“Maybe we can avoid tariffs if we meet him where he’s at and put some serious actions on the table and we give the president a win.”
She had days earlier suggested that Canada buy more U.S. goods, so that maybe Trump would scrap the tariff idea.
A graph circulating on social media shows the disparity in drug problems in the US for northern vs southern borders.

The data comes from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Data Portal, which at time of writing indicates that in 2024 the U.S. seized 21,889 lbs of fentanyl… with only 43 lbs of that seized at the “Northern Border” (aka Canada). Less than 0.2%.
Possible results of this information – you might disbelieve that the tariffs have anything to do with drugs. Maybe it’s all because he thinks he can use America’s economic might to squeeze all other countries and make them “rich as hell”. Maybe the drug excuse was pulled from the same place he pulled his “national security” excuse to implement his failed tariffs the first time he was president in 2018. Maybe he has some delusion that he can rule over a United States that other countries pay to run.