economy from a Democratic President, yet seems bound and determined to wreck that economy with poorly-thought-out tariffs.

Canadian government officials, including Prime Minister Trudeau, have seemed reasoned, nonhysterical, dealing with President-Elect Trump's foolish tariff notions.

They realize something that escapes Trump, that they hold all the cards in this transaction as Canada currently supplies the U.S. with 60% of its crude oil.  Also, 99% of Canada's exported natural gas goes to the U.S., 2.99 trillion cubic feet in 2022.

Canada also sells the U.S. annually 52 terawatt-hours of electricity, large parts of the power grid of New York, Vermont and Maine, power that reaches 30 states in total.

And Trump wants to add an extra 25% to all of that for U.S. consumers to pay?  Someone needs to get through Trump's thick noggin to explain to him how tariffs work.

To be sure, Trump's proposed tariffs would wreck havoc with the Canadian economy, but also do considerable damage to the U.S. economy, spiking inflation, costing jobs and wages.

While Trump's first term included cabinet members that could talk him down from outlandish notions, this time around he's going totally for "yes" men, sychophants, without the knowledge or experience to push back on his uninformed foolishness.