Trump says Canada will face very serious tariffs and Gulf of Mexico will be renamed Gulf of America
President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday he plans to order “very serious tariffs” against Canada and Mexico — and that he will rechristen the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.Canada is subsidized to the tune of about $200 billion a year, plus other things.They don’t essentially have a military.
They have a very small military.They rely on our military.
It’s all fine, but they got to pay for that,” Trump said during a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla.“I have so many great friends.One of them is the great one, [hockey player] Wayne Gretzky.
I said, ‘Run for prime minister.You’ll win.
It’ll take two seconds.’ But he said, ‘Well, am I going to run for prime minister or governor?'”Trump has for weeks jokingly suggested that Canada become the 51st state, while more seriously pressing for the US to acquire Greenland from Denmark and suggesting the US may need to reassert control of the Panama Canal, topics he also revisited in his remarks.“We’re going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, which has a beautiful ring.That covers a lot of territory, the Gulf of America.
What a beautiful name.And it’s appropriate,” Trump declared.
“Mexico has to stop allowing millions of people to pour into our country.They can stop them, and we’re going to put very serious tariffs on Mexico and Canada, because Canada, they come through Canada too, and the drugs that are coming through are at record numbers.”Trump threatened tariffs against Canada and Mexico shortly after winning the Nov.
5 election, citing illegal immigration and illicit fentanyl imports.Some observers speculated that he was making the threat as a bargaining tactic, and the leaders of both countries quickly pledged to work with the incoming commander in chief.The president-elect spoke as his son, Donald Trump Jr., visited Greenland as part of his attempt to woo the island’s 56,000 residents to break with Denmark...