In both of his presidential terms, Donald Trump has taken the position that loyalty to him is paramount, even from people—judges, senators of his own party, the director of the FBI—who don’t work for him directly. That continued this week when Trump got angry on Truth Social late at night at some Republican senators who had criticized his push for new tariffs.
This week, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) introduced a resolution that would block Trump’s tariffs on Canada while also terminating the national emergency that Trump declared in February. Four Republican senators, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), supported Kaine’s resolution.
Sen. Paul further disagreed with the president’s approach in a Tuesday radio interview, as The Hill reported.
“International trade since World War II has made us phenomenally rich. President Trump paints it another way,” Paul said on John Catsimatidis’ radio show. “He says, ‘We’ve been taken advantage of.’ But I really strongly disagree because trade has made us so rich and really has made the world a better place. The more we trade … the less we fight.”
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Per The Daily Beast, Trump reacted with less than happiness.
“Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Rand Paul, also of Kentucky, will hopefully get on the Republican bandwagon, for a change, and fight the Democrats wild and flagrant push to not penalize Canada for the sale, into our Country, of large amounts of Fentanyl, by Tariffing the value of this horrible and deadly drug in order to make it more costly to distribute and buy,” Trump said on Truth Social late Tuesday night.
The tariffs on Canada are not on fentanyl itself.
Trump did note, accurately, that Kaine’s resolution will not become law.
“They are playing with the lives of the American people and right into the hands of the Radical Left Democrats and Drug Cartels. The Senate Bill is just a ploy of the Dems to show and expose the weakness of certain Republicans, namely these four, in that it is not going anywhere because the House will never approve it, and I, as your President, will never sign it,” the president said on Truth Social.
Trump has declared April 2 “liberation day” and is expected to announce sweeping new tariffs on various goods from different countries.
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