Trump Wants to Bomb Mexico - The Wednesday AM Quickie 4/9/25

By Corey Pein — Apr 9, 2025

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THE BIG NEWS

Drone Strikes on Mexico? Donald Trump May Turn Out to Be an Even Bigger Warmonger Than George W. Bush

On top of threatening to invade Panama and Greenland, "annex" Canada, and "take over" Gaza while abandoning the defense of Europe, the Trump administration is now floating a simultaneous war with Mexico. NBC News reports that White House, Defense Department and US intelligence officials are "considering launching drone strikes on drug cartels in Mexico," with or without the cooperation of the Mexican government. Responding to the news, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum affirmed yesterday that "We do not agree with any kind of intervention or interference."

Experts point out that bombing Mexico would accomplish nothing, apart from stoking the most brutal impulses of Trump and his advisers, and may even strengthen the cartels' position. Meanwhile, under questioning by Senate Democrats, top Pentagon for special operations official Colby Jenkins declared that even though the White House has designated Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, the US military does not have the authority to launch drone strikes inside Mexico. There is also the small matter that, as NBC observes, unprovoked US drone strikes on Mexico "would arguably violate international law."

There seems to be no limit to Republican warmongering. The Miami Herald reported this week that the Venezuelan military claims to have uncovered a "US plot to fabricate an incident at an ExxonMobil offshore platform in the contested waters between Venezuela and Guyana to justify an armed conflict." The military "statement came a day after Vice President Delcy Rodríguez accused the United States, the Guyanese government, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, and Erik Prince — founder of the private military firm Blackwater — of conspiring to launch a military operation against Venezuela." Who knows if it's true, but you can't give this bunch the benefit of the doubt!

Finally, the Washington City Paper and the Washington Post report that Trump may be getting a long-sought birthday wish this June, with an old-fashioned imperialist-style military parade through Washington, DC, complete with US Army parachutists jumping out of planes and landing on the National Mall to entertain the great big special boy. For as famously squeamish as Trump is, he sure does seem to get off on the idea of other men inflicting violence on his behalf. As MR discussed this week, he's also juicing the military budget. "Trump's anti-war message" was always a lie, but pray he doesn't make it an even more obvious one.

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Prescription Drug Prices Likely to Spike as Trump Announces 'Major' New Tariff

Donald Trump nearly doubled the tariff he imposed on imports from China to 104 percent, effective today, after Beijing officials announced they would retaliate to Trump's trade war with their own tax of 34 percent on US imports. China's leaders are betting they can outlast the US in a trade war, the Washington Post reports, and may further retaliate by placing "sanctions on US companies operating in China and restricting US. access to key materials needed to make high-tech products, including medical equipment and nuclear reactors." Many countries affected by Trump's blanket global tariffs have contacted the White House to make a deal, just as Trump claims he wanted to happen, only to be met with silence.

The business world remains baffled at Trump's erratic economic policies, which have caused growing nervousness among Republicans and prompted MAGA oligarch Elon Musk to yesterday call White House trade adviser Peter Navarro a "moron." GOP pollster Whit Ayres tells Politico that "higher prices and slower growth are exactly the opposite of what Americans voted for." But Trump insisted yesterday that "I know what the hell I'm doing," before announcing "a major tariff on pharmaceuticals." Just in time for Republican cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid!

Disappearances: Trump Wants to Deport US Citizens to El Salvador Torture Prisons, White House Confirms

Homeland Security Orders 936,500 Legal Migrants to Self-Deport "It's time for you to abandon the United States," says the email Trump officials sent to many thousands of families from Honduras, El Salvador, and Mexico who entered the US legally on a temporary basis using the Biden administration's CBP One app. via the Associated Press.
ICE Plans to Spend a Whopping $45 Billion to Build Concentration Camps for Migrants "'This is DHS envisioning and getting ready to unroll — if it gets the money — an entirely new way of imprisoning immigrants in the U.S.,' said Heidi Altman, the vice president for policy at the National Immigration Law Center." via the New York Times.
Acting IRS Commissioner to Resign Over Illegal Plan to Share Taxpayer Data with Homeland Security In addition to violating privacy laws, this foolish and oppressive new policy will only discourage undocumented Americans from paying taxes. via the AP and the Washington Post.
Louisiana Immigration Judge Says He May Release Mahmoud Khalil on Friday "We will be reunited soon. Until then, I will continue to fight for you, for us and for our family," writes the detained student activist's wife, Noor Abdalla, who is due to give birth this month. "I have no doubt that, when you are finally released, you will raise your hands in the air, chanting: 'Free Palestine.'" via the AP and the Guardian.

QUICKEST QUICKIES

Trump Orders Will Bail Out Climate-Killing Coal Industry to Power AI Boondoggles "What's next, a mandate that Americans must commute by horse and buggy?" quips Kit Kennedy of the Natural Resources Defense Council. via the New York Times, NBC News, and the Associated Press.
New Jersey Palestinian Community Denounces Israeli Killing of Teen US Citizen in West Bank Meanwhile in the town Turmus Aya, hundreds gathered to mourn Amer Rabee, the 14-year-old Palestinian American shot and killed by Israeli forces on Sunday; they also shot and wounded two others, including Rabee's friend Ayoub Jabara, 15, who is also a US citizen. via the New York Times and the Washington Post.
Report: Russia Orchestrated Terror Attacks in Germany By Rejected Asylum Seekers Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says soldiers have captured two Chinese mercenaries fighting for Russia, and there may be "a few hundred" more. via the Telegraph and the Guardian.
Trump Judge Orders White House to Let AP Reporters Back in After Banning the Agency for Refusing to Call It the 'Gulf of America' Meanwhile, Trump spokespeople have begun refusing to respond to journalists who list their preferred pronouns in their email signatures. via the AP and the New York Times.

SOME NUMBER

30 percent

That's how much calls to the Social Security Administration are up so far this year as the Trump administration closes dozens of field offices and fires thousands of staff, including a cut of at least 50 percent to tech support, the New York Times reports. On Monday, the agency plans to cancel phone support services for people filing for retirement and survivor benefits, forcing them to file online or visit an office, where the lines of frustrated beneficiaries are growing longer and longer.

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PARTING WORDS

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