If Donald Trump follows through on his threats to add a 25 percent tariff on all imports from Canada and Mexico, and 10 percent on Chinese imports, it will devastate the American economy in short order.
Besides worsening relations with our three major trading partners, it will cause massive rises in prices on all kinds of goods, such as:
Clothing
Furniture
Household Appliances
Toys
Food
Automobiles
Travel Goods
Smart Phones
It will worse our relations with our neighbors, and destroy the USMCA trade agreements, promoting distrust with both Canada and Mexico, who share thousands of miles of boundaries, and undermine our relationship with China, our leading rival in world affairs.
It will be destructive of international relations, and of American economic progress, which had advanced under Joe Biden, despite the inflation problem.
If Americans voted against the Democrats on the inflation issue, they will get a rude awakening under Donald Trump, as we will have similar situation as we had in the Great Depression due to Herbert Hoover and the Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 1930, and the Panic of 1893 due to Benjamin Harrison and the McKinley Tariff of 1890.
Trump is falsely claiming that Mexico will close its border.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/28/politics/trump-mexican-president-call-tariffs/index.html
Trump wished a “Happy Thanksgiving to all” on his Truth Social platform. Then came the traditional Trump Thanksgiving rant as he went on to write, “Including to the Radical Left Lunatics who have worked so hard to destroy our Country, but who have miserably failed, and will always fail, because their ideas and policies are so hopelessly bad that the great people of our Nation just gave a landslide victory to those who want to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” “Don’t worry, our Country will soon be respected, productive, fair, and strong, and you will be, more than ever before, proud to be an American!” Trump concluded his message with.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-thanksgiving-message-2024_n_6748072fe4b03b6cea3b76ca
While Trump was attacking his enemies in his Thanksgiving message, Biden stressed gratitude.
https://www.axios.com/2024/11/28/trump-biden-thanksgiving-messages