Is Trump trying to punish Canada for the wildfires? Yesterday, the president signed an order imposing a 50 percent tariff on Canada, saying that our neighbor up north wrongly discriminated against three American industries: cars, dairy, and booze.
This seems like not only a bad idea but possibly a fake justification. Wildfire smoke has recently migrated across much of the Midwest and Northeast of the United States, forcing us indoors during summertime. My hunch is that Trump is possibly trying to punish Canada for its poor wildfire management that's been pissing Americans off—for multiple summers in a row, now—and this tracks, given that Trump met with Canada's prime minister at the FIFA World Cup this past weekend and told him to get those fires under control. (Senior administration officials who spoke to Semafor claim these tariffs are not related to the fires.)
