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Trump Hits Canada with Big Tariff for Backing Palestine - The Friday AM Quickie 8/1/25

By Corey Pein —

The only thing I want hear from Joe Biden and Kamala Harris right now is an endorsement of Zohran Mamdani for mayor of New York City. I'm out, Whitney's back Monday. - Corey

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THE BIG NEWS

Another Round of Tariffs Sow Global Economic Chaos

Donald "TACO" Trump seems determined to show that he won't Always Chicken Out when it comes to waging his slapdash, wildly destructive global trade war. He signed an executive order last night raising tariffs on almost every significant US trading partner:

And on and on. Mexico somehow won a 90-day reprieve pending further "negotiations." Lesotho, an African country "nobody has ever heard of," according to Trump, has already declared a state of disaster in response to US tariffs that are devastating its largest private employer, the garment industry. Although the 50 percent tariffs are on pause, the Wall Street Journal reports, "orders have dried up, production lines have shut down and workers have been sent home," many now forced to live on handouts.

Trump's lackeys are hailing the latest tariffs as embodying "a new system of trade." Economic analysts aren't convinced, calling the "carelessly constructed" policy a "growth-sapping" threat to American prosperity. Federal appeals court judges may soon conclude the tariffs are also illegal and outside Trump's authority. Even Congressional Republicans aren't convinced.

The thinking behind all this remains a mystery. As Bloomberg News reports, more than $1 trillion in import products have been exempted from Trump's tariffs without explanation. Some exempted "including coral and asbestos, appear to have been awarded without any rhyme or reason," but in other cases, carve-outs were made following "direct appeals from executives," with those having donated to Republicans having better luck. Would it be so surprising to learn that Trump upended the global economy simply to create more opportunities for personal profit?

Gaza Genocide: Children Who Survive Starvation May Never Recover

  • Trump Envoy Steve Witkoff and Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee to Visit Phony Aid Sites in Gaza Today More than 1,000 hungry Palestinians have been killed since May at the GHF-run food distribution sites; the White House claims Witkoff and Huckabee will "secure a plan to deliver more food." via the Washington Post and Politico.
  • GHF Whistleblower Anthony Aguilar Describes Atrocities at Aid Sites 'Designed as Death Traps' Lt. Col. Anthony Aguilar, who a 25-year veteran of the US Army Special Forces, walked away from a lucrative contract with the US- and Israeli-backed "aid" outfit to speak out about the horrors in Gaza "because nothing is going to buy my soul." via HuffPost, Al Jazeera, and Drop Site News.
  • American Mercenaries Are Only One Facet of War Crime Profiteering A new United Nations report reveals how US corporate entities have profited in the billions of dollars from "Israel's economy of illegal occupation, apartheid and now, genocide." via Responsible Statecraft and the Guardian.
  • Israel Increasingly Isolated as US Jews Protest for Palestinian Rights More than two dozen rabbis were arrested on Tuesday in the office of Senate Majority Leader John Thune while supporting a measure backed by more than half of the Democratic caucus to halt arms sales to Israel. via the AP, the New York Times, and Al Jazeera.

Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib Rep the US at Mexico City Solidarity Confab

In El Salvador, the right-wing ruling party approved constitutional changes that will allow self-described dictator and gulag builder Nayib Bukele to extend his presidency indefinitely. In Chile, a conservative presidential candidate vowing a security crackdown is polling ahead of the center-left incumbent, Gabriel Boric. And the center of empire, the US, is in thrall to a "classic 20th-century tinpot dictator," Donald Trump. But opponents to authoritarianism aren't sitting idle. As the Los Angeles Times reports, leftist leaders from two continents are gathering today in Mexico City for a three-day Panamerican Congress to talk about how to build equality, prosperity, solidarity, and sovereignty in the face of a resurgent far right. There will be no representatives from Venezuela, Nicaragua, or Cuba, "countries with leftist leaders who have taken hard authoritarian turns." The US delegates include Squad Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib. Let's hope this hemispheric brainstorm produces some creative solutions.

QUICKEST QUICKIES

  • Zelenskyy Signs Anti-Corruption Bill in Response to Street Protests By Ukrainians and Concerns from European Allies Meanwhile, a bipartisan Senate panel approved $800 million in long-term military aid to Ukraine yesterday after Donald Trump changed his mind again about which country to support in Russia's war. via the Associated Press and the Washington Post.
  • Virginia Giuffre's Family Says She Wanted Epstein Files Released Tood Blanche, the DOJ No. 2 who interviewed Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell in prison last month "to try and execute a corrupt cover-up," made more than $9.2 million between April 2023 and December 2024 while working as Donald Trump's personal lawyer. via NBC News, the Washington Post, and HuffPost.
  • Kash Patel's 26-Year-Old Girlfriend Denies She Is a Spy Sent to Compromise Him Arkansas-raised, Swiss-educated country singer and PragerU content creator Alexis Wilkins met the 45-year-old FBI Director "a little over two and a half years ago" at a friend's house party in Nashville, Tennessee. via the Daily Beast and the Megyn Kelly Show.
  • Democratic Legislators in California, New York, Illinois, and Massachusetts Seek to Ban ICE Goons from Hiding Their Faces Meanwhile, the Pentagon yesterday ordered the withdrawal of another 1,350 National Guard members from Los Angeles, leaving only 250 deployed to support la migra. via Politico, the AP, and ProPublica.

SOME NUMBER

$400 billion

That's how much Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft will spend this year on so-called artificial intelligence projects, according to the Wall Street Journal. The "shockingly high" capital expenditures on AI are intended to "buy them more time with investors" to show that AI chatbots are actually useful and profitable, one analyst tells Reuters. The racks of computers in AI data centers consume "at least 10 times as much power as regular web servers," the Financial Times reports, sucking up power and water at an appalling rate. "It's almost like a mass hallucination where everyone is on the same wavelength that we need more data centers without actually questioning why," AI and climate expert Sasha Luccioni tells the FT.

ON THE SHOW TODAY

8/1: Happy Friday! Today's guest will be Krystal Ball, political commentator, author, and co-host of Breaking Points for a wrap-up of the week's news.

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PARTING WORDS

"Is this going to be a White House ballroom sponsored by Carl's Jr.?"

-- Democratic Rep. Mark Pocan of Wisconsin, speaking to NBC News yesterday about Donald Trump's plan to add a $200 million, 90,000-square foot ballroom to the East Wing of the White House. It will supposedly be funded entirely through private "donations," opening yet another door for bribery in the country's highest executive office. Meanwhile, the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History removed references to Trump's two impeachments from an exhibit following pressure from the White House.

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