February 3, 2025
Donald Trump caved before the tariffs that he promised against Mexico even took effect. He took to true social today writing…
” I just spoke with President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico. It was a very friendly conversation wherein she agreed to immediately supply 10,000 Mexican soldiers on the border separating Mexico and the United States. These soldiers will be specifically designed to stop the flow of fentanyl and illegal immigrants into our country we further agreed to immediately pause the anticipated tariffs for a 1-month period during which we will have negotiations headed up by Secretary of State Marco Rubio Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessant and Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick and high level representatives of Mexico I look forward to participating in these negotiations with President Claudia Sheinbaum as we attempt to achieve a deal between our two countries.”
In other words, this was Donald Trump noticing that the stock market was tanking and noticing that the headlines were terrible and walking back his tough talk about imposing tariffs. So now he claims that he agreed with the President of Mexico to send soldiers at the border. What a joke!
Guess What? That is the EXACT same deal that Biden secured in 2021 literally, according to AP, according to Bidens first White House Secretary Jen Psaki. She claimed Mexico will maintain a deployment of about 10,000 troops while Guatemala has surged 1500 police and military personnel to its Southern border and Honduras deployed 7,000 police and military to its border to dispense a large contingent of migrants there. Guatemala will also set up 12 checkpoints along the migratory route through the country.
Is Trump doing a fraction of that, or is there just border Troops between the US and Mexico?
Ok, we’ve got 10,000 Mexican troops at the border to stop Mexicans from getting into the US illegally which Trump presumes is going to stem the flow of fentanyl into this country. That’s not going to have a huge impact on fentanyl according to a right-wing think tank in 2021. US citizens were 86% of convicted fentanyl drug traffickers, ten times greater than convictions of illegal immigrants for the same offense. Over 90% of fentanyl seizures occur at legal crossing points or interior vehicle checkpoints, not on illegal migration routes so US citizens who are subject to less scrutiny when crossing legally are the best smugglers.
The location of smuggling makes sense because hard drugs at ports of entry are about 97% less likely to be stopped than our people crossing illegally between them. Just 0.02% of the people arrested by border patrol for crossing illegally possessed any fentanyl whatsoever. In other words, we’ve beefed up security across the US- Mexico border to account for the 0.02% of fentanyl that isn’t coming through ports of entry or via American citizens who again are less subject to scrutiny but then again, it’s not like we suffered too much collateral damage here, right?
Well, the stock market did act poorly but who cares about stocks, right? According to Trump, this is about respect. He will never be concerned about your pocketbook, only his and his rich friends. He promised the world would respect us again later. Well, they surely won’t respect him now, after he crashed there markets today. The world thinks Trump is stupid and honestly, he is. They are laughing. His pattern of insane threats of tariffs is dominating the news cycle which is what he wants. But it puts the US economy at risk as markets prepare to freefall. So, Trump pulls back, and takes credit as he claims he worked a deal with the Mexican president. Let’s see how long it is before he caves in to Canada.